{"id":70201,"date":"2025-06-25T22:04:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T22:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2025\/06\/25\/trump-wraps-nato-summit-chummier-than-his-first-term\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:12:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:12:26","slug":"trump-wraps-nato-summit-chummier-than-his-first-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/europe\/2025\/06\/25\/trump-wraps-nato-summit-chummier-than-his-first-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump wraps a NATO summit far chummier than those of his first term"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">THE HAGUE, Netherlands \u2014 U.S. President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2025\/06\/24\/trump-slams-israel-iran-they-dont-know-what-the-f-theyre-doing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2025\/06\/24\/trump-slams-israel-iran-they-dont-know-what-the-f-theyre-doing\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> on Wednesday wrapped up participation in the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2025\/06\/24\/nato-wants-a-focused-summit-amid-wars-in-iran-and-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2025\/06\/24\/nato-wants-a-focused-summit-amid-wars-in-iran-and-ukraine\/\">NATO summit<\/a> facing an alliance that had largely bent to his will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Far from the tense meetings of Trump\u2019s first term, much of the annual summit in The Hague seemed catered to the impulses and worldviews of the Republican president whose \u201cAmerica First\u201d foreign policy ethos downplays the importance and influence of multilateral coalitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After less than 24 hours on the ground in the Netherlands, Trump headed back to Washington having secured a major policy change he\u2019s pushed for since 2017: a significant boost in defense spending by other NATO countries whom the president has for years accused of freeloading off the United States. The focus on Ukraine was scaled back dramatically, with its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/ukraine\/\">invasion by Russia<\/a> earning only a passing mention in the summit\u2019s official statement, and Ukrainian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2025\/05\/12\/zelenskyy-hopes-for-ceasefire-with-russia-challenges-putin-to-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2025\/05\/12\/zelenskyy-hopes-for-ceasefire-with-russia-challenges-putin-to-meeting\/\">Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s<\/a> profile at the gathering diminished.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/europe\/2025\/06\/25\/trump-arrives-at-a-nato-summit-facing-an-alliance-shaped-to-his-liking\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2221300872.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Trump arrives at a NATO summit facing an alliance shaped to his liking<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Trump\u2019s comments en route to the Netherlands that his fidelity to Article 5\u00a0\u201cdepends on your definition\u201d\u00a0are drawing attention at the NATO summit.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump also sent NATO scattering for reassurances that the United States would remain committed to the alliance\u2019s mutual defense pledge, affirming on Wednesday that he would abide by Article 5 of the NATO treaty just a day after he rattled the 32-nation alliance by being equivocal about the pact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI stand with it. That\u2019s why I\u2019m here,\u201d Trump said when asked to clarify his stance on Article 5. \u201dIf I didn\u2019t stand with it, I wouldn\u2019t be here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Trump shifts his tone on NATO<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At a news conference later Wednesday, Trump sounded reflective as he described feeling inspired by other NATO countries that were motivated to provide for their own defense by bolstering their own spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey want to protect their country, and they need the United States, and without the United States, it\u2019s not going to be the same,\u201d Trump said, later adding: \u201cI left here differently. I &#8212; I left here saying, \u2018These people really love their countries. It\u2019s not a rip-off.\u2019 And we are here to help them protect their country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He had mused just a day earlier that whether he abides by the treaty \u201cdepends on your definition\u201d of Article 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mutual praise in The Hague on Wednesday stands in stark contrast to Trump\u2019s previous harsh words for the alliance, whose value he had long questioned. It also reflects the efforts made by other world leaders during the early months of Trump\u2019s second term to approach the mercurial president using his own language of superlatives and flattery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">British Prime Minister Keir Starmer showed up to the Oval Office in February to hand-deliver an invitation from King Charles III for a second state visit, which Starmer called \u201cunprecedented.\u201d Italy\u2019s Giorgia Meloni has promised to \u201cmake the West great again,\u201d echoing Trump\u2019s campaign slogan. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte wrote in a message to \u201cMr. President, dear Donald\u201d that his push for increased alliance defense spending would help \u201cachieve something NO American president in decades could get done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Trump gets a win on spending increase<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 32 leaders endorsed a final summit statement saying: \u201cAllies commit to invest 5% of GDP annually on core defense requirements as well as defense- and security-related spending by 2035 to ensure our individual and collective obligations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve been asking them to go up to 5% for a number of years,\u201d Trump said earlier in the day as he met with Rutte, whose private message of praise the U.S. president posted on his Truth Social account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spain had already officially announced that it cannot meet the target, and others have voiced reservations. Trump sounded peeved by Spain\u2019s decision and said he\u2019d have the country make up for it by paying higher tariffs to the United States as part of a trade deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spain belongs to the European Union, the world\u2019s largest trading bloc, which negotiates trade deals on behalf of all 27 member countries. They are not meant to negotiate trade deals individually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">NATO members took pains to be solicitous of Trump<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s turn at this year\u2019s summit came eight years after his NATO debut in 2017, a gathering that was perhaps most remembered by his shove of Dusko Markovic, the prime minister of Montenegro, as the U.S. president jostled toward the front of the pack of world leaders during a NATO headquarters tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the atmosphere around Trump this week seemed far chummier than in past years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The president was offered \u2014 and accepted \u2014 the chance to sleep Tuesday night at the Dutch royal palace. King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima, Trump said, were \u201cbeautiful people, great people, big, beautiful heart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Rutte referred to Trump as a \u201cdaddy\u201d who \u201chas to sometimes use strong language\u201d to stop a conflict between two warring entities \u2014 an analogy that the secretary-general used on the war between Israel and Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDoesn\u2019t he deserve some praise?\u201d Rutte said later at his own news conference when asked whether his use of \u201cdaddy\u201d for Trump made him appear weak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Few may have gone as far as Rutte, who has maintained a good relationship with Trump since the U.S. president returned to office, but other world leaders have found different ways to flatter Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lithuanian President Gitanas Naus\u0117da, as he advocated for the increase in defense spending by NATO allies, riffed on Trump\u2019s campaign rally cry. \u201cWe should choose a motto: \u2018Make NATO great again,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked about Rutte\u2019s behavior toward Trump, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said, \u201cI didn\u2019t find it obsequious.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI expressed it a bit more soberly in my words, but of course it is and remains true that it was only this U.S. administration \u2014 in combination with the war in Ukraine \u2014 that prompted us to decide what we decided today,&#8221; said Merz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Trump administration lashes out at reporting on strike effectiveness<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2025\/06\/22\/us-strikes-3-iranian-nuclear-sites-trump-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2025\/06\/22\/us-strikes-3-iranian-nuclear-sites-trump-says\/\">Israel-Iran war<\/a> and the recent U.S. strikes against three Iranian nuclear facilities hung heavily over this year\u2019s gathering. After Trump arrived in the Netherlands on Tuesday, The Associated Press and other news outlets reported that a U.S. intelligence report suggested in an early assessment that Iran\u2019s nuclear program had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/06\/25\/strikes-only-set-back-irans-nuclear-program-by-months-us-report-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/06\/25\/strikes-only-set-back-irans-nuclear-program-by-months-us-report-says\/\">set back only a few months<\/a> by weekend strikes and was not \u201ccompletely and fully obliterated,\u201d as Trump had said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But on Wednesday morning, Trump and other senior Cabinet officials vigorously pushed back on the assessment, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the administration was launching an investigation into who disclosed those findings to reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Superville reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Laurie Kellman in London, Geir Moulson in Berlin and Mike Corder in The Hague contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0on Wednesday wrapped up participation in the annual\u00a0NATO summit\u00a0facing an alliance that had largely bent to his 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