President Donald Trump unloaded on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a curse-filled phone call Monday, blasting the Israeli leader over the country’s escalating military campaign in Lebanon, according to a bombshell Axios report citing two U.S. officials and a third source briefed on the conversation.
“You’re fucking crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this,” Trump told Netanyahu, according to one U.S. official’s summary of the remarks.
A second source said Trump was “p—ed” and at one point shouted: “What the f— are you doing?”
The president’s fury was reportedly driven by Netanyahu’s escalation, threatening to derail his administration’s delicate negotiations with Iran, which include a demand that Israel halt its bombardment of Lebanon. Trump warned Netanyahu that bombing Beirut would further isolate Israel internationally and pointed to his support during Netanyahu’s corruption trial, telling the prime minister he’d helped keep him out of jail.
Israel abandoned its plans to strike Hezbollah targets in Beirut, an Israeli official told Axios. Trump later posted on Truth Social that the Iran talks were “continuing, at a rapid pace.”
One U.S. official told Axios this was among Trump’s worst calls with Netanyahu since returning to office. Another said Trump objected to Israel demolishing entire buildings to take out a single Hezbollah commander and was disturbed by the high civilian death toll.
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