Trump said to yell at Netanyahu: ‘You’re fucking crazy. You’d be in prison if not for me’
US President Donald Trump reportedly fumed at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a Monday call, calling the premier “fucking crazy” and telling him that everyone “hates Israel” as he demanded Israel agree to a ceasefire with the Hezbollah terror group.Axios cited a US official who summarized Trump’s message to Netanyahu as follows: “You’re fucking crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.”
While US officials told the news site that Trump was aware Hezbollah has been firing repeatedly at Israel and that Jerusalem has a right to respond, they said he believed the Israel Defense Forces had responded disproportionately in recent days, risking Washington’s efforts to secure a ceasefire extension with Iran, which is conditioning a deal on a truce in Lebanon.
Trump “steamrolled” Netanyahu on the call, a US official told Axios, and “Bibi said, ‘OK, OK, just make sure everything is taken care of.”
US officials were also quoted as saying
Netanyahu’s office did not respond to a request for comment on the report.
In a series of posts on Truth Social, Trump wrote that he had a “very productive call with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, of Israel, and there will be no troops going to Beirut, and any troops that are on their way, have already been turned back.”
“He turned his Troops around. Thank you Bibi!” Trump said, describing Israel’s attack plans as “a major raid of Beirut.”
Israeli military sources said no troops had been en route to Beirut, contrary to Trump’s claim.
“Likewise — through highly placed representatives — I had a very good call with Hezbollah, and they agreed that all shooting will stop — that Israel will not attack them, and they will not attack Israel,” Trump added, without specifying with whom he had communicated in the terror group, while also claiming Hezbollah consented to stop targeting Israeli troops.
Netanyahu often touts what he says is a strong and close relationship with Trump and the White House. However, Monday’s reported comments were not the first time the US president has expressed displeasure with him.
Last September, Trump reportedly told top aides that Netanyahu is “fucking me.”
The White House also sent what Axios described as a “stern private message” to Netanyahu that same month over the ceasefire with Hamas.
In 2021, Trump lashed out at Netanyahu over the Israeli leader’s congratulations to Joe Biden after he won the US presidency.
“He was very early. Like earlier than most. I haven’t spoken to him since. Fuck him,” Trump said in an interview with Israeli journalist Barak Ravid, the reporter behind Monday’s Axios report.
In the wake of Monday’s call, Gadi Eisenkot, the leader of the Yashar party, seen as a key rival to Netanyahu’s Likud in the upcoming election, blasted Netanyahu for “capitulating” to Trump’s demand.
“There has never been a prime minister in Israel who capitulated to such a demand, one that is blatantly unreasonable!” wrote the former minister and IDF chief on X, decrying the attacks by Hezbollah on northern Israel
“What Netanyahu, the government, and the cabinet are doing today is harming the national interests of the State of Israel from a place of weakness. And don’t try to spin tales about the connection to the US’s negotiations with Iran,” he said.
“Lebanon is right here, Metula is under fire, Israeli communities are empty — this is unacceptable,” Eisenkot said. “And the one doing this is the man who preached morals to everyone about the basic need to be a prime minister and know how to say ‘no’ to the president of the United States when there’s harm to the interests of the State of Israel.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir also publicly called on Netanyahu to say “no” to Trump over the ceasefire.
“Mr. Prime Minister, you said that a strong prime minister tells the president of the United States ‘yes’ when possible, and ‘no’ when necessary,” Ben Gvir wrote on X. “This is the time to tell our friend, President Trump, ‘no.'”
“Now is the time to do what is required and necessary to strike Hezbollah, to unleash the hands of our fighters and to restore security to the north,” the far-right minister added.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks with reporters ahead of his Otzma Yehudit party’s weekly faction meeting in the Knesset, May 25, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)The report came as Trump indicated that Washington had brokered a truce between Israel and Hezbollah after the one reached in April between Israel and Lebanon unraveled in recent days. Despite his announcement, the Iran-backed terror group continued to target northern Israeli communities into early Tuesday morning and Lebanese media reported fresh IDF strikes.
Following Trump’s announcement, an Israeli source said Jerusalem had agreed to postpone planned strikes on Beirut, hours after Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said they had instructed the military to strike Hezbollah targets in the Lebanese capital.
Trump did not clarify the exact terms of the apparent ceasefire, and there were conflicting indications as to what it entailed from Washington, Jerusalem, Beirut and Hezbollah, with the latter claiming the truce prevents Israel not only from strikes in the Lebanese capital but in the entire country.
There was no immediate response from Israel to Trump’s announcement, but after around two hours, Netanyahu said Israel would proceed with its earlier plans to strike Beirut should Hezbollah not halt its attacks on northern Israel.
Cars sit in traffic on a highway as residents flee following an Israeli threat to strike Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, June 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)Shortly after Netanyahu’s statement, sirens sounded in the Israeli border community of Metula, which the IDF said were triggered by a rocket launched by Hezbollah that struck near Israeli troops operating in southern Lebanon.
Sirens were also activated early Tuesday morning in communities across the north, where the IDF said it intercepted two Hezbollah rockets launched toward the area. In the Western Galilee, an apparent Hezbollah drone struck a military position close to the border with Lebanon.
There were no injuries in any of the attacks.
Lebanese media, meanwhile, reported several Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon in the wake of Trump’s announcement, though there was no immediate comment from the IDF.
A member of the security forces surveys the scene where a Hezbollah rocket hit the northern city of Kiryat Shmona, May 30, 2026. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)The latest round of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah began on March 2, when Hezbollah fired rockets into northern Israel two days after the US and Israel attacked its main backer, Iran. Since then, 26 IDF soldiers and one Defense Ministry civilian contractor have been killed in southern Lebanon, 14 of them since a ceasefire was introduced on April 16. Two civilians were also killed by Hezbollah rockets, and an Israeli civilian was mistakenly killed in the north by Israeli artillery shelling.
In Lebanon, the Israeli military has said that it has killed over 2,500 Hezbollah operatives, including hundreds of members of the terror group’s elite Radwan Force, since early March.
Since March 2, Hezbollah has fired some 5,500 rockets at IDF troops operating in the south of the country, as well as around 2,500 at Israel, according to the military. There were at least 75 rocket impact sites in Israel.
In addition, Hezbollah launched around 300 drones, of which 25 struck Israel, according to the IDF.
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