POLITICS_ Mark Rutte to Meet Trump at WH Amid NATO Friction (Jim Thomas - NEWSMAX)

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Mark Rutte to Meet Trump at WH Amid NATO Friction

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By Jim Thomas | Friday, 19 June 2026 04:25 PM EDT

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte will sit down with President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday, the alliance announced Friday, part of a three-day Washington visit aimed at steadying a relationship strained by U.S. moves to scale back its military commitments to European allies.

The trip, running Tuesday to Thursday, lands one week after Secretary of War Pete Hegseth used a Brussels ministerial to brand NATO a "paper tiger" and launch a six-month Pentagon review of U.S. force posture in Europe.

Hegseth told allied defense ministers the review would push the alliance "fast and irreversibly toward Europe leading," though he stopped short of committing to a troop drawdown.

Rutte will also meet senior administration officials during the visit and join an E5 leaders' meeting virtually from Washington, according to NATO.

On Thursday, he is set to see members of Congress and headline a discussion at the Atlantic Council.

The agenda is shadowed by a clear shift in U.S. posture.

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