NATO Summit Trump
FILE - President Donald Trump speaks during a media conference at the end of the NATO summit as Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listen in The Hague, Netherlands, June 25, 2025.
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President Donald Trump will be heading to Ankara, Turkey, for the annual NATO summit. Last year, he pushed NATO allies to spend more on defense. This year, his mission is to try to enforce those pledges. He's long aired grievances that the U.S. spends more on defense relative to European partners. He leaves Monday evening, Trump plans to meet with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during the summit to talk about Kyiv's war with Russia. The summit comes as Trump's team pushes for NATO members to make even bigger changes that would allow the U.S. to turn its attention from Europe to other parts of the globe.
President Donald Trump is responding to global outrage over his intervention with FIFA during the World Cup. The president said he didn’t initially know what a red card was or what its consequences were, but when he learned it could keep a star U.S. forward out of Monday’s knockout match against Belgium, he felt compelled to call FIFA president Gianni Infantino asking for a review. Belgium said it's appealing the suspension of the penalty. Infantino’s predecessor Sepp Blatter said “red cards are not overturned by political phone calls. They are overturned by rules, evidence and independent bodies.” Norway’s coach called the scandal “bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.”
The White House says President Trump plans to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa.
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