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Sunday, June 29, 2025

Jury's Opinion: The week of 'daddy' Trump

Jury, owner of DutchNewsAgency, gives his commentary on current news


It was quite a week in the Netherlands with the NATO summit in The Hague.
It started months ago for me, when I heard that the summit would be held in the Netherlands, why would it have to be in the Netherlands?
After all, NATO has a beautiful headquarters in Brussels (Belgium), less than a 2-hour drive from The Hague, which is fully built and equipped to receive and protect ministers or world leaders, without having to bother the people of the Netherlands, and in particular the residents of The Hague.
Of course, I believe that Brussels should be financially compensated by the other NATO countries for holding all NATO meetings and summits there.
All attention at this summit in The Hague was focused on President Trump of the United States of America, with the question in the Netherlands weeks before the summit already being "will Trump come or won't Trump come?" But he came and that was not what should have happened on Dutch soil, because in my opinion the Dutch government and the Dutch parliament should have declared Trump 'an undesirable person' (persona non grata) and refused him access to the Netherlands.
Because Trump is a criminal convicted by the court who should never have become president.
Trump is a friend of Putin, we can see that from his disgusting treatment of President Zelensky of Ukraine in the White House, and how Trump blackmails Ukraine with a mineral deal without giving any further security guarantees.
And recently we saw that Trump attacked Iran. A sovereign country, without any mandate from the United Nations, without an official declaration of war, and without evidence that Iran is really working on building a nuclear weapon.
With this latest action, Trump follows in the footsteps of President Putin of Russia and Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel as a war criminal.
It is as if history is repeating itself with 2003 in Iraq, when the Republican President Bush (jr) of the United States firmly claimed that Saddam Hussein had chemical weapons. Evidence was never provided, but Bush attacked Iraq anyway. A mistake that now seems to be made again by Trump with the attack on Iran.
This kind of corrupt and convicted presidents do not belong in the Netherlands.
But what went way too far for me as a Dutchman was how 'daddy' Trump was pleased, 'daddy' as the president was affectionately called by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
President Trump was even allowed to stay at the Huis Ten Bosch palace with King Willem Alexander and Queen Máxima. As far as I'm concerned, a 'bed and breakfast' would have been good enough at the expense of the Dutch taxpayer. Actually, that would have been too expensive for a convicted criminal president.
It seemed as if the Dutch government and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte were short of 'feathers' to stick up President Trump's ass.
This unnecessary and shameful 'Trump show' has cost the Dutch taxpayer too much money, and the Dutch government, my government, has shown how you can go way too far in letting yourself be blackmailed by a convicted President of the United States of America.
Fortunately, all NATO and Trump misery is over and the Netherlands is getting back to business as usual.
I hope that this president, who is not only a danger to the United States but a danger to the entire world and world peace, will be impeached by the American Congress as soon as possible, but that he will certainly never set foot on Dutch soil again, or better yet on the soil of the entire European Union.
Daddy, do Europe a favor and stay home in the future, forever!