# Mark Rutte Praises Trump’s Leadership on Iran and European Support

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2069890740382052527
- Source account: [@BowesChay](https://x.com/BowesChay)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:53
- Published: 2026-06-24
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6xTmWka4y2V1/en/mark-rutte-praises-trump-s-leadership-on-iran-and-european-support

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6xTmWka4y2V1/en/mark-rutte-praises-trump-s-leadership-on-iran-and-european-support) He's done a great job. He was not too much involved when they were too nice to us in our recent little military skirmish.

[0:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6xTmWka4y2V1/en/mark-rutte-praises-trump-s-leadership-on-iran-and-european-support?t=8) But he is a man that's respected by everybody.

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6xTmWka4y2V1/en/mark-rutte-praises-trump-s-leadership-on-iran-and-european-support?t=12) And Mark, maybe you'd like to say a few words.

[0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6xTmWka4y2V1/en/mark-rutte-praises-trump-s-leadership-on-iran-and-european-support?t=14) Absolutely. And a few things I want to share with the media, with you being here at present, and it's about your leadership.

[0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6xTmWka4y2V1/en/mark-rutte-praises-trump-s-leadership-on-iran-and-european-support?t=22) First of all, about Iran. I really want to make clear how important it is what you are doing on Iran.

[0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6xTmWka4y2V1/en/mark-rutte-praises-trump-s-leadership-on-iran-and-european-support?t=28) This is, first of all, about the nuclear capability Iran was basically getting its hands on.

[0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6xTmWka4y2V1/en/mark-rutte-praises-trump-s-leadership-on-iran-and-european-support?t=36) And it would have been a threat to the region, it would have been a threat to the whole world.

[0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6xTmWka4y2V1/en/mark-rutte-praises-trump-s-leadership-on-iran-and-european-support?t=40) This is a country which is exporting chaos, it is exporting terrorism, and they were very near to getting their hands on the nuclear capability.

[0:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6xTmWka4y2V1/en/mark-rutte-praises-trump-s-leadership-on-iran-and-european-support?t=49) You've seen last week in the G7, all the leaders in the G7 applauding the fact that this nuclear capability has been degraded.

[0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6xTmWka4y2V1/en/mark-rutte-praises-trump-s-leadership-on-iran-and-european-support?t=57) This is extremely important. And I just want to make this clear, because sometimes people think, why was this whole Iran thing going on?

[1:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6xTmWka4y2V1/en/mark-rutte-praises-trump-s-leadership-on-iran-and-european-support?t=62) This is about security, about safety. This is the leader of the free world taking responsibility beyond the shores of the United States for the rest of the world.

[1:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6xTmWka4y2V1/en/mark-rutte-praises-trump-s-leadership-on-iran-and-european-support?t=69) And this is what you did. I know there have been debates about whether your allies in Europe were with you enough.

[1:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6xTmWka4y2V1/en/mark-rutte-praises-trump-s-leadership-on-iran-and-european-support?t=76) I just want to say one thing, which is – Yeah, but let me say one thing, which is – I know you think that, but let me – and I know about the – let's say your – yeah, irritation about that, but when you look at the numbers, 4,000 to 5,000 U.S. planes taking off from bases in Europe in the six weeks

[1:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6xTmWka4y2V1/en/mark-rutte-praises-trump-s-leadership-on-iran-and-european-support?t=97) this war took place, still the ceasefire took place mid-April.

[1:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6xTmWka4y2V1/en/mark-rutte-praises-trump-s-leadership-on-iran-and-european-support?t=102) And Bucharest, the airport in Romania, heading to close – it had to close for commercial traffic because they had to make sure that you were able to send a tanker aircraft up in the air.