“He didn’t change on NATO,” Pence said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “NATO changed.”

During his campaign, Trump called the alliance “obsolete,” but as president, he changed his tune. Yet Pence insisted it was Trump who convinced NATO to shift its priorities.

“I mean on the international scene, here’s a president who’s said that NATO had to change, that our NATO allies had to begin to step up to begin to share the burden of the cost of our common defense. And they are,” Pence said. “They’re also changing the mission of NATO to focus more on terrorism.”

Pence’s claim resembled a similar suggestion by White House press secretary Sean Spicer, who attributed Trump’s reversal to the world shifting toward Trump’s position, rather than the other way around.

“If you look at what’s happened, it’s those entities or individuals in some cases ― or issues ― evolving toward the president’s position,” Spicer said earlier this month. “NATO is moving toward what he has been calling for.”