{"id":154755,"date":"2025-06-26T09:15:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T09:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-daddy-trump-showered-with-praise-on-triumphant-lap-through-nato-summit-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T09:15:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T09:15:52","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-daddy-trump-showered-with-praise-on-triumphant-lap-through-nato-summit-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-daddy-trump-showered-with-praise-on-triumphant-lap-through-nato-summit-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: \u2018Daddy\u2019 Trump showered with praise on triumphant lap through Nato summit &#8211; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump celebrated commitment by Nato allies to boost defence spending to 5% of GDP. Key US politics stories from Wednesday 25 June 2025<br \/>On the back of hailing US strikes on Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities as a \u201cvictory for everybody\u201d, president Trump has claimed success at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/nato\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Nato<\/a> summit in The Hague, praising the commitment by Nato allies to boost defence spending to 5% of GDP.<br \/>The US president described the summit as \u201ca very historic milestone\u201d. It was, he said, \u201csomething that no one really thought possible. And they said: \u2018You did it, sir, you did it\u2019. Well, I don\u2019t know if I did it \u2026 but I think I did.\u201d<br \/>The US president also received sycophantic praise from Nato secretary general Mark Rutte who, referring to Trump\u2019s foul mouthed outburst about Iran and Israel a day earlier, said rather remarkably: \u201cDaddy sometimes has to use strong language\u201d.<br \/>Here are the key stories at a glance:<br \/>A relaxed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Donald Trump<\/a> said Nato\u2019s decision to increase defence spending to 5% of GDP was a \u201cbig win\u201d for western civilisation in a digressive press conference at a summit in The Hague where he reaffirmed the US\u2019s commitment to the military alliance.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/25\/trump-praises-nato-states-as-summit-prepares-to-lift-defence-spending-target\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><sub class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Read the full story<\/sub><\/a><br \/>Donald Trump and the US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, have admitted to some doubt over the scale of the damage inflicted on Iran\u2019s nuclear sites by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/22\/how-effective-was-the-us-attack-on-irans-nuclear-sites-a-visual-guide\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">the US bombing at the weekend<\/a>, after a leaked Pentagon assessment said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/24\/iran-strikes-nuclear-sites-report\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">the Iranian programme had been set back by only a few months<\/a>.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/25\/trump-and-hegseth-admit-doubts-over-irans-nuclear-sites-damage-by-us-strikes\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><sub class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Read the full story<\/sub><\/a><br \/>Voice of America (VOA) may have been used to broadcast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s message to Iranians in Farsi during weekend military strikes, the president\u2019s senior adviser told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-congress\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Congress<\/a> on Wednesday, revealing how the crumbling, traditionally independent news service is possibly functioning as a conduit for presidential messaging.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jun\/25\/voice-of-america-trump-iran-broadcast\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><sub class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Read the full story<\/sub><\/a><br \/>The attorney general, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/pam-bondi\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Pam Bondi<\/a>, professed ignorance of reports of immigration officials hiding their faces with masks during round-ups of undocumented people, despite widespread video evidence and reports that they are instilling pervasive fear and panic.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jun\/25\/ag-pam-bondi-ice-masks-raids\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><sub class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Read the full story<\/sub><\/a><br \/>A court in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/costa-rica\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Costa Rica<\/a> has ordered authorities to release foreign migrants who were locked up in a shelter after being deported by the US. About 200 people from Afghanistan, Iran, Russia as well as from Africa and some other Asian countries, including 80 children, were brought to the Central American nation in February <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/02\/trump-central-america-immigrants-deportation\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">under an agreement with the US administration of Donald Trump<\/a>, a move criticized by human rights organizations.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/25\/costa-rica-court-deportations-trump\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><sub class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Read the full story<\/sub><\/a><br \/>Plans to open a massive federal immigration processing center in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">California<\/a> desert community has sparked outrage among advocacy groups who argue it will come at a \u201clong-term cost\u201d and \u201cfuel harm\u201d.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jun\/25\/california-immigrant-detention-facility\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><sub class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Read the full story<\/sub><\/a><br \/>The first meeting of a critical federal vaccine panel was a high-profile display of how the US health secretary and vaccine skeptic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/robert-f-kennedy-jr\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Robert F Kennedy Jr<\/a> has injected chaos into vaccine policy infrastructure.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jun\/25\/cdc-vaccine-panel-rfk-acip\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><sub class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Read the full story<\/sub><\/a><br \/><strong>Donald Trump and CBS could settle their legal battle<\/strong> over a contested interview with Kamala Harris for $20m <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jun\/25\/trump-lawsuit-cbs-kamala-harris-interview\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">as the dispute continues to shadow a major media merger<\/a>.<br \/><strong>The New Jersey Democratic representative who is facing felony charges<\/strong> after a recent incident during a visit to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jun\/25\/lamonica-mciver-new-jersey-ice-immigration\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Ice detention facility pleaded not guilty in federal court<\/a>.<br \/><strong>The vice-mayor of a small California city is under fire<\/strong> after appearing to call on street gangs to organize in the face of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jun\/25\/california-vice-mayor-cynthia-gonzalez-ice\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">immigration sweeps by federal agents in Los Angeles<\/a>.<br \/>Catching up?<em> Here\u2019s what happened on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jun\/25\/trump-administration-updates-today\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">24 June 2025<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMingFBVV95cUxPSS1fVXJrcWJsUFFhRUNaV0xTaUUydUpmQmFGVldZNkF1VXVzMElRVFI4SUo2RHBVRjFZYTZtOWFyLVVCZ005RFdNT0JPUXFOSzFsQUpNZnIzVGpjcVlOV1lxRzJVQkFzRDRPVFc2dVIwd2o5Y2lKeWZCWENCQmVtdWk1TlVEdlJPektVZlZnakR1dTkzMHRLRzVRNGE3dw?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump celebrated commitment by Nato allies to boost defence spending to 5% of GDP. Key US politics stories from Wednesday 25 June 2025On the back of hailing US strikes on Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities as a \u201cvictory for everybody\u201d, president Trump has claimed success at the Nato summit in The Hague, praising the commitment by Nato [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}