{"id":12007,"date":"2025-06-26T07:41:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T07:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=12007"},"modified":"2025-06-26T07:42:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T07:42:00","slug":"nato-secretary-general-calls-trump-daddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=12007","title":{"rendered":"NATO secretary-general calls Trump ‘Daddy’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte called President Donald Trump “Daddy” on Wednesday, reacting to the president’s recent use of expletives<\/a> when he accused Iran and Israel of violating a ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n

Early Wednesday morning during a bilateral meeting between Trump and Rutte during the NATO Summit in The Hague, Netherlands, Trump likened the countries of Israel and Iran to “two kids in a schoolyard” that had a “big fight.”<\/p>\n

“You know, they fight like hell. You can’t stop them. Let them fight for about two-three minutes, then it’s easy to stop them,” he continued.<\/p>\n

Rutte raised eyebrows when he interjected, “Daddy has to sometimes use strong language to get them to stop.”<\/p>\n

“You have to use strong language,” Trump agreed. “Every so often you have to use a certain word.”<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump and NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte attend a North Atlantic Council plenary meeting during the the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, June 25, 2025.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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One day earlier, Trump became visibly frustrated about the Israel-Iran conflict, blurting an expletive before departing the White House en route to the summit.<\/p>\n

Trump was receptive to Rutte’s nickname, saying during a press conference later Wednesday that the secretary-general meant it in an affectionate manner.<\/p>\n

Asked if Trump views his NATO allies as his “children,” the president responded, “No, [Rutte] likes me. I think he likes me. If he doesn’t, I’ll let you know. I’ll come back and I’ll hit him hard, OK? He did it very affectionately, ‘Daddy, you’re my Daddy.'”<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump speaks during a media conference at the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, June 25, 2025.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Rutte later defended his use of the word and continued to pile praise on Trump, describing him as a “good friend.” He also said his language is a matter of taste.<\/p>\n

On Trump’s decision to strike Iran and the ceasefire, Rutte said “I think he deserves all the praise.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte called President Donald Trump “Daddy” on Wednesday, reacting to the president’s recent use of expletives when he accused Iran and Israel of violating a ceasefire agreement. Early Wednesday morning during a bilateral meeting between Trump and Rutte during the NATO Summit in The Hague, Netherlands, Trump likened the countries of Israel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12009,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12007\/revisions\/12009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}