Nato chief calls Trump ‘daddy' as he makes Beijing the bogeyman
Mark Rutte has some daddy issues. The Trump-endearment of the Nato secretary general has reached unprecedented cringe levels, even by the usually unseemly standards of the shameless sycophants of the American imperium in Brussels.
He has repeatedly called US President Donald Trump 'daddy', both during and after the latest Nato summit in The Hague. Indeed, his subsequent clarification to the press was worse, thereby making Trump the official Daddy of Nato.
It all started after Trump showed frustration and used an expletive, calling out Israel and Iran for threatening the ceasefire he has imposed on them.
'We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the f*** they're doing,' he told reporters.
When the two men sat down, Rutte interjected, 'Daddy has to use tough language.'
Afterwards, reporters asked him to clarify. Reaching new, bizarre heights, he doubled down on his kowtowing by comparing Trump and Europe to the relationship between a daddy and his child.
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Mark Rutte has some daddy issues. The Trump-endearment of the Nato secretary general has reached unprecedented cringe levels, even by the usually unseemly standards of the shameless sycophants of the American imperium in Brussels. He has repeatedly called US President Donald Trump 'daddy', both during and after the latest Nato summit in The Hague. Indeed, his subsequent clarification to the press was worse, thereby making Trump the official Daddy of Nato. It all started after Trump showed frustration and used an expletive, calling out Israel and Iran for threatening the ceasefire he has imposed on them. 'We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the f*** they're doing,' he told reporters. When the two men sat down, Rutte interjected, 'Daddy has to use tough language.' Afterwards, reporters asked him to clarify. Reaching new, bizarre heights, he doubled down on his kowtowing by comparing Trump and Europe to the relationship between a daddy and his child.
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