{"id":456414,"date":"2026-06-02T03:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/456414\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T03:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:14:13","slug":"youre-fing-crazy-trump-reportedly-blasts-netanyahu-over-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/456414\/","title":{"rendered":"‘You’re f***ing crazy’: Trump reportedly blasts Netanyahu over Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump reportedly scolded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an expletive-laden phone call earlier today over Israel’s military campaign in Lebanon<\/a>, calling Netanyahu “f***ing crazy” and accusing him of being ungrateful.<\/p>\n

The comments were reported by US outlet Axios, citing two US officials and a third source briefed on the call.<\/p>\n

Summarising the US president\u2019s remarks, a Washington official said: “You\u2019re f***ing crazy. You\u2019d be in prison if it weren\u2019t for me. I\u2019m saving your a**. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.”<\/p>\n

A second source briefed on the call told Axios Trump was “p****” and at one point yelled at Netanyahu: “What the f*** are you doing?”<\/p>\n

Trump’s was anger reportedly driven by fears that Netanyahu’s escalation in Lebanon was threatening to derail nuclear negotiations with Iran.<\/p>\n

According to Axios, Trump’s concerns centred on Israel’s expanding ground operation in southern Lebanon and what he saw as a disproportionate response, including the destruction of entire buildings to take out a single Hezbollah commander and the killing of large numbers of civilians.<\/p>\n

Trump wrote on Truth Social<\/a> after speaking with Netanyahu that it was a “productive” call, and he claimed Israel and Hezbollah would stop attacking each other.<\/p>\n

\"Donald<\/p>\n

Donald Trump’s post on Truth Social. (Source: Truth Social)<\/p>\n

“There will be no Troops going to Beirut, and any Troops that are on their way, have already been turned back.”<\/p>\n

One US official claimed Trump had “steamrolled” Netanyahu on the call, with Netanyahu ultimately conceding: “OK, OK, just make sure everything is taken care of.”<\/p>\n

Israel has since confirmed it no longer plans to strike Hezbollah targets in Beirut.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu said in his own statement that the Israeli military would keep striking southern Lebanon “as planned”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump reportedly scolded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an expletive-laden phone call earlier today…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[65,42,5107,43,40,38,41,39,66],"class_list":["post-456414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}