NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Wednesday called President Trump “Daddy” after the commander-in-chief furiously dropped the F-bomb when he was ripping into Iran and Israel for temporarily breaking a cease-fire deal.
Rutte made the remark as Trump was comparing the fighting between Israel and Iran to children scrapping in a schoolyard — a day after the prez launched a blistering attack on both countries over the ongoing barrage of missiles being fired at each other.
“They’ve had a big fight, like two kids in a schoolyard. You know, they fight like hell, you can’t stop them. Let them fight for about 2, 3 minutes, then it’s easy to stop them,” Trump said as the pair gave a joint press conference ahead of the NATO summit at The Hague.
Rutte laughed and quickly added: “Daddy has to sometimes use strong language to get it stopped.”
Elsewhere, the NATO boss gushed that Trump was a “good friend” and praised the prez for making the summit a success by “finally” getting Europe to boost military spending.
“When it comes to Iran, the fact that he took this decisive action, very targeted, to make sure that Iran would not be able to get his hands on a nuclear capability — I think he deserves all the praise,” he said.
At one point, when asked if he was pouring too much flattery on Trump, Rutte responded: “No, I don’t think so. I think it’s a bit of a question of taste.”
It comes after an enraged Trump hurled a profane rant at both Israel and Iran — declaring that both nations “don’t know what the f–k they’re doing” after they broke the cease-fire agreement as soon as it took effect.
“I think they both violated it,” Trump said Tuesday as he prepared to leave for the NATO summit. “We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f–k they’re doing, do you understand?”
Soon after, Trump revealed that the deal was back on.
“ISRAEL is not going to attack Iran. All planes will turn around and head home, while doing a friendly ‘Plane Wave’ to Iran,” he wrote in a Truth Social post. “Nobody will be hurt, the Ceasefire is in effect!”
Meanwhile, Rutte’s fawning exchange came with Trump came after the president on Tuesday shared a slew of messages he’d received from the NATO boss in the lead-up to the military alliance’s annual summit.
“Congratulations and thank you for your decisive action in Iran, that was truly extraordinary, and something no one else dared to do. It makes us all safer,” Rutte wrote in one glowing text shared on Truth Social.
“It was not easy but we’ve got them all signed onto 5 percent! Donald, you have driven us to a really, really important moment for America and Europe, and the world,” he wrote. “You will achieve something NO American president in decades could get done.”
Rutte, a former Dutch prime minister, has been labeled “the Trump Whisperer” by some commentators due to his rapport with the commander-in-chief.
At a joint press conference with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth before returning to the US, Trump said of Rutte’s praise, “I think he likes me. If he doesn’t, I’ll let you know. I’ll come back and I’ll hit him hard. Okay. He did it very affectionately. ‘Daddy, you’re my daddy.’”
Asked whether he also views NATO allies as children, Trump said, “I think they need help a little bit at the beginning, and I think they’ll be able to and I think they’re going to remember this day. And this is a big day for NATO.”
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