Yolanda Díaz has rushed to respond to the US president after his announcement that there will be trade reprisals against Spain for not committing to increasing military investment to 5% of GDP within the framework of the NATO summit in the Dutch city of The Hague.

"Spain is sovereign and does not accept threats from anyone," the second vice president warned in a message on her Bluesky account."We are not going to increase defense spending to please Donald Trump. Our priority is social spending and we owe it to the Spanish people," the founder of Sumar boasted.

In the PP, in turn, they highlight that"Pedro Sánchez has committed to the NATO rearmament philosophy and to 5% of GDP being spent on Defence over a maximum of 10 years, but he calms his partners by saying that he has deceived the Atlantic Alliance and that he will only pay 2.1%."

"His parliamentary accomplices condone his lies, we don't. However, we don't condone Trump's threats to Spain either. And even less so if he intends to use our country's producers to take revenge for the Prime Minister's lack of solidarity," they emphasize in Alberto Núñez Feijóo's party.

From the Genoa leadership, they add:"Therefore, neither with the president who lies nor with the president who threatens. Our country will once again be a respected, trustworthy, and supportive country. And it will be very soon."

Podemos, in turn, has limited its criticism to Spain's adherence to the NATO declaration to spend 5% of GDP on defense, although the head of the Executive maintains his plan to not invest more than 2%.

"Today marks the consummation of Sánchez's betrayal of the working people of this country. He has signed 5% of GDP for military spending and puts us at risk by allowing Spain to be used in illegal US attacks. Not with our silence," declared the secretary general of the purple party, Ione Belarra, in Congress.

Feijóo has also criticized this issue through his X account."The farce is over. Sánchez signed the 5%," wrote the PP leader, incorporating a link to a news story on the subject.

Minister Óscar Puente - recently returned from paternity leave - responded by attaching an extract of the North American president's statements in The Hague, saying that"what Spain has done is tremendous" because "it is the only country that is not going to pay everything, that will remain at 2%."

"It's always a good thing to piss off Trump," said Gabriel Rufián, ERC spokesperson in Congress.

For her part, the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has expressed her"totally against" "burning bridges" with the US and has criticized the Spanish president for treating citizens "like idiots," in addition to warning that citizens "are going to pay for it." She also asserted that her government is "clearly and openly pro-American."