Daddy’s home!
The White House had fun with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte calling President Trump “Daddy” — sharing a now-viral video of Trump returning to the US to a soundtrack of Usher’s “Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home).”
“Daddy’s home… Hey, hey, hey, Daddy,” the White House captioned the clip on X, where it has already been viewed more than 2.5 million times.
The footage featured a slew of images from Trump’s trip to the Hague for the NATO summit, where Rutte famously referred to Trump with the affectionate moniker while they explained the president earlier saying that Iran and Israel didn’t “know what the f–k they’re doing.”
Asked about that moment, Trump compared the two nations to “kids in a schoolyard” who “fight like hell” but are then easy to pull apart.
Rutte laughed and responded: “Daddy has to sometimes use strong language to get it stopped.”
The NATO chief later sought to clarify his viral remarks, telling Reuters that he only used the word “Daddy” to describe how some allies seem to view the US — and not about Trump specifically.
“In Europe, I hear sometimes countries saying, ‘Hey, Mark, will the US stay with us?’ And I said that sounds a little bit like a small child asking his daddy, ‘Hey, are you still staying with the family?’” Rutte said.
“So in that sense, I used daddy, [it’s] not that I was calling President Trump ‘Daddy.’”
