In what should come as no big surprise at all, President Trump has issued a whole-hearted endorsement for Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday as next Israeli prime minister.
Axios points out, "This is the first time in the history of the U.S.–Israel relations that a U.S. president explicitly and publicly endorsed a candidate in the Israeli elections."
Getty ImagesThere's a mere nine days to go before the country's Oct.27 elections, and domestically Netanyahu has long been accused of prolonging and escalating conflicts in order to sell himself as the necessary 'wartime president'.
Axios further observes that Trump's endorsement was 'needed' as most polls show Netanyahu's coalition "falling short of the 61 seats needed to form a government."
Trump himself on Truth Social touted Bibi as "a Great Warrior Prime Minister" and a "great partner" in the war against Iran.
"If Israel has the wrong Leader, which would be anyone other than Bibi, America will have to do this work [in Iran] ourselves, and I am not inclined to do so," Trump wrote.
The post is full of lavish praise about how Netanyahu 'thrives' under pressure and that most "normal men and women" would in the same situations "would have wilted under pressure."
Political opponents are lambasting inappropriate 'foreign intervention' while Netanyahu is really soaking in and making the
