This wasn’t an ardent supporter swooning or the president taking to social media to sing his own praises in his familiar ALL CAPS style. This was NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte heaping direct praise on Trump as he flew to a two-day NATO summit in the Netherlands.

President Donald Trump laughed off jokingly being called "daddy" by NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte. Rutte made the remark in reference to Trump's intervention in the Israel-Iran conflict, where he angrily pulled both sides back from violating the ceasefire he had just brokered.

In a moment that has quickly spiralled from diplomatic praise to viral chaos, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte inadvertently triggered a social media storm by calling US President Donald Trump "daddy" during a press briefing in The Hague.