The blossoming friendship between President Donald Trump and NATO chief Mark Rutte, and a "daddy" comment, raised eyebrows among NATO watchers this week. Rutte, a politician known for his statecraft,

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte cannot stop heaping praise on President Donald Trump’s foreign policy. The two appeared at a press event on Tuesday for the NATO summit currently underway at the Hague in the Netherlands.

The daddy thing, I didn’t call him ‘daddy,'” Rutte told reporters. “What I said is that sometimes, in Europe, I hear sometimes countries saying, ‘Hey, Mark, will the U.S. stay with us?’ And I said that sounds a little bit like a small child asking his daddy,