{"id":97566,"date":"2026-06-02T22:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T22:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/97566\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T22:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T22:03:09","slug":"trump-netanyahu-relationship-under-growing-strain-over-iran-youre-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/97566\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Netanyahu relationship under growing strain over Iran: \u2018you\u2019re crazy!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They went to war together against Iran, but Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s relationship is under strain after the US president reportedly called the Israeli premier \u201ccrazy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump unleashed a profane tirade over the phone at Netanyahu over Israel\u2019s threats to bomb the Lebanese capital Beirut, fearing it would undermine talks with Tehran, the Axios news outlet and ABC News reported.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It underscored the increasingly shaky ties between two right-wing allies with lots to lose politically from the Middle East war \u2013 and who both face criticism for being in hock to the other.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump wants a way out of a war that has badly hit the US economy less than six months before midterm elections, which will decide if his Republican Party keeps control of Congress.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The second-term Republican president, 79, also faces growing criticism from parts of his Make America Great Again (Maga) coalition that he is doing Israel\u2019s bidding in the Iran war.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An Iranian woman walks past a residential building destroyed by previous US-Israeli strikes, in Tehran on Tuesday. Photo: EPA\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1db45b39-50ab-4977-adbe-c290b42284fb_1126e908.jpg\" title=\"An Iranian woman walks past a residential building destroyed by previous US-Israeli strikes, in Tehran on Tuesday. Photo: EPA\"\/>An Iranian woman walks past a residential building destroyed by previous US-Israeli strikes, in Tehran on Tuesday. 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