President Trump confirmed in an exclusive “Pod Force One” interview with The NY Post’s Miranda Devine that hecalled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “f–king crazy”during a Monday phone call, but insisted they have “worked very well together.”
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“I was a little bit perturbed at his constantly fighting with Lebanon,” Trump said. The attacks have imperiledUS-Iran peace talksdue to Tehran’s insistence that the Israeli targeting of Hezbollah cease before a deal is reached to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and then dismantle Iran’s nuclear program.
“We’ve worked very well together. I like Bibi a lot. And I work very well with him,” Trump insisted after confirming his fiery outburst demanding that Netanyahu hold fire.
“I’m a wartime president,” the commander-in-chief told Devine for the new podcast episode, out Wednesday. “He’s a wartime prime minister.”
Although the president said he’s frustrated by the possibility that the side conflictcould derail alarger peace, he said he remains optimistic that he will have a deal “fairly quickly” — and crowed about record-high stock market values, showing the US economy is resilient, and dismissed predictions of even higher oil prices.
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