Week of the week in Trump’s sucking anniversary

Over the past decade, I have watched ambitious, embattled, fearful or just weak interlocutors Donald Trumpit is obvious that many of them came to the same conclusion on how best to manage the capricious president: using drug sucking – more, more, better, ideally combined with some strategic golf balls that allowed Trump to win. It turns out that this is a safer option than actually standing on him. Just ask Volodymyr Zelensky. Or Angela Merkel. Or Mike Pence. During Trump’s first semester, Poland proposed to name a new permanent U.S. military device for his honor. Israel thanked him for recognizing its occupation of the Golan Heights by unveiling a new settlement called Trump Heights. At this point in the Trump era, from Lindsey Graham to the deceased Shinzo AbeThe former Japanese Prime Minister nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for reaching a nuclear disease agreement with North Korea in 2018, but it didn’t actually happen. They know what we all know now: Trump is a reverse Monaville, no matter how dishonest he likes praise for flatterers rather than a tough lawyer for unpleasant truths.

But Mark Rutte’s performance is prominent even in a large catalog of world leaders engaged in Trump’s slavery self-changing behavior. Rutte, Secretary-General NATO The former Dutch prime minister held the league’s annual summit in The Hague on Tuesday and Wednesday. To be fair, this is by no means easy. Trump, for a long time NATO Skeptics, threaten Pull out The alliance completely started his second term at the 2018 party, demanding more defense spending NATO Allies. Otherwise, he said at a 2024 campaign rally that Russia, the alliance’s main rival, should be free to “do whatever they want” to any country that doesn’t give. In response, Rutt and his allies designed the summit around avoiding a bombing on Trump, in an effort to pre-negotiate the summit to pre-negotiate the summit to prevent the final Trump Trump Tantrum from derailing and making the same form. “I would call it the ‘Trump Summit’,” Marco Rubio, Trump’s double-carrying secretary of state and national security adviser, bragged before the formal meeting began.

But even after watching the anxiety pile up of Trump for months, I wasn’t fully prepared for Rutte’s launch NATO So powerfully blended into something that might be called it Magazine era. The first sign of Rutte’s advance came from Trump himself, who posted a text message from the Secretary-General on his social media before leaving The Hague so much that I might not believe it was true NATO Officials did not confirm. Rutte praised Trump for his “really extraordinary” and “decisive action” against Iran over the weekend, launching air strikes aimed at destroying his nuclear program, “nothing else dares to do.” He promised to wait for Trump’s “another major success” at the summit. On Wednesday morning, the Secretary-General followed up with Trump’s photos. His language at the press conference was (if any) more worshipful. “He is a powerful man, but also a peaceful man,” Rut enthusiastically, as Trump sat next to him. He then announced that Trump personally was responsible for “extra total defense spending” during his first term, and then praised it at this year’s summit with “The Big Splash”, a new five-percent defense spending threshold. “If you weren’t elected, this won’t happen,” Rutt said. “So I want to thank you.” Trump smiled a little.

Rubio will discuss the transfer back to Iran and the controversy of the day after Rutte’s speech – a leaked U.S. intelligence report that, for Trump’s anger, found that the air strikes could only delay Iran’s development of nuclear weapons for months. Despite this, Rubio insisted: “It’s a complete and total forgetting” and adopted Trump’s O-Word as his own. For an experienced Trump-observer, this suggests that the press conference will inevitably change. Anger about the “fake news” and the traitor of the intelligence community in Shenzhou will obviously come soon. Rut could have sat there and said nothing, an obvious lesson for a nonpartisan European security official, but he interrupted Rubio just to make clear about the credit Trump himself deserved. “Marco, can I remind you of another aspect?” Rutt said. “So, it’s great that you have the nuclear capability of Iran. It’s crucial. You did it in a very impressive way, but the signal to the rest of the world is that this president is about it, yes, yes, he’s a peaceful man. But if necessary, he’s willing to use the powerful power of the U.S. military,” he’s willing to use. ”

When the president talks again, Trump accuses CNN, MSNBC and era Dare to report the “scum” of Intel’s evaluation. He was still sitting quietly when Trump mentioned how he was on the phone with the “very good” Vladimir Putin. What I want to know NATO The members thought of this, and at a summit they promised to spend trillions of dollars on their defense over the next decade in a bid to stop “very good” people from invading them.

Finally, eighteen minutes after this outstanding show, Rutte offers no doubt that it will become his most famous strategic self-body behavior. A day ago, before leaving NATO At the summit, Trump had been angry with cameras about Iran and Israel and did not insist on the ceasefire agreement he announced on Monday night. “We basically have two countries that have been fighting for so long that they don’t know what they are doing,” he said. In a photo with Rutte in The Hague, Trump mentioned his intervention, which he meant to be “fight like two kids on campus.” Trump did not repeat his criticism, but for some reason, Rotter seized the opportunity to defend his F-bomb. “Dad sometimes has to use strong language,” he said. At the time, when Trump started talking again, it was so painful, and it was almost a relief.

One can only imagine their view of Rut’s lineup in the Kremlin. Trump certainly likes it. After he returned to Washington Wednesday night, the White House released a music video, with the highlight of his trip set to Usher’s 2009 track “Hey Dad (Dad’s Home). By Thursday morning, Trump was raising funds to sell the red “Dad” T-shirt for $35 a piece. The email reads: “When Biden was president, we were ridiculed on the world stage.” The whole world has left us! ” “But thanks to your favorite president (me!), we are respected again. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte called me dad on the world stage. It’s so great! ”

It is no surprise that the strong backlash from many Europeans was probably trying to protect with such a low bow, which was swift. Former Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis called Rutte’s “influx of weakness and tenderness” both “shamed” and “one of the most shameful plots in modern history.” In the case of a long rebuttal on X, he added: “I feel like I might be speaking for a large part of the Europeans – it’s tasteless. The wording seems to have been stolen from the adult entertainment industry.” Nathalie Tocci, a foreign policy expert and former adviser to the former EU official, said Rutt’s “pathetic flattery and fines” made her feel “very embarrassed as an European”. Perhaps more importantly, she concluded: “This doesn’t even work.”

What shocked me is that this is an important point that sucking machines often overlook. Trump’s bottomless need for positive affirmation is that no one can satisfy it permanently. He wouldn’t continue to attract at all. Ask Mike PangpeiTrump’s ass seeks hot bullets. “Nevertheless, when Trump returned to the office, Pompei was frozen Magazine Trump’s eviction announced in social media posts.

Another problem with Rutt’s strategy is that there is little evidence that no matter how extreme, it has produced significant long-term changes in Trump’s perspective. European leaders, including Rutt’s predecessor Jens Stoltenberg, have spent years working to discourage Trump’s positive view of Putin, his criticism of Ukraine and his desire to impose punitive tariffs on the EU, have barely succeeded. If anything, their collective will be willing to convince Trump to be a weak promoter, contrary to the powerful leader he appreciates.

Last year, when Trump was redefined, former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull tried to uncover the myth that flattery will make you and Trump everywhere. “There are two misunderstandings about Trump,” he told era. “The first one is that his work in the office is different from the campaign tracks. The second one is that the best way to deal with him is to attract him.”

So, apart from his own embarrassment, did Rutte actually achieve anything this week attracting Trump? “Trump won, went home,” U.S. Ambassador Ivo Daalder NATO During Barack Obama’s presidency, he told me that he described how officials planned this week’s event. “NATO Another day of life. “But, Dald added, “the reality is different.” For beginners, there isn’t actually five percent of the year spent, even one-half-third of the GDP spent on the military budget, even the United States isn’t currently meeting the 1.5 percent threshold. NATO Members agreed with Trump’s request “not only is a Russian military threat (which Trump denied exists), but also realize they can no longer rely on the United States.”

Daalder’s description of the situation in Europe today is more true to me than Rutte’s description: If Trump was really a dad, all he was actually doing is going out on the family and warn them that he would no longer pay the bill. I can understand why everyone is so relieved that he didn’t smash everything at the annual family gathering. But is the divorce really a divorce? As for the Secretary-General, he ended the summit and tried to go back and inevitably remember the comments. “I didn’t call him ‘Dad’,” Rut insisted to the reporter. This is just a metaphor. ♦