'Daddy has to sometimes use strong language': Nato chief on Trump's Israel-Iran outburst
Referring to Donald Trump's use of profanity when commenting on the Israel-Iran war on Tuesday, the Nato secretary-general, Mark Rutte, has joked that 'Daddy sometimes has to use strong language' at the alliance's summit in The Hague.
In a remark to reporters on 24 June, Trump said: 'We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the fuck they're doing'
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