Trump Cuts Off NATO's Mark Rutte In Oval Office After Sitting Out Iran War
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Trump Cuts Off NATO's Mark Rutte In Oval Office After Sitting Out Iran War As expected, President Trump took the opportunity to chastise NATO for its lack of participation in the Iran war while hosting the alliance's Secretary General Mark Rutte at the White House. "We didn’t need help on this at all. We demolished them in literally the first week," Trump said of Iran before reporters, while seated across from Rutte. That's when the president said, " But it would have been nice if they would have said, ‘We’d like to help.’ We didn’t even need it, but it would have been nice if they said that." via Associated Press Throughout the conflict Trump has openly mused about pulling the United States out of the military alliance - or also at least withholding significant defense funding, and suggested in the Wednesday meeting that he'd be discussing the issue with Rutte behind closed doors. "We’re going to be discussing what took place, and we’ll see what happens," he said. Despite general negativity heaped on NATO's lax response to the Hormuz crisis and Iran campaign, Trump still offered a little praise of Rutte - who has long been generally supportive of the Trump White House. Rutte in turn hailed Trump as "the leader of the free world" and stressed "I really want to make clear how important it is what you are doing on Iran ." "This is, first of all, about the nuclear capability Iran was basically getting its hands on - and it would have been a threat to the region. It would’ve been a threat to the whole world. This is a country that is exporting chaos, is exporting terrorism ," Rutte described, without providing evidence of these series of claims. Rutte tried a bit of flattery, which didn't exactly calm Trump's verbal attacks on NATO : "I know there have been isolated cases about which you are really disappointed, but generally speaking your European allies have been there," Rutte said. Trump appeared unconvinced, at times interrupting Rutte to disagree with him, though
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