Lower thirds:

00:02 Report by / Katharina Kroll
00:14 Donald Trump / US President
00:33 Donald Trump / US President
00:56 Donald Trump / US President
01:12 Mette Frederiksen / Danish Prime Minister
01:38 Katharina Kroll / DW Brussels Bureau Chief, Ankara
02:48 Ulf Kristerssen / Swedish Prime Minister

Script:

The alliance came to Ankara with one overriding objective: to demonstrate unity at a time of growing global tensions. And it looks like that's exactly what they did....
 
+++SOT Donald Trump, US- President:
"There was tremendous love in the room” "smart people have a doing a good job."
 
But that isn't how things started. The beginning of the summit was quickly overshadowed by concern over deepening fractures in the alliance -- highlighted by the US president:
 
+++ SOT Donald Trump: 
"I'm not happy with NATO because of the fact that they didn't want to help us with the number one state sponsor of terror. That's Iran. They were unwilling to help us. (...) But I was really testing. I wanted to see whether or not they'd be there. And the answer is they weren't." (the end of this is tricky as he barely says 'weren't'..."
 
Trump said the ceasefire with Iran may be over. And he also returned to an issue that triggered one of NATO’s worst internal disputes in recent years: Greenland.
 
+++ SOT Donald Trump (with Erdogan):
"It was Greenland, and it continues to be - that should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark."
 
It prompted Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen to AGAIN make clear that Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark...
 
+++ SOT Mette Frederiksen, Prime Minister of Denmark: 
"I heard the US president yesterday and I think the US position is unfortunately very clear on this topic, and our position is as clear as it has been all through, Greenland of course is not for sale."
 
Secretary General Mark Rutte tried to de-escalate, insisting the US president’s comments were no reflection on NATO's unity.
 
+++ PTC Katharina Kroll:
"Credible deterrence depends on unity. And on paper, NATO delivered exactly that with a final declaration agreed to by all 32 leaders. But by undermining allies, complaining about their positions on Iran, and repeating claims to their territory, Donald Trump raised questions about his own commitment to NATO security."
 
NATO's commitment to Ukraine was also on display at the summit — including from Donald Trump himself. He said the United States will allow Kyiv to manufacture Patriot interceptors under licence, a significant win for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who has repeatedly appealed for stronger protection against intensifying Russian attacks.
 
Zelenskyy also secured promises of €140 billion in support over the next two years — a strong message to Moscow that Europe intends to stand by Ukraine for the long haul. Yet when it comes to paying for that support, NATO's European allies are not entirely united.
 
+++ SOT Ulf Kristerssen, Prime Minister Sweden:
"They are able to fight because of the support from Western countries, and that support needs to be sustained. Right now, quite a few number of countries are actually delivering the vast majority of all the support that needs to increase from other countries as well."
 
In the end, the summit's declaration reaffirmed NATO's core guarantee - that an attack on one ally is an attack against all.
 
All 32 agreed, including President Trump.

END