{"id":789891,"date":"2026-07-28T19:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/789891\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T19:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:32:10","slug":"trump-hosts-back-to-back-meetings-with-zelenskyy-and-netanyahu-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/789891\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump hosts back-to-back meetings with Zelenskyy and Netanyahu | Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump<\/a> hosted back-to-back White House meetings with Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> and Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> on Tuesday, as Ukraine seeks more firepower for its air defenses and the Israeli prime minister tries to repair his strained relationship with the US president.<\/p>\n

It was Netanyahu\u2019s first visit to the Oval Office since he and Trump launched their joint military campaign against Iran on 28 February.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu\u2019s relationship with Trump has been complicated in recent weeks by his push to keep fighting Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon, even as Trump pursued a diplomatic opening with Tehran.<\/p>\n

Tensions between the pair have risen as the war has drifted inconclusively, with Trump calling the Israeli premier \u201ccrazy\u201d<\/a> and declaring: \u201cWithout me, there would be no Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two men are each facing pressure at home, with Netanyahu in a tough re-election fight, and Trump under pressure to end an unpopular war that has pushed up prices before November\u2019s midterms.<\/p>\n

Trump signaled some of that friction beforehand. Asked on Fox & Friends on Tuesday morning about reports that Netanyahu planned to brief him on intelligence about Iranian activity at Pickaxe Mountain, a suspected nuclear site Trump has threatened to bomb, he said he knew \u201cexactly what\u2019s going on at Pickaxe\u201d, adding that Netanyahu raises it because \u201che wants me to stay involved\u201d.<\/p>\n

Far outside the White House, behind the fences, protesters chanted: \u201cNetanyahu, you\u2019re a tyrant\u201d and \u201cBibi, you\u2019re not welcome here\u201d on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Donald Trump in the Oval Office in Washington DC on 28 July 2026. Photograph: Israeli government press office via AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

The closed-door meeting, which lasted about an hour, was expected to cover Iran, a framework deal the US and Israel<\/a> signed with Lebanon, and a possible expansion of the Abraham accords, according to a White House official.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu also faces the task of reassuring Trump he will not obstruct US-led diplomacy in Gaza and Lebanon, as support for Israel among the US public has slipped, with a new AP-Norc poll showing a sharp decline amid accusations, denied by Israel, that its conduct in Gaza amounts to genocide.<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy\u2019s meeting was described by both sides as positive. In a statement, Zelenskyy said he had discussed licensing arrangements to let Ukraine<\/a> manufacture its own interceptors for Patriot missile systems.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also spoke about diplomacy \u2013 it\u2019s important that the diplomatic process be reinvigorated,\u201d said Zelenskyy. \u201cOur teams will arrange the details of their further communication. I am grateful to the United States for its firm support.\u201d<\/p>\n

He opened by offering condolences over the death of the US senator Lindsey Graham, calling the late foreign policy hawk \u201ca true friend of Ukraine\u201d.<\/p>\n

Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said afterwards that both meetings had been \u201cpositive and productive!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump hosted back-to-back White House meetings with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, as Ukraine seeks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-789891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","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\/789891","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=789891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}