Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez hit back at President Donald Trump following threats that the United States would punish the European country for not allowing the use of its military bases to attack Iran.

Trump told reporters during a Tuesday meeting in the Oval Office with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz that he instructed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to “cut off all trade with Spain” after Sanchez’s government denied the U.S. military use of bases such as Rota and Morón for its operations against Iran.

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