President Trump reportedly said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “knows who the boss is” ahead of a potential high-stakes meeting between the two leaders.
Netanyahu and Trump are reportedly planning their eighth face-to-face meeting since Trump returned to the White House. This comes after a temporary resumption in the Iran war with the US launching multiple strikes in response to hostilities in the Strait of Hormuz.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, the US and Iran agreed to halt strikes and meet in Doha last weekend after the US launched multiple strikes against Iran in response to Iran targeting commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. Trump told reporters earlier this week, “We hit them very hard for three nights, as you know, but we’re getting along very well, so I call it the denuclearization, and it’s all taking place. It’s all going well.”
On Saturday, Trump told Axios’s Barak Ravid during a phone interview, “We get along very good. [Netanyahu] knows who the boss is.”
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This would be the first meeting between the two leaders since their dramatic Situation Room meeting in February, when Netanyahu presented his plan for launching a joint war against Iran.
An Israeli official said next week might be too soon for the visit to take place because of Trump’s trip to Turkey, where the NATO summit will take place on July 7-8.
“It might take place the week after,” the official said.
The Israeli prime minister’s office said Netanyahu called Trump on Friday to congratulate him on the 250th Independence Day of the United States.
This comes amid reported tensions between Trump and Netanyahu, with Trump calling Netanyahu out at the G7 Summit in Evian, France, last month over Israeli attacks in Lebanon, which almost caused his memorandum of understanding with Iran to collapse.
“You don’t have to knock down an apartment house every time you’re looking for somebody because there are a lot of people in those apartment houses, and they’re not all Hezbollah, that I can tell you,” Trump said, condemning Netanyahu’s attacks in Beirut, Lebanon. “I didn’t like where two hours before we’re signing the agreement that there was an attack in Lebanon, in Beirut. It wasn’t like in the southern side, and you know, it was in Beirut. I did not like that. I let him know that I didn’t like it, not at all.”
Previously, Trump lashed out at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a heated phone call, with reports suggesting that Trump called him “f*cking crazy” for continuing the war amid US-Iran negotiations, accused Netanyahu of ingratitude, and referenced helping keep him out of jail during his corruption trial.
Vice President JD Vance also slammed Israeli officials during a White House press briefing last month for perceived ingratitude, noting that “over the last three months, two-thirds of the defensive weapons that have protected your homeland have been built by American hands and paid for by American tax dollars.”
“The problem for Israel is not Donald J. Trump, and anybody in Israel who thinks their biggest problem is the President of the United States needs to wake up and smell the reality of the situation that country is in,” Vance said in response to reported criticisms of the memorandum of understanding.
An earlier report from Axios suggested that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu was fuming over the memorandum of understanding with Iran, namely, the ceasefire requirement between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. A Netanyahu advisor reportedly said that Israel does not consider itself bound to that part of the deal and would not withdraw troops from Lebanon.
Axios reported on Saturday that a US official said, “Many of Trump’s closest advisers think that Bibi was wrong about everything.”
This is a developing story.
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