{"id":297346,"date":"2026-07-16T03:56:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/297346\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T03:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:56:31","slug":"trump-confirms-he-told-netanyahu-hes-f-king-crazy-on-pod-force-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/297346\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump confirms he told Netanyahu he\u2019s \u2018f–king crazy\u2019 on ‘Pod Force One’"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump confirmed in an exclusive \u201cPod Force One\u201d interview with The Post\u2019s Miranda Devine that he called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu \u201cf\u2013king crazy\u201d<\/a> during a Monday phone call, but insisted they have \u201cworked very well together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a little bit perturbed at his constantly fighting with Lebanon,\u201d Trump said. The attacks have imperiled US-Iran peace talks<\/a> due to Tehran\u2019s insistence that the Israeli targeting of Hezbollah cease before a deal is reached to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and then dismantle Iran\u2019s nuclear program.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve worked very well together. I like Bibi a lot. And I work very well with him,\u201d Trump insisted after confirming his fiery outburst demanding that Netanyahu hold fire.<\/p>\n

President Trump confirmed to The Post\u2019s Miranda Devine that he did indeed call Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu \u201cf\u2013king crazy\u201d but that they still get along.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a wartime president,\u201d the commander-in-chief told Devine for the new podcast episode, out Wednesday. \u201cHe\u2019s a wartime prime minister.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although the president said he\u2019s frustrated by the possibility that the side conflict could derail a<\/a> larger peace, he said he remains optimistic that he will have a deal \u201cfairly quickly\u201d \u2014 and crowed about record-high stock market values, showing the US economy is resilient, and dismissed predictions of even higher oil prices.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone said it was going to be $300, $400 a barrel, it\u2019s $98 a barrel but that\u2019s not a big price to pay if you look at the possibility of them having a nuclear weapon,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran could reopen the Strait of Hormuz as early as this week, alleviating the energy pinch that caused gasoline prices and inflation to surge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But there have been several false starts \u2014 caused in part by alleged Iranian backtracking as well as the Islamic Republic\u2019s days-long courier process to avoid the assassination of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.<\/p>\n

Trump said he was in no rush.<\/p>\n

Trump said he would like to meet Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei once a peace deal is reached. Daniel Torok \/ The White House<\/p>\n

He even said it\u2019s possible the US naval blockade around Iran\u2019s ports will remain in place through Labor Day \u2014 Monday, Sept. 7 \u2014 meaning a full summer of elevated fuel prices and more likely harm to Republicans in the Nov. 3 midterm elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know. I mean, I think it could be [closed through Labor Day], but I think it\u2019s unlikely. I think that we\u2019ll have it. I think this will resolve itself fairly quickly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Trump stuck largely to his optimistic framing and said talks with Iran are \u201crapidly evolving\u201d and \u201cwe\u2019re not going to have a nuclear weapon and lots of other good things are going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s explosive language with Netanyahu was first reported Monday by Axios, reports that were met with disbelief by some defenders of Israel, including conservative commentator Mark Levin, who called on the FBI <\/a>to investigate who supplied the news outlet the vulgar verbiage, claiming it aided Iran.<\/p>\n

Every week, Post columnist Miranda Devine sits down for exclusive and candid conversations with the most influential disruptors in Washington on \u2018Pod Force One.\u2019 Subscribe here!<\/a><\/p>\n

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony commemorating Israel\u2019s Remembrance Day for fallen soldiers, Yom HaZikaron, at the Military Cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on April 21, 2026. POOL\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Trump has struggled for weeks to broker an end to the conflict, which began on Feb. 28 with an initial four-week timeframe.<\/p>\n

A cease-fire has been in effect since April 7, though during the lull in fighting, both the Iranian and US militaries have shut off most commercial traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, through which about a fifth of the world\u2019s oil flows.<\/p>\n

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Trump said he believes that Khamenei is \u201cinvolved, absolutely\u201d in making decisions about how to end the war and that \u201cthey have a lot of respect for him\u201d after Israeli airstrikes assassinated his father, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and other members of his family on the first day of the war.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to meet him,\u201d Trump said of Mojtaba, 56.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d love to meet everybody. I would like to meet him, and we probably will meet at some point, depending on how it all works out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump confirmed in an exclusive \u201cPod Force One\u201d interview with The Post\u2019s Miranda Devine that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3895,153,68,14670,60,164,9,11,10,14121,87,62208,58],"class_list":["post-297346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-exclusive","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-pod-force-one","tag-politics","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}