President Donald Trump called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “crazy” in an expletive-laced phone chat and admitted he was “a little bit perturbed” that Israel’s conflict with Hizbollah rebels in Lebanon was holding up peace talks with Iran.
But while the US president acknowledged the strains in an interview aired Wednesday, he argued that his relationship with Netanyahu was solid and that they clicked, in part, because they are both “wartime” leaders.We have worked really effectively together. I really like Bibi. “And I work very well with him,” Trump told The New York Post’s “Pod Force One.
In an interview on the American business-news channel CNBC, Netanyahu stated that he and Trump occasionally have “tactical disagreements” but have “shared goals” and “agree on the major things.”He has respect for me. I think highly of him. “We always find a way of resolving our differences,” stated the prime minister. The president’s remarks on the Monday conversation were a sign of the increasing pressure the administration faces to settle the Iran war as rising energy costs and economic uncertainty jeopardize Republican prospects in the November elections and stifle global trade.
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