The Hague: NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Wednesday likened President Donald Trump to a “daddy” intervening in a schoolyard brawl after the U.S. leader used profanity when describing the war between Israel and Iran.
In comments to the press during a NATO summit in The Hague, Trump had compared fighting between Iran and Israel to children quarrelling.
“They’ve had a big fight, like two kids in a schoolyard. You know, they fight like hell, you can’t stop them. Let them fight for about 2-3 minutes, then it’s easy to stop them.”
Rutte laughed and added: “And then daddy has to sometimes use strong language to get (them to) stop.”
On Tuesday, following a ceasefire deal between Iran and Israel, Trump said the countries had been fighting “so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.”
NATO did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump also compared on Wednesday the impact of U.S. bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites to the end of World War Two, when the United States bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
“I don’t want to use an example of Hiroshima, I don’t want to use an example of Nagasaki, but that was essentially the same thing. That ended that war. This ended the war,” Trump said.
(Reporting by Anthony Deutsch and Gram Slattery; Additional reporting by Andrew Gray; Editing by Aidan Lewis)
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