NATO is stepping up through this man.

Axar.az reports U.S. President Donald Trump made this remark while praising NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte during their meeting at the White House.

"This man is a man that only knows how to step up. And we have the same goal in mind.

We want the war ended, and he’s doing his job. He only knows how to do a good job. That’s one thing. That’s why I fought for him to get that job, because they had some other candidates that I’ll tell you would not have done a very good job," he said.

Rutte jokes he will need a clip of his comments for his family archives.

Trump then repeats his line that US spends too much even though “we are on the other side of the ocean.”

But he adds that the new minerals deal with Ukraine “will get us something back, a lot back,” even as he complains “we were treated very unfairly” by Europeans.