Following years of criticizing NATO as a "rip-off," President Trump now endorses the alliance as member countries agree to double their defense spending targets.

General Mark Rutte called President Donald Trump "Daddy" on Wednesday, reacting to the president's recent use of expletives when he accused Iran and Israel of violating a ceasefire agreement.Early Wednesday morning during a bilateral meeting between Trump and Rutte during the NATO Summit in The Hague,

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.