NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is delivering an address on Thursday after meeting with President Donald Trump, who has fiercely condemned the alliance for not doing more to support the United States’s war against Iran and other conflicts.
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Rutte is set to speak at 11:00 a.m. The speech follows a meeting he held with Trump at the White House on Wednesday. Rutte said afterward that the encounter marked a “frank and open” discussion and conceded that “some” NATO members did not sufficiently step up to the plate amid Trump’s demand that they help secure the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump has recently floated leaving NATO altogether. Following his meeting with Rutte, the president signaled he remained deeply dissatisfied with the alliance’s approach to the Iran war, saying that NATO cannot “understand anything unless they have pressure placed upon them!!!”