- Trump told a story that South Korea hadn’t paid for U.S. troops, agreed to pay “$3 billion a year,” and that Biden later rescinded the deal after being convinced Trump was “a bad person” — but multiple parts of that account are false.
- In reality, South Korea has paid cost-sharing since 1991; the 2019 Trump-era one-year deal raised payments to under $1 billion (not $3 billion) and there were no secured multi‑year $3 billion increases.
- Biden did not rescind a Trump agreement — the Biden administration later signed new cost‑sharing pacts (2021 and 2024) that increased South Korean contributions.
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