In arguably the most explosive diplomatic revelation of the week, US President Donald Trump confirmed that he called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “f*ing crazy” during a heated phone conversation about Israel’s military operations in Lebanon.
Speaking on the New York Post’s Pod Force One podcast, Trump acknowledged the language attributed to him by an earlier Axios report. According to that reporting, Trump had angrily urged Netanyahu to cancel planned strikes on Beirut, warning that further escalation could jeopardize ongoing US-Iran negotiations and a fragile regional ceasefire.
The confirmation is remarkable not only for its rawness but for what it signals about the state of the US-Israel relationship at a moment of acute Middle Eastern tension. A sitting president publicly owning up to berating a key ally in such blunt terms is virtually without precedent.
