US EditionNATO chief set for Trump talks as US-Iran truce begins
Rutte will press Trump to ease U.S. anger over allies’ Iran response and to back a ceasefire plan that could reopen a vital shipping route.
- NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte arrived at the White House on Wednesday to meet President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth amid escalating alliance tensions over Iran.
- Trump has repeatedly called NATO a "paper tiger" for refusing to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz during the Iran conflict, insisting allied support should be "automatic" rather than discretionary.
- Frustration intensified after European allies restricted U.S. military base access during Iran operations; the U.S. and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire on Tuesday, barely averting Trump's threatened strikes.
- Dubbed a "Trump whisperer," Rutte aims to mollify the president through flattery while touting European defense spending increases and discussing "current security dynamics" including Iran and Ukraine.
- While a 2023 law prevents the U.S. president from withdrawing from NATO without congressional approval, analysts warn the administration could still reduce troop presence in Europe if the meeting fails to ease tensions.
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On Wednesday evening Swedish time, Donald Trump will meet with NATO chief Mark Rutte. Before that, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio appeared together with Rutte in front of the television cameras – when great confusion arose when it was time to leave the room.
Trump is expected to meet with Rutte as he muses about pulling out of NATO
President Donald Trump has suggested the U.S. may consider leaving the trans-Atlantic alliance after NATO member countries ignored his call to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping waterway, as Iran effectively shut it and sent gas prices soaring.
The U.S. President ransacked the member countries that ignored his call to help reopen the Strait of Ormuz.
Its mission is to prevent a deepening of division in the alliance.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte is visiting Washington today, where he will also speak with US President Donald Trump. The main item on the agenda during his visit: defusing tensions over the lack of European involvement with Iran. That promises to be no easy task, according to NATO diplomats.
NATO keeps its profile low in the face of the “planned in advance” visit of its secretary general, Mark Rutte, to the White House, scheduled for later this Wednesday, as Trump’s war with Iran deepens the fissures...
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