The United States president is said to have presented the mocked up bill to Chancellor Angela Merkel during her recent visit to Washington.

He apparently came up with the number after asking an aide to total up how much Germany had fallen below the agreed 2% GDP it was meant to pay yearly since 2002.

Mr Trump of course added interest and the total it came to was £300bn, according to the Times.
The number was an estimation of what Germany may have failed to contribute.

The European nation and Nato were reportedly not happy about the pretend bill.

‘The concept behind putting out such demands is to intimidate the other side, but the Chancellor took it calmly and will not respond to such provocations,’ an unnamed German minister said:

The Times also said a source told them Mrs Merkel had ‘ignored the provocation’.

German defence minister Ursula Von der Leyen added: ‘There is no debt account at Nato.

‘Defence spending also goes into UN peacekeeping missions, into our European missions and into our contribution to the fight against [Isis] terrorism.’

UK is one of only a few European countries who is currently paying the agreed 2% fee.
The US has to make up the shortfall in contributions

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