NATO Chief Meets With Trump Amid Rising Tensions With Russia

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : The Friday meeting appears to be the first between Rutte and Trump since the president-elect won the U.S. presidential race.
45% : Rutte also met with Trump's prospective national security team members, including Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.), whom Trump has chosen to serve as his White House national security adviser.
42% : Following Trump's election win, the NATO chief said he looked forward to working with Trump and echoed the president-elect's calls for the various NATO members to step up their defense spending.
34% : Trump and Rutte "discussed the range of global security issues facing the Alliance," the press statement reads.
31% : Trump has also indicated he would prefer to quickly negotiate an end to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.
16% : It remains to be seen how Trump will handle negotiations to end the Russia-Ukraine war and whether he will stay the course set by the administration of President Joe Biden if his negotiations fail to bring a quick end to the war.
14% : During his first term in the Oval Office, Trump criticized the NATO alliance and pressured member states to step up their defense spending to meet the pledge to contribute 2 percent of their gross domestic product (GDP) to their militaries.

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