NATO chief cements ‘Trump whisperer’ status as Greenland crisis eases

I think he has a way of communicating with Trump that’s part flattery and part just stating things and framing things in simple terms that Trump can appreciate,” said Rachel Ellehuus, a former adviser to the U.S. NATO mission..."With regard to NATO, I think that simple term, like the tagline that he has sold Trump, is ‘NATO is good for the United States, and you Mr. President, have been instrumental in making NATO a success...And I think when he looks at some European leaders like [President Emmanuel] Macron of France, there’s a lot of talk, and there’s a lot of lecturing without a lot of action, and he then smells the weakness and has a less positive impression of that... He likes [Italian Prime Minister Giorgia] Meloni, for example, or at least the last time I checked...And again, she has a much more straightforward style, where she focuses on a few issues and she doesn’t lecture or sort of pretend as if she knows better, and frames it in a context that’s win-win for the U.S.”