UN General Assembly
2025

At the NATO summit in June, virtually all NATO members formally committed to increased defense spending — at my request, from 2 percent to 5 percent of GDP — making our alliance far stronger and more powerful than it was ever before. In May, I traveled to the Middle East to visit my friends and rebuild our partnerships in the Gulf. And those valued relationships with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE and other countries are now, I believe, closer than ever before. My administration has negotiated one historic trade deal after another, including with the United Kingdom, the European Union, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and many, many others. Likewise, in a period of just seven months, I have ended seven unendable wars. They said they were unendable. You're never going to get them solved. Some were going for 31 years — two of them, 31 — think of it, 31 years. One was 36 years. One was 28 years. I ended seven wars.