NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte meets with Trump amid Iran tensions

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and U.S. President Donald Trump, seen here in June 2025, met at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday for a private meeting. File Photo by Martijn Beekman/NATO/UPI

By Paul Godfrey World News – UPI.com

April 8 (UPI) — NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte met with U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday as he kicked off a visit to Washington amid growing tensions between the American leader and the defensive military alliance.

Trump, a longtime NATO critic, has increasingly expressed frustration with alliance partners, threatening to pull the United States out of the pact over their reluctance to back the U.S. military in the war against Iran.

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