The White House has posted a bizarre tribute to US President Donald Trump, riffing on the head of NATO describing him as “daddy”.

“Daddy’s home… Hey, hey, hey, Daddy,” the official White House account posted on social media late on Wednesday.

It was accompanied by footage of Trump at the summit in The Hague and boarding Air Force One, all set to the tune of Usher’s hit Daddy’s Home.

It followed NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte likening Trump to a “daddy” intervening in a schoolyard brawl after he repeatedly berated Middle East foes Israel and Iran this week.

“They’ve had a big fight, like two kids in a schoolyard. You know, they fight like hell, you can’t stop them. Let them fight for about two-three minutes, then it’s easy to stop them,” Trump said while the two were in conversation.

In response, Rutte laughed and said: “And then daddy has to sometimes use strong language to get [them to] stop.”

Rutte has since denied calling Trump “daddy”.

“What I said is that sometimes, in Europe, I hear sometimes countries saying, ‘Hey, Mark, will the US stay with us?’, And I said that sounds a little bit like a small child asking his daddy, ‘Hey, are you still staying with the family?’. So in that sense, I used ‘daddy’ — not that I was calling President Trump daddy,” he said.

The White House video came as Trump continued to fixate on an assessment playing down how much damage last weekend’s US strikes inflicted on Iran’s nuclear program – while planning talks with the country’s officials next week.

“This was a devastating attack, and it knocked them for a loop,” Trump said as his administration scrambled to support his claims, made only hours after the air strikes, that Iranian nuclear facilities were “completely and fully obliterated”.

The Defence Intelligence Agency, part of the Pentagon, said the strikes may have had only a limited impact, disrupting Iran’s nuclear program by a couple of months.

Trump also launched one of his trademark Truth Social tirades at a CNN journalist over her reporting on the strikes, demanding she be “thrown out like a dog”.

“Natasha Bertrand should be FIRED from CNN! I watched her for three days doing Fake News,” Trump wrote on his own social media platform.

“She should be IMMEDIATELY reprimanded, and then thrown out ‘like a dog’.”

Trump accused Bertrand of lying and attempting to “destroy our patriot pilots” in an article that reported the strikes in Iran failed to destroy the nuclear sites.

He said Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and other military officials would hold an “interesting and irrefutable” news conference on Thursday (US time) to “fight for the Dignity of our Great American Pilots” who carried out the mission.

He wrote on social media that “these Patriots were very upset” by “Fake News” reports about the limited impact of the strikes.

The White House highlighted statements from both Israel and Iran that the facilities suffered significant damage.

Trump administration officials have also chimed in with their own statements emphasising the damage done by the mission.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe said there was “a body of credible intelligence” showing “several key Iranian nuclear facilities were destroyed and would have to be rebuilt over the course of years”.

Most experts say it’s simply too early to know the extent of the impact.

Elsewhere, a senior White House official said the administration would try to limit the sharing of classified documents with Congress following the defence leak.

The move, first reported by Axios, seems certain to be challenged by members of Congress.

Meanwhile, Trump said the US would likely seek a commitment from Iran to end its nuclear ambitions at talks next week.

While in The Hague, Trump said he said he did not see Iran getting involved again in developing nuclear weapons.

Iran has always denied decades of accusations by some countries that it is seeking nuclear arms.

“We’re going to talk to them next week, with Iran. We may sign an agreement. I don’t know. To me, I don’t think it’s that necessary,” Trump said.

“I’ll tell you, the last thing they want to do is enrich anything right now. They want to recover.”

The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog Rafael Grossi dismissed arguments about whether the US airstrikes had set back Iran’s program by months or years.

“In any case, the technological knowledge is there and the industrial capacity is there. That, no one can deny. So we need to work together with them,” he said.

He said his priority was returning international inspectors to Iranian nuclear sites.

Israel’s bombing campaign, launched on June 13, wiped out the top echelon of Iran’s military leadership and killed leading nuclear scientists.

Iranian forces responded with missiles that pierced Israel’s defences in large numbers for the first time.

Iranian authorities said 627 people were killed and nearly 5000 injured in Iran, while twenty-eight people were killed in Israel.

-with AAP