{"id":500292,"date":"2026-06-19T04:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/500292\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T04:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:47:08","slug":"netanyahu-hoped-his-trump-card-would-win-him-israels-upcoming-election-instead-he-gets-a-daily-dose-of-humiliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/500292\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu Hoped His Trump Card Would Win Him Israel&#8217;s Upcoming Election. Instead, He Gets a Daily Dose of Humiliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">A visit to Israel by U.S. President Donald Trump was supposed to be the winning card for the Likud party in the fall election. In Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s fantasies, the beloved American leader would give him the kind of &#8220;endorsement&#8221; that only Trump can \u2013 with all the superlatives about Netanyahu being a &#8220;wartime prime minister, without whom Israel would have been destroyed, and that there&#8217;s no one around who could match his stature. Trump would also declare President Isaac Herzog wretched and evil. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A visit to Israel by U.S. President Donald Trump was supposed to be the winning card for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,1982,54,955,86,85,87,46,2649,837,21141,43,19344],"class_list":["post-500292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-bezalel-smotrich","tag-donald-trump","tag-gadi-eisenkot","tag-hezbollah","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-israeli-elections","tag-itamar-ben-gvir","tag-likud","tag-news","tag-yair-lapid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}