US EditionDonald Trump Shares Private Message with NATO Chief with Worrying Threat to Europe
- On June 24, 2025, while traveling to a NATO summit in The Hague, U.S. President Donald Trump publicly posted a private text he received from NATO's leader, Mark Rutte.
- Trump's release followed tensions over NATO's proposed new defense spending target of 5% GDP and his prior comments casting doubt on the alliance's mutual defense guarantee.
- Rutte's message commended Trump for creating a significant breakthrough in transatlantic relations and stated that Europe would contribute substantially, which would ultimately be a victory for Trump.
- Rutte told reporters he had no problem with Trump airing the note, stating, "there's nothing in it which had to stay secret," and reaffirmed his certainty in NATO's Article 5 mutual defense clause.
- The summit aims to secure alliance agreement on the 5% GDP defense spending goal, which some view as controversial, while underlying tensions about commitments and geopolitical conflicts remain.
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NATO chief has ‘no problem’ with Trump sharing private message
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told reporters there was nothing in the message that needed to stay secret, going on to insist that without President Trump in office the target of 2% defense spending for all NATO countries would never have been reached.
Trump publishes scandalous private message from Mark Rutte. Submissively flatters the US leader – and praises controversial bombings of Iran.
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Trump shares Rutte’s text message of praise
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte praised President Donald Trump for making Europe “pay in a BIG way,” as leaders gathered in the Netherlands on Tuesday for a historic summit that could unite them around a new defense…
NATO chief hails Trump 'win' in private message to US president
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte praised US President Donald Trump for making Europe "pay in a BIG way," as leaders gathered in the Netherlands for a historic summit that could unite them around a new defence spending pledge or widen divisions among the 32 member countries of the security alliance.The US president, while en route, published a screenshot of a private message from Rutte saying: "Donald, you have driven us to a really, really impo…
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has praised Trump. This is shown in a message that the US president published on his own platform Truth Social. "You will achieve something that NO American president has been able to do in decades," he writes, according to the screenshot Trump uploaded.
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