Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte told reporters at the summit in the Hague that President Donald Trump was like a “daddy” intervening in a schoolyard fight.
Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte told reporters at the summit in the Hague that President Donald Trump was like a “daddy” intervening in a schoolyard fight.
I did understand from the article that it was said as a joke. It’s just… A fucking weird joke.
He is Dutch. I think he did not fully understand the connotations that the word “daddy” has in English. If you made the same joke in Dutch it is still weird, but it feels/sounds less degrading to oneself. It would be more like saying that someone is the wisest or the adult in the situation.