{"id":592498,"date":"2026-04-09T12:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/592498\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T12:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:54:08","slug":"trump-lashes-nato-after-frank-and-open-rutte-meeting-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/592498\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump lashes NATO after \u2018frank and open\u2019 Rutte meeting \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The president also signaled he was still stewing over his aborted bid to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/01\/06\/trump-says-his-greenland-fixation-is-about-national-security-europeans-are-skeptical-00712149\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">claim control of Greenland<\/a>, a self-ruling Danish territory in the Arctic. \u201cREMEMBER GREENLAND, THAT BIG, POORLY RUN, PIECE OF ICE!!!\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Rutte, moving quickly to contain the fallout, <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2026\/04\/08\/world\/video\/donald-trump-iran-nato-war-strike-hormuz-oil-lead-jake-tapper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told CNN<\/a> shortly after leaving the White House that Trump had voiced \u201cdisappointment\u201d during what he described as a \u201cfrank and open\u201d discussion. <\/p>\n<p>He said he reminded the president that the \u201clarge majority of European nations has been helpful, with basing, with logistics, with overflights,\u201d and pointed to \u201cwidespread support [in Europe] for the fact that degrading the nuclear and the ballistic-missile capacity from Iran was really crucial, and that only the U.S. was able, at this point, to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The president also signaled he was still stewing over his aborted bid to claim control of Greenland, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1376,10853,43,5897,38970,14207,44,41,39,42,40,772,8767,210458],"class_list":{"0":"post-592498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-greenland","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-mark-rutte","13":"tag-military","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-top-news","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-topnews","18":"tag-topstories","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-war","21":"tag-war-in-iran"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}