The blossoming friendship between President Donald Trump and NATO chief Mark Rutte, and a "daddy" comment, raised eyebrows among NATO watchers this week. Rutte, a politician known for his statecraft,

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte cannot stop heaping praise on President Donald Trump’s foreign policy. The two appeared at a press event on Tuesday for the NATO summit currently underway at the Hague in the Netherlands.

President Donald Trump laughed off jokingly being called "daddy" by NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte. Rutte made the remark in reference to Trump's intervention in the Israel-Iran conflict, where he angrily pulled both sides back from violating the ceasefire he had just brokered.