Rutte jokes about calling Trump ‘daddy’ rather than commenting on future of NATO

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NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is so unwilling to discuss whether President Donald Trump is going to leave the alliance that he would rather return to his unfortunate comment from months ago, when he referred to the president as “daddy.”

Rutte was speaking at the Reagan Institute on Thursday, following his White House meeting the previous day, when a reporter asked him if Trump indicated whether he would stay in NATO — as well as if he would continue to call him “daddy” if he exits the alliance.

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