NATO Chief Admits Trump Is ‘Completely Right’ About Tomahawks After White House Meeting
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte supported former President Donald Trump’s decision not to supply Ukraine with Tomahawk cruise missiles, stating in a video that such a weapons system would not quickly impact teh war. Rutte emphasized the extensive training required, agreeing with Trump that it would take months, even up to a year, for Ukrainian forces to effectively use the missiles.Trump explained that the U.S. would not be teaching others to use this complex and powerful weapon, making immediate deployment unachievable.
Instead of providing these missiles, the Trump management chose to increase economic pressure on Russia by imposing sanctions on major Russian oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, seen as vital to Russia’s war efforts. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called for an immediate cease-fire.
Trump also expressed frustration with Russian President Vladimir putin, noting that despite good conversations, negotiations yielded no progress. A proposed summit with Putin was canceled as it did not seem likely to achieve necessary outcomes.
Simultaneously occurring, the U.S. lifted restrictions allowing Ukraine to use Western long-range missiles independently.Soon after, Ukraine utilized British-supplied Storm Shadow cruise missiles in an attack on a Russian explosives facility. These air-launched missiles use U.S. targeting data and have a range of approximately 180 miles.
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Wednesday said President Donald Trump made the right call in not supplying Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine.
In a video posted to YouTube, Rutte said that “one specific weapons system” is not likely to change the war.
“And I think what the president explained today is that for the Tomahawk system, and he was completely right here, it takes months for anyone other than American soldiers to be trained on them,” Rutte said.
“So it is not that if you decide today, Ukrainians can use them tomorrow,” he added.
Rutte summed up his White House meeting with Trump by saying, “It was a very good meeting with the president.”
Trump said the training curve is too steep to make the weapon available.
“It will take a minimum of six months to learn how to use it,” Trump said in a video posted to X.
“So the only way a Tomahawk is going to be shot is if we shot it, and we’re not going to do that,” Trump said.
Trump on Tomahawks:
It takes a minimum of 6 months to learn how to use Tomahawks.
The only way is if we shoot it, we are not going to do that. pic.twitter.com/oROwVHhqhk
— Clash Report (@clashreport) October 22, 2025
“There is a tremendous learning curve with the Tomahawk,” Trump continued. “It’s a very powerful weapon, a very accurate weapon, and maybe that’s what makes it so complex. But it will take a year. It takes a year of intense training to learn how to use it, and we know how to use it, and we’re not going to be teaching other people. It will be too far out into the future.”
Instead of a weapons system, the Trump administration announced it will ramp up the economic pressure on Russia by imposing sanctions on Russia’s largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, according to The New York Times.
“Now is the time to stop the killing and for an immediate cease-fire,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, calling the companies critical parts of “the Kremlin’s war machine.”
On Wednesday, Trump vented his frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Every time I speak with Vladimir, I have good conversations, and then they don’t go anywhere,” he said. “They just don’t go anywhere.”
He said a proposed summit with Putin “didn’t feel right to me. It didn’t feel like we were going to get to the place we have to get. So I canceled it.”
Amid the focus on sanctions, the Trump administration has stepped back from its role in determining the use of long-range missiles that can attack targets in Russia, according to The Wall Street Journal.
On Tuesday, Ukraine used its newfound freedom to send a British-supplied Storm Shadow cruise missile to attack a Russian facility that produced rocket fuel and explosives.
The missiles, which use U.S. data to hit targets, have a range of about 180 miles and are launched from the air.
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