Secretary General of NATO Mark Rutte was confronted with being a toady and having no “self respect” when it comes to Donald Trump by the Danish press and he failed to refute those accusations.
Rutte has publicly taken every insult, every threat, every rambling unhinged diatribe from Demented Donald with a smile on his face.
RASMUS: Mark, you sit next to Donald Trump in moments where he talks about conquering Greenland, talks about lashing out at allies like Spain, starting trade wars, things that it doesn’t seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of.
Does this have any effect on your self-respect when you sit next to him like that and say nothing?
RUTTE: You know, what I always do is acknowledge when praise is due, and I think we should praise Donald Trump for the fact that NATO is so much stronger.
Of course it has to do with the Russian threat, it has to do with the war in Ukraine, but it very much also has to do with President Trump delivering now what since Eisenhower the United States tried to achieve, equalizing spending between the U.S. and Europe.
And it makes Europe stronger, it makes Europe more relevant for the United States as a partner.
So that is the transformative character of this summit, of what happened in The Hague, the implementation since The Hague, this summit as a point in time where we take stock.
And I think that’s extremely important.
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