NATO’s ‘Trump whisperer’ treads carefully on Greenland and defense

He’s been dubbed the “Trump whisperer,” but NATO chief Mark Rutte struggled to get a word in Thursday as the US president mused about annexing Greenland and criticized allies over defense spending. The former Dutch prime minister visited the White House seeking to convince a skeptical Donald Trump to maintain US commitment to the transatlantic alliance and to Ukraine. The Guardian Washington bureau chief David Smith reports from Washington.