President-elect Donald Trump made numerous false claims during a wide-ranging Tuesday news conference in Florida, many of them related to foreign affairs and international trade. Here is a fact check of some of these claims.

Republican U.S. President-elect Donald Trump held a press conference on Tuesday and spoke about a range of issues including NATO, Israeli hostages in Gaza, his wish for the U.S. to buy Greenland and take control of the Panama Canal.

President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he sympathized with the Russian position that Ukraine should not be part of NATO, and he lamented that he will not meet Russian President Vladimir Putin before his inauguration.

The transatlantic alliance reached a milestone in 2024 when all non-U.S. NATO allies spent the 2% target on average for the first time.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Thursday that he is working to persuade US President-elect Donald Trump to ease access for European partners to US weapons systems. Rutte told dpa that European allies are already investing hundreds of billions of dollars in the US defence industry.

Keith Kellogg, Trump's envoy to Ukraine and Russia, told Fox News about the president-elect's plans to "save Ukraine."

Donald Trump said NATO member states should be paying 5% of their GDP into their militaries during a press conference Tuesday at Mar-a-Lago: REPORTER: If I could just follow up on Ukraine and Iran, the two negotiations you'll be heading into.

Sen. Ted Cruz, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, stressed Greenland’s strategic location in the Arctic and its natural wealth of critical minerals.

The foreign secretary has used his first major speech of 2025 to go after the Putin’s aggression in tearing up the world order and back Trump’s demands for significant increases in defence spending

The Foreign Secretary has called on the incoming US president to say how he will pay for a massive increase in defence spending.

Lago on Tuesday, president-elect Donald Trump marked the starting shot in what could be a make-or-break test for NATO over Ukraine, Greenland, and defence spending.