In another cringe-worthy moment, Trump shoved Montenegrin leader Dusko Markovic out of his way to clamber to the front of the pack to preen for a photo-op. The leaders were lining up to take a "family photo", as is tradition at such summits.
Mr Trump has previously voiced strong support for last year's referendum vote saying he believed the United Kingdom would be better off out and predicted other nations would follow suit.
"Terrorism must be stopped in its tracks, or the horror you saw in Manchester and so many other places will continue forever", Trump said, referring to Monday's suicide bombing in the English city that killed 22 people, including children.
Addressing British Prime Minister Theresa May, Trump said, "May all the nations here grieve with you and stand with you".
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation chief Jens Stoltenberg was repeatedly asked at a closing news conference about Trump's comments but insisted that while the President might have been "blunt" his message was unchanged - the allies had to do more.
"Many of these countries owe massive amounts of money from past years", he said, adding that the target they had committed to - two per cent of each country's GDP to be spent on defence - was merely "the bare minimum".
Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser to Jimmy Carter, dead at 89
Brzezinski's death, at a hospital in Northern Virginia, was announced on Friday night by his daughter, Mika, on social media. When Communists took power in Poland six years later, he retired and moved his family to a farm in the Canadian countryside.
"There's one too much", said Juncker, making a joke of his traditional rivalry with Tusk. Consider the uproar on Thursday because the president supposedly did not explicitly endorse NATO's Article 5 commitment that an attack on one ally is an attack on all.
The 28 member nations, plus soon-to-join Montenegro, will renew an old vow to move toward spending 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense by 2024.
President Trump has had, according to the White House, a successful maiden trip outside the U.S. But the bad news is he has to come home.
Recently in the news were reports that the president had shared highly classified information with Russian officials during an Oval Office meeting, revealed by those with knowledge of the conversation. Declining to do so is significant as Trump has threatened to remove the United States from the alliance, which was formed in 1949. This "an attack on one is an attack on all" pledge has only been invoked once in NATO's history - for the United States after the September 11 attacks.
President Trump is in Italy Friday for meetings with leaders of the biggest economies in the world.
"It is always possible the president will change his mind even before he lands in Washington and fire off some more tweets", Kirton said.
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