{"id":679465,"date":"2026-06-02T08:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T08:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/679465\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T08:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T08:24:15","slug":"trump-said-to-yell-at-netanyahu-youre-fking-crazy-youd-be-in-prison-if-not-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/679465\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump said to yell at Netanyahu: \u2018You\u2019re f**king crazy. You\u2019d be in prison if not for me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump reportedly fumed at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a Monday call, calling the premier \u201cfucking crazy\u201d and telling him that everyone \u201chates Israel\u201d as he demanded Israel agree to a ceasefire with Hezbollah.<\/p>\n

Axios<\/a> cited a US official who summarized Trump\u2019s message to Netanyahu as follows: \u201cYou\u2019re fucking crazy. You\u2019d be in prison if it weren\u2019t for me. I\u2019m saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.\u201d<\/p>\n

A second source briefed on the call told the outlet that the US president was \u201cpissed\u201d and at one point yelled at Netanyahu: \u201cWhat the fuck are you doing?\u201d<\/p>\n

Two of the sources also said Trump accused Netanyahu of ingratitude during the call on the escalation in fighting in Lebanon that Axios described as \u201cexpletive-laden.\u201d<\/p>\n

While US officials told the news site that Trump was aware Hezbollah has been firing repeatedly at Israel and that Jerusalem has a right to respond, he believed the Israel Defense Forces responded disproportionately in recent days, risking Washington\u2019s efforts to secure a ceasefire extension with Iran, which is conditioning a deal on a truce in Lebanon.<\/p>\n

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Trump \u201csteamrolled\u201d Netanyahu on the call, a US official told Axios, and \u201cBibi said, \u2018OK, OK, just make sure everything is taken care of.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tFILE \u2013 President Donald Trump answers a question from a reporter at the end of a news conference with Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, December 29, 2025. (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon, file)<\/p>\n

US officials were also quoted as saying Trump told Netanyahu that he has kept him out of prison, an apparent reference to Trump\u2019s repeated public demand that President Isaac Herzog pardon the prime minister, who is in the midst of a lengthy corruption trial.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu\u2019s office did not respond to a request for comment on the report.<\/p>\n

In a series of posts on Truth Social, Trump wrote that he had a \u201cvery productive call with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, of Israel, and there will be no troops going to Beirut, and any troops that are on their way, have already been turned back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe turned his Troops around. Thank you Bibi!\u201d Trump said, describing Israel\u2019s attack plans as \u201ca major raid of Beirut.\u201d<\/p>\n

Israeli military sources said no troops were actually en route to Beirut, contrary to Trump\u2019s claim.<\/p>\n

\u201cLikewise \u2014 through highly placed representatives \u2014 I had a very good call with Hezbollah, and they agreed that all shooting will stop \u2014 that Israel will not attack them, and they will not attack Israel,\u201d Trump added, without specifying with whom he had communicated in the terror group, while also claiming Hezbollah consented to stop targeting Israeli troops.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tIDF troops operate in southern Lebanon, in a handout photo published on June 1, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)<\/p>\n

Netanyahu often touts what he says is a strong and close relationship with Trump and the White House.\u00a0However, Monday\u2019s reported comments were not the first time the US president has expressed displeasure with him.<\/p>\n

Last September, Trump reportedly<\/a> told top aides that Netanyahu is \u201cfucking me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The White House also sent what Axios described<\/a> as a \u201cstern private message\u201d to Netanyahu that same month over the ceasefire with Hamas.<\/p>\n

In 2021, Trump lashed out<\/a> at Netanyahu over the Israeli leader\u2019s congratulations to US President Joe Biden after he won the presidency.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was very early. Like earlier than most. I haven\u2019t spoken to him since. Fuck him,\u201d Trump said in an interview with Israeli journalist Barak Ravid, the reporter behind Monday\u2019s Axios report.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tUS President Donald Trump talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, Oct. 13, 2025. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci, Pool)<\/p>\n

In the wake of Monday\u2019s call, Gadi Eisenkot, the leader of the Yashar party, seen as a key rival to Netanyahu\u2019s Likud in the upcoming election blasted Netanyahu for \u201ccapitulating\u201d to Trump\u2019s demand.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has never been a prime minister in Israel who capitulated to such a demand, one that is blatantly unreasonable!\u201d wrote the former minister and IDF chief on X, decrying the attacks by Hezbollah on northern Israel.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat Netanyahu, the government, and the cabinet are doing today is harming the national interests of the State of Israel from a place of weakness. And don\u2019t try to spin tales about the connection to the US\u2019s negotiations with Iran,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cLebanon is right here, Metula is under fire, Israeli communities are empty \u2014 this is unacceptable,\u201d Eisenkot said. \u201cAnd the one doing this is the man who preached morals to everyone about the basic need to be a prime minister and know how to say \u2018no\u2019 to the president of the United States when there\u2019s harm to the interests of the State of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tGadi Eisenkot, head of the Yashar party, speaks during a conference at Tel Aviv University, May 12, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni\/Flash90)<\/p>\n

Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir also publicly called on Netanyahu to say \u201cno\u201d to Trump over the ceasefire.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Prime Minister, you said that a strong prime minister tells the president of the United States \u2018yes\u2019 when possible, and \u2018no\u2019 when necessary,\u201d Ben Gvir wrote on X. \u201cThis is the time to tell our friend, President Trump, \u2018no\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNow is the time to do what is required and necessary to strike Hezbollah, to unleash the hands of our fighters and to restore security to the north,\u201d the far-right minister added.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tNational Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks with reporters ahead of his Otzma Yehudit party\u2019s weekly faction meeting in the Knesset, May 25, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel\/Flash90)<\/p>\n

The report came as Trump indicated that Washington had brokered a truce between Israel and Hezbollah after the one reached in April between Israel and Lebanon unraveled in recent days. Despite his announcement, the Iran-backed terror group continued to target northern communities into early Tuesday morning and Lebanese media reported fresh IDF strikes.<\/p>\n

Following Trump\u2019s announcement, an Israeli source said Jerusalem had agreed to postpone planned strikes on Beirut, hours after Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said they instructed the military to strike Hezbollah targets in the Lebanese capital.<\/p>\n

Trump did not clarify the exact terms of the apparent ceasefire, and there were conflicting indications as to what it entailed from Washington, Jerusalem, Beirut and Hezbollah, with the latter claiming the truce not only prevents Israel from strikes in the Lebanese capital but the entire country.<\/p>\n

There was no immediate response from Israel to Trump\u2019s announcement, but after around two hours, Netanyahu said Israel would proceed with its earlier plans to strike Beirut should Hezbollah not halt its attacks on northern Israel.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tCars sit in traffic on a highway as residents flee following an Israeli threat to strike Dahiyeh, Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs, Lebanon, June 1, 2026. (AP Photo\/Bilal Hussein)<\/p>\n

Shortly after Netanyahu\u2019s statement, sirens sounded in the border community of Metula, which the IDF said were triggered by a rocket launched by Hezbollah that struck near Israeli troops operating in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n

Sirens were also activated early Tuesday morning in communities across the north, where the IDF said it intercepted two Hezbollah rockets launched toward the area. In the Western Galilee, an apparent Hezbollah drone struck a military position close to the border with Lebanon.<\/p>\n

There were no injuries in any of the attacks.<\/p>\n

Lebanese media, meanwhile, reported several Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon in the wake of Trump\u2019s announcement, though there was no immediate comment from the IDF.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tA member of the security forces surveys the scene where a Hezbollah rocket hit the northern city of Kiryat Shmona, May 30, 2026. (Michael Giladi\/Flash90)<\/p>\n

The latest round of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah began on March 2, when Hezbollah fired rockets into northern Israel two days after the US and Israel attacked its main backer, Iran. Since then, 26 IDF soldiers and one Defense Ministry civilian contractor have been killed in southern Lebanon, 14 of them since a ceasefire was introduced on April 16. Two civilians were also killed by Hezbollah rockets, and an Israeli civilian was mistakenly killed in the north by Israeli artillery shelling.<\/p>\n

In Lebanon, the Israeli military has said that it has killed over 2,500 Hezbollah operatives, including hundreds of members of the terror group\u2019s elite Radwan Force, since early March.<\/p>\n

Since March 2, Hezbollah has fired some 5,500 rockets at IDF troops operating in the south of the country, as well as around 2,500 at Israel, according to the military. There were at least 75 rocket impact sites in Israel.<\/p>\n

In addition, Hezbollah launched around 300 drones, of which 25 struck Israel, according to the IDF.<\/p>\n

The IDF believes Hezbollah still possesses thousands of short-range rockets, along with hundreds of longer-range projectiles. The IDF has said that Hezbollah is launching most of its attacks from deeper within southern Lebanon, north of the Litani River, and not from areas close to the border.<\/p>\n

Emanuel Fabian contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump reportedly fumed at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a Monday call, calling the premier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[290197,23,5620,12,296128,158238,296127,296129,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-679465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-2026-israel-hezbollah-conflict","tag-america","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-gadi-eisenkot","tag-hezbollah","tag-israel-us-relations","tag-itamar-ben-gvir","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}