By Alexander Cornwell, Rami Ayyub and Steve Holland
JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) – Benjamin Netanyahu has long portrayed himself to the Israeli public as being uniquely adept in dealing with Donald Trump, capable of winning and sustaining the U.S. president’s backing.
But an acrimonious phone call this week where the president called the prime minister “fucking crazy”, first leaked to the media and later publicly confirmed by Trump himself, laid bare the strains that have at times emerged between the two leaders.
Article origin: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/06/trumps-crazy-rebuke-undercuts-netanyahu-critical-moment
Original author: Alexander Cornwell
