NATO Secretary General Rutte met Donald Trump in Florida

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : It was Rutte's first meeting with Trump in his new role, although he met with Trump on several occasions in his previous role as Dutch prime minister.
54% : During a meeting with Rutte in 2019, Trump said that he and Rutte had become friends.
39% : According to information from sources within the alliance, the meeting was to discuss Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine as well as the issue of defence spending by NATO members, among other topicsDuring the election campaign, Trump claimed that he could end the Russian war of aggression within 24 hours and demanded that all NATO countries spend at least 3% of their gross domestic product (GDP) on defence in the future.
38% : The meeting between Trump and Rutte, the former Dutch prime minister who took over the top NATO job earlier this year, had not been publicly announced in advance.
32% : During his first term in office from 2017 to 2021, Trump repeatedly railed against what he saw as the under-investment in defence by European allies and at times even threatened to withdraw the US from NATO.

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