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Trump and Rutte’s ‘bromance stole the spotlight at the NATO summit

US President Donald Trump (R), German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (L, UP), NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (L) and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (R, UP), North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) gathered for a family photo before a general session of the state and government summit.

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NATO has written this week and agreed to take a big march in defense expenditures at the annual summit on Wednesday – but it was “Bromance”, but the Spot light between President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.

Rutte seemed to have emerged many times on Wednesday before and after the alliance issued a common statement that declared a defense hike to 5% of the GDP until 2035.

“This would not be if you were not elected in 2016 and not re -elected last year … So I want to thank you,

When Trump compared his Middle East rivals with “two children in a school yard”, he intervened in the rut, laughed: “And then the father should sometimes use a strong language to stop them.”

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, US President Donald Trump, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on June 25, 2025 during the Nether Netherlands Summit, the Netherlands, the Netherlands, the Netherlands.

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Rutte also explained special comments to Trump before – Published by the president on the real social site – He congratulated the US leader for something that this is really extraordinary and no one dare to do.

‘Father’ problems

There was no way for journalists to allow Rutte to escape by understanding Trump as a “father” without any more comments. As a press conference began after the joint declaration, Sky News developed relations rather than the day after the communiqué.

Sky News’ Security and Defense Editor Deborah Haynes, “Donald Trump, the language you used to talk to the praise was remarkable. Today you called him ‘Father’ and sent a text message to praise him.” He said.

US President Donald Trump (R) speaks to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) on 25 June 2025 with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.

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Rutte, an experienced diplomat known as a consensus manufacturer during a comprehensive housing as the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, said that this was a “taste question” and the Washington leader was a “good friend”.

“Do you think this will be the result of this summit? [Trump] Was the president not re -elected? Do you really think there are seven or eight countries that say ‘yes, we can encounter 2%in the 2030s’? [would have got there without Trump]? … So doesn’t it deserve some praise? “Rutte asked.

“In the case of Iran, I think the fact that Iran is very aimed at this determined action to ensure that it cannot take its hands to a nuclear capacity, I think it deserves all the praise.”

Haynes then asked Trump the same question, the White House leader Rutte said, “I think he likes me, I think he likes me, if I will not let you know.” Authority, the word “very kind”, he added.

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