🏛️ Politics 7h ago · Eli Stokols, Paul McLeary, Jack Detsch

What Trump’s blowup with Rutte was really about

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President Donald Trump couldn’t get over European allies’ refusal to allow the U.S. access to military bases for the Iran war. And he made that clear to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Wednesday in an hourslong, closed-door rant that focused on little else.



Trump made no specific demands, nor did he indicate the U.S. would reduce its commitments to the alliance due to base decisions, according to three people familiar with the meeting. But the president harped on the issue, accordin

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