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President Donald Trump took portion successful a flurry of greetings with satellite leaders anxious to get look clip with the U.S. president during his little stint astatine the NATO Summit.
Upon arriving, the president was welcomed by Dutch royals — King Willem-Alexander, Queen Maxima, and their girl Crown Princess Amalia. He became the archetypal president to enactment astatine the king’s palace, Huis 10 Bosch Palace.
"I had meal with the king and queen this greeting — beauteous people," Trump said. "I slept beautifully."
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He participated successful photograph ops with satellite leaders from crossed the governmental spectrum — person and foe alike — and received fawning praise from NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who likened him to the begetter of the alliance.
"Daddy has to sometimes usage beardown language," Rutte said successful defence of Trump’s expletive-laden criticism of Israel and Iran for threatening the ceasefire helium negotiated.
President Donald Trump, left, speaks to NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte during a North Atlantic Council plenary gathering during the NATO acme successful The Hague, Netherlands, connected June 25, 2025. (AP Photo Kin Cheung, Pool)
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President Donald Trump, right, speaks with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte during a radical photograph of NATO heads of authorities and authorities astatine the NATO acme successful The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
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President Donald Trump speaks to Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer astatine the commencement of a plenary league astatine the NATO acme successful The Hague, Netherlands, connected June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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U.S. President Donald Trump meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte astatine the NATO acme successful The Hague, Netherlands, June 25, 2025. (REUTERS/Brian Snyder)
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President Donald Trump meets with Netherlands' Prime Minister Dick Schoof connected the sidelines of a NATO acme successful The Hague, Netherlands, connected June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte be a plenary league astatine the NATO acme successful The Hague, Netherlands, connected June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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President Donald Trump greets Poland's President Andrzej Duda during a plenary league astatine the NATO acme successful The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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President Donald Trump speaks during a gathering with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte arsenic helium arrives for a NATO acme successful The Hague, Netherlands, connected June 25, 2025. (Piroschka Van De Wouw, Pool Photo via AP)
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President Donald Trump is greeted by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (right) and Netherland Prime Minister Dick Schoof (left) astatine the authoritative welcoming ceremonial for the 2025 NATO Summit astatine The Hague connected June 25, 2025. (AP Images)
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President Donald Trump greets Latvia's Foreign Minister Baiba Braze earlier the commencement of a plenary league of the NATO Heads of State and Government acme successful The Hague, Netherlands, connected June 25, 2025. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool Photo via AP)
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President Donald Trump greets North Macedonia's President Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova up of a plenary league astatine the NATO acme successful The Hague, Netherlands, connected June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives astatine a meal for NATO heads of states and authorities connected the sidelines of a NATO summit, astatine Huis 10 Bosch Palace successful The Hague, Netherlands, connected June 24, 2025. (Reuters/Toby Melville)
The president was riding precocious amid warming relations with the confederation helium antecedently threatened to propulsion retired of. After months of combativeness with Europe implicit defence spending and wide policies, Trump praised the confederation for agreeing to his request to rise its defense spending people to 5% of GDP.
"Believe it oregon not, allies person accrued spending by $700 billion," Trump said successful a quality conference. "This week, the NATO allies committed to dramatically summation their defence spending to that 5% of GDP, thing that nary 1 truly thought possible."
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Even Spain — the lone federation not to hold to perpetrate 5% to defence — got a comparatively mild drubbing from the president.
"I similar Spain. I person truthful galore radical from Spain. It's a large place, and they're large people. But Spain is … the lone state retired of each of the countries that refuses to pay. And, you know, truthful they privation a small spot of a escaped ride," he said.
It was surely a antithetic code from Vice President JD Vance’s code astatine the Munich Security Conference.
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"The menace that I interest the astir astir vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia. It's not China. It's not immoderate different outer actor," Vance said astatine the time. "What I interest astir is the menace from wrong the retreat of Europe from immoderate of its astir cardinal values, values shared with the United States of America."
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