Home discomforts send Trump rushing to project image of global patriarch
by David Smith in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#6Y9SA)
The tortured progress of the president's tax-and-spend bill is likely to bring his supporters a big, ugly surprise - little wonder he was so keen to turn the focus to Iran and Nato
Daddy's home." So said a social media post from the White House, accompanied by a video featuring the song Hey Daddy (Daddy's Home) by Usher and images of Donald Trump at the Nato summit in The Hague.
The US president's fundraising allies were quick to market $35 T-shirts with his image and the word after Mark Rutte, the Nato secretary general, referred to Trump's criticism of Israel and Iran over violations of a ceasefire by quipping: And then Daddy has to sometimes use strong language to get [them to] stop."
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