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.
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