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.

But he is a man that's respected by everybody.

And Mark, maybe you'd like to say a few words.

Absolutely. And a few things I want to share with the media, with you being here at present, and it's about your leadership.

First of all, about Iran. I really want to make clear how important it is what you are doing on Iran.

This is, first of all, about the nuclear capability Iran was basically getting its hands on.

And it would have been a threat to the region, it would have been a threat to the whole world.

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.

You've seen last week in the G7, all the leaders in the G7 applauding the fact that this nuclear capability has been degraded.

This is extremely important. And I just want to make this clear, because sometimes people think, why was this whole Iran thing going on?

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.

And this is what you did. I know there have been debates about whether your allies in Europe were with you enough.

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

this war took place, still the ceasefire took place mid-April.

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.