NATO's Rutte compares Trump to a 'daddy' after US President's profane comments on Iran-Israel war: Watch

United States President Donald Trump and Nato General Secretary Mark Rutte during a North Atlantic Council plenary meeting during the the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Wednesday compared President Donald Trump to a "daddy" intervening in a schoolyard brawl after the U.S. leader used profanity while describing the war between Israel and Iran.

In comments to the press during a NATO summit in The Hague, Trump compared fighting between Iran and Israel to children quarrelling. Trump said, "They’ve had a big fight, like two kids in a schoolyard. You know, they fight like hell, you can’t stop them. Let them fight for about 2-3 minutes, then it’s easy to stop them."

NATO Secretary General then laughed and added: "And then daddy has to sometimes use strong language to get (them to) stop."

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Mark Rutte referred to the US president’s expletive-laden outburst over the ceasefire as Trump compared Iran and Israel to ‘two kids in a school yard’

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On Tuesday, after a ceasefire deal between Iran and Israel, Trump said that the two countries were fighting "so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f**k they’re doing."Also Read - Trump says Israel, Iran 'don't know what the f**k they're doing': Watch

Reuters reported that NATO did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Trump also compared on Wednesday the impact of U.S. bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites to the end of World War Two, when the United States bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

”I don’t want to use an example of Hiroshima, I don’t want to use an example of Nagasaki, but that was essentially the same thing. That ended that war. This ended the war,” Trump said.

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(With agency inputs)