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7/19/19

US-Netherlands relations: Rutte's visit to Washington focuses on jobs and security issues

 During their press conference, Trump was asked about the racist chanting made during a speech at which he again criticised four congresswomen.

The questioning made Rutte visibly uneasy, the Volkskrant said. In 2017, Rutte was himself at the centre of a similar row when he told a Dutch newspaper people who are not happy living in the Netherlands and with the way things are done should leave. And in 2016, he said a group of Dutch Turks demonstrating in Rotterdam should ‘eff off’.

The visit ended with a special ceremony to hand over a US flag which flew during the Normandy landings in 1944. The flag had been bought by a Dutch art collector at auction in 2016 for €450,000 and he decided to donate it to the US. My visit to the White House came to an end with a special ceremony. On D-Day in 1944, the first navigation vessels landed on Utah Beach, Normandy under this very flag. Today this flag returned home, after its Dutch owners presented it to President Trump

Read more: Rutte's visit to Washington focuses on jobs and security issues - DutchNews.nl - Live

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