Trump said he had not yet spoken to Macron about that, and then turned and jokingly said to the French president, “Would you like some nice ISIS fighters? I can give them to you. But many are from France, many are from Germany, many are from UK. “We have a tremendous amount of captured fighters – ISIS fighters over in Syria,” Trump said. Trump’s incorrect claim – which we have fact-checked before - came when a reporter asked Trump if France had stepped up in taking back foreign ISIS fighters from France. Trump wrongly claimed that captured Islamic State fighters being held in Syria are “mostly from Europe.” But, as Macron quickly and rightly pointed out, most of the Islamic State, or ISIS, prisoners are from Syria and Iraq. 3: one appearance with French President Emmanuel Macron and a second with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. The president made his claims in two press appearances during NATO meetings in London on Dec. But Trump falsely implied that Japan isn’t sharing the cost of the U.S. troops stationed in the country, while the U.S. Japan pays $1.7 billion to $2.1 billion per year toward the cost of having U.S.A June 2018 joint statement from Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un didn’t say Kim “will denuclearize,” as Trump claimed.South Korea was already paying over $800 million a year when it agreed earlier this year to increase its contribution by 8.2%. He falsely claimed that South Korea was only paying “$500 million a year” under a cost-sharing deal that helps fund U.S.has historically won most of the cases it has brought to the WTO against other nations. “never used to win” World Trade Organization cases “before me,” which is not so. And he claimed countries that spent a low percentage of their GDP on defense were “delinquent.” They don’t owe NATO, or other countries, any money. The president wrongly claimed that other NATO member countries’ spending on defense was “heading down” three years ago.trade deficit with the European Union has gone up under Trump, contrary to his suggestion that he had reduced it “fairly rapidly.” And as he has done many times, he inflated the amount of that trade deficit. Although about half of the territory once held by the Islamic State was regained under President Barack Obama, Trump again wrongly claimed that, “When I came in, it was virtually 100%.They are not, as Trump claimed, “mostly from Europe.” The overwhelming majority of captured Islamic State fighters are from Iraq and Syria.President Donald Trump repeated a slew of false claims to an international audience at the annual NATO summit: