{"id":383321,"date":"2026-04-09T14:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/383321\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T14:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:36:07","slug":"rutte-the-trump-whisperer-faces-a-fresh-test-as-trump-turns-on-nato-over-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/383321\/","title":{"rendered":"Rutte the &#8216;Trump whisperer&#8217; faces a fresh test as Trump turns on NATO over Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"ZQT6FMLANZE5NAMJ2B6JJUX6NA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">BRUSSELS \u2014 NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has weathered a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-nato-rutte-iran-war-981d250a7265774a4913b63d8797fc34\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fresh ordeal<\/a> with President Donald Trump, this time over the U.S.-Israel war on Iran, a conflict that does not even involve the world\u2019s biggest military alliance and one it was never consulted about.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"3A3WOFINYVEA7FUXSILHZMHG7E\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Since launching the war, Trump has derided U.S. allies as \u201ccowards,\u201d slammed NATO as \u201ca paper tiger\u201d and compared U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer to Neville Chamberlain, who is probably best remembered for a policy of appeasement toward Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUSSELS \u2014 NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has weathered a fresh ordeal with President Donald Trump, this time over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[183071,122,42,119,117780,43,238,40,38,41,39,121,12526,126],"class_list":{"0":"post-383321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-eu-nato-us-explainer","9":"tag-general-news","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-international-agreements","12":"tag-iran-war","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-top-news","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-topnews","18":"tag-topstories","19":"tag-war-and-unrest","20":"tag-washington-news","21":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}