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.

The head of Nato has sought to clarify an eyebrow-raising remark he made during a news conference with Donald Trump. While commending the US president’s efforts to mediate between Iran and Israel, Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte appeared to refer to Trump as “daddy.

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.