US President Donald Trump confirmed in an interview published on Wednesday (Jun 3) in the New York Post that he had a tense exchange with Netanyahu two days prior, in which Trump reportedly berated his close ally with expletives.
US President Donald Trump confirmed in an interview published on Wednesday in the New York Post that he had a tense exchange with Netanyahu two days prior, in which Trump reportedly berated his close ally with expletives.
FILE PHOTO: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony commemorating Israel’s Remembrance Day for fallen soldiers, or Yom HaZikaron, at the Military Cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem April 21, 2026. ILIA YEFIMOVICH/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo Add CNA as a trusted source to help Google better understand and surface our content in search results.
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu downplayed on Wednesday a row with US President Donald Trump, saying they both were aligned on theNetanyahu downplayed the dispute in an interview with US television channel CNBC, saying he and Trump were on the same page when it came to tackling Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Hezbollah"is an Iranian proxy that puts all the citizens of Lebanon at gunpoint and uses Lebanon as a platform to launch terror missiles into our cities, to launch killer drones against our civilians", Netanyahu said in the interview.
"And so if we want to save Lebanon, if we want to get a Lebanese-Israeli peace, as I do, we have to disarm Hezbollah and we have to demilitarise Lebanon. And I know that this is a goal that the president and I share, and that's what we have to do.
""You said, 'Are you f-ing crazy? What are you f-ing doing? I helped you stay out of jail.
' Is that true? Did you speak to him in those terms?
" the New York Post interviewer asked. Hezbollah launches rockets at Israel, testing US-mediated deal Trump went on to say he had a"very good relationship" with Netanyahu.
"We've done well together ... I like Bibi a lot.
" Netanyahu told his CNBC interviewer that he and Trump had always"found a way" to move forward, declining to elaborate on the details of their conversation. "You have these tactical disagreements. We always find a way to work them out, and we do so as great friends. We can disagree in the morning, and by the afternoon, we have common action," he said.
"This has been a great relationship, because he's been the greatest friend that Israel has ever had in the White House," he said.
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