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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Holly Baxter

Voices: In a deeply weird NATO presser, ‘Daddy’ Trump made one announcement — and then another, and then another

In June, during a NATO summit in The Hague, things took a turn for the Oedipal when Dutch prime minister-turned-NATO chief Mark Rutte referred to Donald Trump as "Daddy". The remark came after Trump compared Iran and Israel to unruly children in a schoolyard fight, prompting Rutte to quip, “Daddy has to sometimes use strong language to get them to stop.”

Trump, naturally, ran with it, telling reporters, “He did it very affectionately: ‘Daddy, you're my daddy.’”

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