NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte refused to play along with the New York Times’ anti-Trump narrative during a recent interview, instead praising President Donald Trump’s leadership and crediting him with the historic defense spending agreement reached at the NATO summit.
Rutte, a former Dutch prime minister who became Secretary General in 2024, has been openly supportive of Trump’s demands that European nations stop freeloading and finally contribute their fair share to collective defense.
NYT Tries to Trap Rutte With Loaded Questions
In a new interview with Lulu Garcia-Navarro of the New York Times, Rutte was repeatedly pushed to criticize President Trump, but he refused to take the bait.
“He sees it as European nations basically funding their welfare states… at the expense of American defense. You think that view is fair?” the NYT reporter asked.
Rutte’s response?
“The second half of the view is fair… the American president, Trump, very much realizes… for the US to stay strong and safe, there is this embeddedness with European security.”
In other words, Trump is right about Europe
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