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So they called him "daddy" at NATO?
I wonder if this was meant to flatter him or was it a slap? 
“This would not have happened if you would not have been elected in 2016 and re-elected last year ... so I want to thank you,” Rutte told Trump at the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, further lauding the president as a “man of strength ... and peace” and praising his “decisive” intervention in the Iran-Israel conflict.
As Trump compared the Middle Eastern adversaries to “two kids in a school yard” who “fight like hell,” Rutte interjected, laughing: “And then daddy has to sometimes use strong language to get them to stop.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/26/trump-and-ruttes-bromance-stole-the-spotlight-at-the-nato-summit.html
As Trump compared the Middle Eastern adversaries to “two kids in a school yard” who “fight like hell,” Rutte interjected, laughing: “And then daddy has to sometimes use strong language to get them to stop.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/26/trump-and-ruttes-bromance-stole-the-spotlight-at-the-nato-summit.html
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