London, Dec 4 (TIWN) US President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron of being "nasty" for saying that NATO was "brain dead".

At a news conference alongside the Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, the US president also accused Macron of trying to break away from Nato, as well as running a failing economy.

Trump has described Nato as obsolete on previous occasions.