Flattery and acquiescence to President Donald Trump seems to have worked for NATO leaders, who got a concession they desperately wanted at the summit this week: The U.S. president's commitment to the alliance's principle of mutual defense among its 32 members.

General Mark Rutte called President Donald Trump "Daddy" on Tuesday, reacting to the president's recent use of expletives when he accused Iran and Israel of violating a ceasefire agreement.Early Wednesday morning during a bilateral meeting between Trump and Rutte during the NATO Summit in The Hague,

President Donald Trump laughed off jokingly being called "daddy" by NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte. Rutte made the remark in reference to Trump's intervention in the Israel-Iran conflict, where he angrily pulled both sides back from violating the ceasefire he had just brokered.