The president also signaled he was still stewing over his aborted bid to claim control of Greenland, a self-ruling Danish territory in the Arctic. “REMEMBER GREENLAND, THAT BIG, POORLY RUN, PIECE OF ICE!!!” he added.
Rutte, moving quickly to contain the fallout, told CNN shortly after leaving the White House that Trump had voiced “disappointment” during what he described as a “frank and open” discussion.
He said he reminded the president that the “large majority of European nations has been helpful, with basing, with logistics, with overflights,” and pointed to “widespread support [in Europe] for the fact that degrading the nuclear and the ballistic-missile capacity from Iran was really crucial, and that only the U.S. was able, at this point, to do that.”