{"id":192870,"date":"2026-03-04T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/did-trump-threaten-to-invade-spain-what-we-know\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T20:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T01:40:14","slug":"did-trump-threaten-to-invade-spain-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/did-trump-threaten-to-invade-spain-what-we-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Trump threaten to invade Spain? What we know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/news\/2026\/03\/04\/trump-threaten-spain\/\">Did Trump threaten to invade Spain? What we know<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/news\/2026\/03\/04\/trump-threaten-spain\/\">https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/news\/2026\/03\/04\/trump-threaten-spain\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-04 17:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.snopes.com\">www.snopes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A rumor spread online suggesting that U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to invade Spain after the U.S. and Israel conducted missile strikes against Iran on February 28, 2026. <\/li>\n<li>The rumor was based on an authentic video of Trump during a meeting with the German Chancellor discussing the use of Spain&#8217;s military bases. The footage appears to show Trump saying he could use Spain&#8217;s military bases without permission.<\/li>\n<li>The interpretation of Trump&#8217;s comments as a threat to invade Spain remains unclear, which is why the claim was not rated true or false. <\/li>\n<li>A White House spokeswoman stated that Spain later agreed to cooperate with the U.S. military after Trump\u2019s remarks.<\/li>\n<li>Trump also criticized Spain for not contributing to NATO\u2019s financial targets and claimed he ordered the Treasury Secretary to cut off trade with the country, favoring a trade embargo over military action.<\/li>\n<li>According to Spain&#8217;s defense cooperation agreement with the U.S., the U.S. required Spain&#8217;s permission to use the jointly-operated military bases, making unilateral use illegal. <\/li>\n<li>Snopes is still awaiting a response from the Spanish government on whether they have now agreed to cooperate with U.S. military operations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did Trump threaten to invade Spain? What we know https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/news\/2026\/03\/04\/trump-threaten-spain\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-04 17:05:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/mediaproxy.snopes.com\/width\/1200\/https:\/\/media.snopes.com\/2026\/03\/did_trump_threaten_to_invade_spain_heres_what_he_said.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192872,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192870\/revisions\/192872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}