NATO Secretary-Gen. Mark Rutte Refers To Trump As 'Daddy' When Discussing Iran Strikes

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During President Trump and NATO Sec.-Gen. Mark Rutte's meeting at the 2025 NATO Summit in the Hague, Netherlands, Rutte joked that, "Daddy has to sometimes use strong language," in reference to Trump's actions to resolve the Israel-Iran conflict.

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00:00We're with them all the way.

00:02I mean, if you take a look at the numbers, we're with them.

00:04I've been asking them to go up to 5% for a number of years,

00:07and they're going up to 5%, and that's a big... from 2%.

00:12And a lot of people didn't even pay the 2%.

00:14So I think it's going to be very big news.

00:18NATO's going to become very strong with us.

00:23I don't want to use an example of Hiroshima.

00:26I don't want to use an example of Nagasaki.

00:28But that was essentially the same thing.

00:31That ended that war. This ended that with a war.

00:34If we didn't take that out, they would have been...

00:36They'd be fighting right now.

00:40They're not going to be fighting each other. They've had it.

00:43They've had a big fight, like two kids in a school yard.

00:46You know, they fight like hell. You can't stop them.

00:48Let them fight for about 2-3 minutes, then it's easier to stop them.

00:51And then daddy has to sometimes use strong language.

00:54You have to use strong language.

00:55Every once in a while you have to use a certain word.

00:58To the other people that you canbringen, you can't stop them.

01:01But like, we're working wrong for example,

01:02you have to do a lot of people that have been told you for a few years and you want to have a few years.

01:06I'm so scared.

01:08I'm scared to be around.

01:09You know what?

01:12You know what generation?

01:13I peace is the never for a while you are today.

01:14I'm sorry.

01:15Especially everybody.

01:15What direction?

01:17Talk about people like service.

01:18So that there's what people一起em up.

01:19You know, my friends, man, know whatおお?

01:20They don't know where people in the world are going to miss.

01:22I mean, listen.

01:23That's even a lot of us.

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