{"id":32673,"date":"2026-06-03T20:58:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chillicomment.com\/?p=32673"},"modified":"2026-06-03T20:58:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:58:53","slug":"why-trump-telling-netanyahu-hes-fucking-crazy-and-everyone-hates-him-is-not-the-full-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chillicomment.com\/?p=32673&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Why Trump Telling Netanyahu He\u2019s \u2018Fucking Crazy\u2019 and \u2018Everyone Hates\u2019 Him Is Not the Full Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Trita Parsi<\/p>\n<div class=\"social-date \"><span class=\"social-date__text\">Jun 02, 2026<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Trump also accused Netanyahu of ingratitude since Trump had helped keep Netanyahu out of jail. At the heart of the matter was Trump\u2019s frustration with Netanyahu not caving to his demands to cease bombing\u00a0Lebanon, as Israel\u2019s aggression risked\u00a0jeopardizing Trump\u2019s diplomacy with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The story has understandably been met with considerable skepticism. After all, there is a long and well-documented pattern of American presidents privately expressing anger and frustration with Israeli prime ministers while publicly standing shoulder-to-shoulder with them and continuing to support their policies.<\/p>\n<p>Take\u00a0Joe Biden\u00a0as an example. In late December 2023,\u00a0Axios reported\u00a0that Biden\u2019s frustration with Benjamin Netanyahu had become so intense that he abruptly ended a phone call with the Israeli leader, reportedly concluding the exchange with the terse remark: \u201cThis conversation is over.\u201d Yet in practice, Biden remained firmly aligned with Israel\u2019s conduct of the war in\u00a0Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Two months later,\u00a0NBC News reported\u00a0that Biden had repeatedly referred to Netanyahu as an \u201casshole\u201d in private conversations with aides and donors. But even as he vented his exasperation behind closed doors, Biden continued to arm Israel lavishly and shield it from mounting diplomatic and political pressure at the\u00a0United Nations. The gap between private frustration and public policy could hardly have been more striking.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bob Woodward\u2019s 2024 book\u00a0<em>War,\u00a0<\/em>Biden\u2019s frustrations became intensely\u00a0personal during the\u00a0Rafah\u00a0dispute and Biden told an associate: \u201cThat son of a bitch, Bibi Netanyahu, he\u2019s a bad guy. He\u2019s a bad f***ing guy.\u201d No policy change followed.<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of other examples.<\/p>\n<p>There are, however, a few important counterexamples\u2014particularly from Trump\u2019s second term\u2014that suggest the Axios story is not entirely implausible. (Indeed, the report would have been far more difficult to believe had Axios claimed that Trump told Netanyahu, \u201cEverybody\u00a0<em><strong>loves<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0you.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>On June 24, 2025, after Israel and Iran had agreed to a ceasefire following their twelve-day war, Israel almost immediately violated the agreement, infuriating Trump. Before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the\u00a0White House,\u00a0Trump delivered an unusually blunt and public rebuke, declaring that Israel and Iran \u201cdon\u2019t know what the f*** they\u2019re doing\u201d and adding that he was \u201c<em>really<\/em>\u00a0unhappy with Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The outburst was not merely rhetorical. Trump reportedly intervened directly with Netanyahu, after which Israel halted its planned escalation and the ceasefire held for several months. Ironically, however, Trump himself would restart the conflict in February 2026, after sustained pressure from Israel and its supporters in\u00a0Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Another notable episode came after Israel bombed the Qatari capital, Doha, killing a Qatari security guard and jeopardizing Qatar\u2019s role as a key mediator in the\u00a0Gaza\u00a0negotiations. In an extraordinary and arguably unprecedented move, Trump arranged a phone call from the Oval Office and had Netanyahu apologize directly to the Qatari Emir.<\/p>\n<p>When Netanyahu later denied that he had apologized, the White House responded by\u00a0releasing a photograph\u00a0from the Oval Office showing Trump holding the phone while Netanyahu appeared to be reading from a prepared script. A Qatari diplomat was also present in the room, observing the apology as it unfolded.<\/p>\n<p>The only comparable example that comes to mind is from 2013, when\u00a0Barack Obama pressed Netanyahu to apologize to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan\u00a0over the Mavi Marmara flotilla raid. Even then, however, the apology took place privately. By contrast, the\u00a0Qatar\u00a0episode was so unusually public that the White House itself effectively documented Netanyahu\u2019s compliance.<\/p>\n<p>None of this, of course, proves that the Axios story is true, but it suggests that it may not be as implausible as some may otherwise believe. What is also plausible, however, is that Trump will once again fail to sustain the pressure and, by that, allow for Netanyahu\u2019s potential retreat to prove temporary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Trita Parsi Jun 02, 2026 Trump also accused Netanyah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why Trump Telling Netanyahu He\u2019s \u2018Fucking Crazy\u2019 and \u2018Everyone Hates\u2019 Him Is Not the Full Story -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chillicomment.com\/?p=32673&lang=en\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" 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