“Sometimes, daddy has to use hard language.” Mark Rutte approves Trump's intervention in Iran-Israel War
Donald Trump and Mark Rutte. Photo: ANP / DDP USA / Profimedia
The US leader has used harsh words to convince Iran and Israel to respect the armistice concluded on Tuesday, and NATO Secretary General agrees.
The Secretary General of NATO Mark Rutte agreed with Donald Trump's position in the war between Iran and Israel and suggested that the US President behaved like a daddy (“Daddy”) when he had the two countries.
The moment took place at a brief Rutte-Trump conference before the main session of the NATO summit in The Hague.
Speaking on the conflict in the Middle East, the US president explained why he intervened with a harsh language to ensure that Iran and Israel respect the armistice.
On Tuesday, he had stated that Iran and Israel were fighting “for so long and so fiercely that I don't know what they do.”
In The Hague, he resumed the idea.
“They had a big conflict, like two children in the school yard. You know, they fight like crazy. You can't stop them. Let them beat for two, three minutes. Then it's easier to stop them,” Trump said.
Mark Rutte then intervened approvingly. “Sometimes, daddy has to use hard language to stop them,” said NATO Secretary General.
“Yes, a hard language, you have to use a particular word,” Trump said.
Rutte and Trump
Rutte, sometimes nicknamed “Trump's tanner”, and chosen as Secretary General including for the good relationship with the US leader, has already noticed this summit through the efforts made to thank the strongest ally.
NATO leaders met on Wednesday in The Hague for the specially organized summit for President Trump, European allies hoping that the promise to increase the defense expenses will cause him to remove doubts about his commitment to the Alliance.
PHOTO Trump publishes a message received from Rutte, in which the head of NATO states that “Europe will pay in large style”
Trump showed the magnitude of these efforts on Tuesday, publishing a private message in which Rutte praised him and congratulated him on the “decisive action in Iran”.
“You will do something that no American president has managed to achieve in recent decades,” Rutte told Trump. “Europe will pay significantly, as it should, and it will be your victory,” Rutte told her.
It was an illustration of the efforts that NATO allies make to thank the White House leader.
Rutte maintained the summit and the final statement to a very small form and focused on the spending commitment to try to avoid any Trump friction.
