US President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte speak at the start of a NATO leaders summit in The Hague, Netherlands June 25, 2025. Ludovic MARIN / AFP
THE HAGUE, Netherlands—At the NATO Summit’s opening on Wednesday, President Donald Trump lauded U.S. strikes on Iran, claiming they halted the Israel-Iran conflict, likening them to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings that ended World War II.
“That hit ended the war. I don’t want to use an example of Hiroshima. I don’t want to use an example of Nagasaki, but that was essentially the same thing. That ended that war,” Trump told reporters before he met with world leaders at the NATO summit.
