President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he and Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdoğan were talking about the F-35 fighter jet program with Republican U.S. senators, after Washington removed Turkey from the program over its purchase of a Russian S-400 missile defense system.
During a White House meeting attended by Erdoğan, five Republican Senators, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, a reporter asked Trump about the F-35 program.
"That's what we're here for, we're talking about with our great senators. There are a lot of alternatives. We'll work something out. I project that we will work something out," Trump said.
"ERDOĞAN IS VERY DISAPPOINTED IN MACRON'S NATO REMARKS"
Trump also said that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was very disappointed in a French statement about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
French President Emmanuel Macron recently said that NATO was experiencing "brain death," citing a lack of coordination and U.S. unpredictability under Trump. He also expressed doubt about the U.S.-led alliance's security maxim that an attack on one ally would be treated as an attack on all.
