1. President Trump set an acrimonious tone for the NATO summit meeting in Brussels, calling allies “delinquent” in their military spending and urging them to more than double their expenditures.

He also accused Germany of being “captive to Russia because it’s getting so much of its energy from Russia.” (Our fact-check finds otherwise.) Chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up under Soviet domination, issued a polite rejoinder: that now-unified Germans “can make our own policies and make our own decisions.”