Posted on 06/16/2026 3:30:44 PM PDT by McGruff
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Donald Trump last year that he was the “greatest friend Israel ever had in the White House.”
Now, as Trump tries to finalize a deal to end the war with Iran, he’s unloading on Netanyahu with rhetoric that no other American leader has dared to use publicly.
He claimed credit for Israel’s existence — “without me, there would be no Israel” — and cursed his judgment in interviews. He even described him as “crazy.”
The tension comes as Trump criticizes recent Israeli attacks in Lebanon, which threatened to jeopardize negotiations between Washington and Tehran. Trump has been pushing for a deal as he faces political blowback at home, where the war is unpopular and has driven up gasoline prices.
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AP? Might not be true.
When the president asked Bibi, are you crazy in a TruthSocial post, this article says he described him as crazy which he didn’t.
AP? it is probably Fake news.
too DISGUSTING to be real, anyway
This is to make Iran go full frenzy....like Rumplestiltskin doing his lttle dance....thinking he will surely win.
Boy if we could only break up Bibi and Trump...
let's see...maybe send a few missiles at Israel from Leb...They of course retaliate....and we gottem....not doing what the deal says...Trump has to choose...lol...and you know he has to choose us...
And that's how you play 5D chess...cuz Israel always has the right to defend itself.
Well it *can’t* be true...not even in the least - we’ve been told by people here that Trump is *controlled* by Netanyahu...
Folks who say he is controlled don't understand the mechanism of control.
Trump was elected because he speaks the truth as he knows it.
Trump cannot dictate to Israel.
NOW President Trump is an “antisemite,” right?
“He claimed credit for Israel’s existence — “without me, there would be no Israel””
I hope he did not say that. I’ll trust God’s word.
There’s no reason for Israel to agree to sign.
If people want peace with Israel, they can act accordingly.
Israel and Israelis strongly desire to live in peace.
Newsmax says the “Deal” does NOT include Hezbollah so Israel should have NO issue with this and they just need to release the damn thing already. Its only 1 1/2 pages, all of this for a page and a freakin HALF, just release it and we can all see it for what it is already..and I dont understand why Israel was kept in the dark, Israel is more at risk from Iran than anyone else, so they should have had a say in it
I think what he meant was that without the Iron Dome Israel would cease to exist and in a way that is accurate, imagine if 200 rockets came to Israel with ZERO protection, forget about it they would be done
Somebody is trying to depict Trump as being “bombastic”, while in reality, this is Trump’s method of opening a negotiation. Evidently AP has not been paying attention over the past several years. MANY people who have been the apparent object of Trump’s wrath, or so it appeared to outsiders, have ended up relatively close associates. Other people who have incurred the true measure of Trump’s disapproval, have developed an almost terminal diagnosis of TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Donald J. Trump is a true force of Nature. And it is not nice to fool Mother Nature.
Trump doesn’t seem to comprehend or accept that he just surrendered. Weak!
That is true.
Sources say
Bibi! (wink)
You are a wicked little man (wink)
You bomb hezbollah...bad (wink)
You make your own agreement with Iran, separate from us, bombing them some more long after we stop (wink).
And hezbollah too, terrible (wink)
They’re both the armies of god you know, said somebody who’s probably dead the last few months now.
Let us wait for the great arbiter of truth, Tucker, to tell us how this is still all the Jews fault…
Trump’s a commercial real estate guy from Queens, right?
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