NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte cannot stop heaping praise on President Donald Trump’s foreign policy. The two appeared at a press event on Tuesday for the NATO summit currently underway at the Hague in the Netherlands.

Donald Trump was praised as a peacemaker at the 2025 NATO summit, with Secretary General Mark Rutte calling him a 'good friend' and likening him to a 'daddy' scolding his children

The daddy thing, I didn’t call him ‘daddy,'” Rutte told reporters. “What I said is that sometimes, in Europe, I hear sometimes countries saying, ‘Hey, Mark, will the U.S. stay with us?’ And I said that sounds a little bit like a small child asking his daddy,