US President Donald Trump (R), German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (L, UP), General Secretary NATO Marko Rutte (L) and Greek Prime Minister Kiriakos MiTotakis Before Plenary Session of the Northern Atlantic Contract (NATO), 25. June 2025. years.
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NATO has made history this week, agreeing to the Mass Defense’s implementation in its annual Summer – but it was “Bromance” between President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte who stole the reflectors.
Rutt appeared on Fuan over the US President several times on Wednesday, and before and after the Alliance issued a joint statement by announcing a campaign of 10% of Individual GDP members until 2035. Years. Rutte said Trump “deserves all the praise” to make a trump card “deserved more in security in belief.
“It wouldn’t happen that you wouldn’t be chosen in 2016. years and I wanted to thank you at the NATO Route, the Netherlands, the further praise of the president as” a man “critical” conflict in the conflict of Iran-Israel.
As Trump compared the middle of the Middle East on “Two Children in the Schoolyard” that “fights like hell,” Rutta smiled, and sometimes he has to use a strong language to stop them. “
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte speaks next to US President Donald Trump, US Secretary of State Market and American Ministry of Secretary to Hegeth, during NATO Summit of State State and Government, June 25, 2025. in The Hague, Netherlands.
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Rutte also publicly reiterated previous comments on Trump – Which President announced in the social place of truth – In which he congratulated the American leader on the “decisive action in Iran, it was really extraordinary and something no one else dared to do.”
“Daddy” Problems
There was no way the journalists would let Routs get prone to alluding to allude to alluding like “Dad” without further comment. As the press conference began after the joint declaration, the news of the news in their relationship, not at the joint statement after the summit.
“The language you used when you talk to Donald Trump is noticeable because of your latter, and you sent him a text message,” Ski News “Defense Deborah Haines” whether he did not say that he did not “humiliate a little.”
American President Donald Trump (R) speaks to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutta, because they attend the Council of the North Atlantic Council at the Severt Atlantic Agreement in The Hague, 25. June 2025. years. (Photo Ludovic Marin / Pool / AFP) (Photo Ludovic Marin / Pool / AFP)
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Rutt, a spicy diplomat known as a consensus builder during his extensive previous Stipe as a Dutch prime minister, was uninvited, he reacted that the “question of taste” and was the leader of Washington “good friend”.
“Would you ever think it would be the result of this summit if [Trump] would not be the re-elected president? Do you really think that seven or eight countries that said “yes, somewhere in the 2030s, we may meet 2% ‘ [would have got there without Trump]? … So, doesn’t he deserve some praise? “Rutte asked.
He added: “When it comes to Iran, the fact that he took these decisive action, very targeted, to ensure Iran will not be able to handle his nuclear ability, I think he deserves all the praise.”
Haines later asked the same question, in response to whom the white house leader told me Rutte “love me, I think I love me, if not, I’ll let you know.” He added that the note is “very kind.”
‘Predictable’ Trump
Rutte asked Washington Post Whether a new 5% promise conductor – It consists of 3.5% to spend on “pure” military abilities and 1.5% on security infrastructure – It was just about “keeping a trump happy”.
“There’s this request for the US, please equate, because it’s much more than others do than what others do” … now we will do it, “We will conclude that”, we will do it. “
