After Rutte Meeting, Trump Rebukes NATO

TL;DR

Mark Rutte, the secretary general of Nato, has said Donald Trump was “clearly disappointed” that the US’s allies had refused to join its war against Iran, following a closed-door meeting in Washington on Wednesday. Speaking to CNN after his private meeting with the US president, Rutte declined to say directly whether Trump raised his threat to withdraw from the military alliance over the Iran war, but described the exchange as a “very frank, very open” discussion between “two good friends”. The meeting between Trump and Rutte came at a delicate moment, less than a day after the US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire deal that includes opening the strait of Hormuz.