'Where is your self-respect?': Journo puts NATO chief on the spot over Trump's Greenland remarks
Rutte defended Trump’s role in strengthening NATO as a Danish reporter pressed him on Greenland and ally threats, according to Ritzau.
- On Wednesday at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, a Danish journalist challenged NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte regarding his public relationship with President Donald Trump, questioning his self-respect.
- Critics frequently accuse Rutte, head of the 32-member alliance, of appeasing Trump during public appearances, noting the former Dutch prime minister remains silent during controversial remarks.
- Rasmus Svaneborg of the Danish news agency Ritzau pressed Rutte on Trump's aggressive rhetoric, including threats toward Spain, Greenland, and Iran, asking what this does to his self-respect.
- Rutte defended his approach, arguing that Trump deserves credit "for the fact that NATO is so much stronger," citing the Russian threat and the war in Ukraine.
- According to foreign policy expert Elizabeth Saunders, allies are managing Trump with flattery, attempting to "de-Americanize" by planning for a future without him, treating his presence as distraction.
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She sits next to Donald Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland or hurling herself against allies like Spain, things that old Mark wouldn't approve of. Does this have any effect on his own love?She goes straight to the point of the Danish journalist Rasmus Svaneborg at the final press conference of the NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey.The question is addressed to the Secretary General of the Alliance, Mark Rutte: doesn't feel embarrassed to …
A Danish Journo’s Viral Takedown of Trump Caps Off Epic NATO Meltdown
At the NATO summit on Wednesday, Donald Trump lashed out wildly at, well, everyone in sight. He threatened more war with Iran. He angrily vowed to cut off all trade with Spain. He hinted again at stealing Greenland. There were many other pratfalls. Amid all this, a Danish journalist had an extraordinary confrontation with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, asking him point blank: What does sitting next to Trump and praising him while he viciousl…
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte was the target of sharp questions from a Danish journalist during a press conference at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, Sky News writes.
Mark Rutte skewered over Trump relationship: ‘Does it affect your self-respect?’
Mark Rutte was challenged on his “self-respect” by a reporter who accused him of failing to come to the defence of Nato nations threatened by Donald Trump. The US president has reignited his calls to annex Greenland - an autonomous territory of Denmark - at the outset of the military alliance’s annual summit on Wednesday (8 July). “I’m not happy with Nato because of what they did in Greenland,” Mr Trump said in Turkey, Ankara, as the Nato genera…
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