Where in the article does it say they laughed at him because he was asking for 2%?So much so that the Democrats twisted it into their own campaign messaging: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/biden-trump-trudeau-1.5385660
How quickly we forget.
If he hadn't threatened to leave NATO they wouldn't have done anything.
Canada, a G7 nation still hasn't.
Again, 24 of 32 countries reached a minimum of 2%, and then changed it to 5%.
Why is that?