Despite US intelligence and military officials warning of the risk of Iranian attacks on US allies in the Gulf and of the possibility of the Strait of Hormuz<\/a> being closed, the\u00a0Guardian reported that Netanyahu and members of the Trump administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth<\/a>, argued that the IRGC would not have the strength to do so.\u00a0<\/p>\n By the end of March, when US bases had been attacked, the strait had been closed, and the Iranian people did not rise up against their government, \u201cthere were signs that Trump was very disappointed with Netanyahu,\u201d Pinkas told the Guardian.\u00a0<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s references to Israel and Netanyahu in public statements diminished, and Israel began to be left out of the loop regarding negotiations, according to the Guardian.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Guardian also referenced Trump\u2019s condemnation of the Israeli strikes on Iran\u2019s South Pars gasfield, when Trump said that he had told Netanyahu \u201cnot to do that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Trump also announced that Israel was \u201cprohibited\u201d from bombing Lebanon by the US, adding \u201cenough is enough,\u201d in a public rebuke to Netanyahu after the Prime Minister said that the ceasefire agreed upon between the US and Iran did not include Lebanon.<\/p>\n The Guardian also cited former US ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro as saying Trump wants the war to have been resolved before his upcoming trip to China.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cOtherwise, he will be in the position of a supplicant seeking Xi Jinping\u2019s help to get them to convince Iran to accept his terms or to make concessions they haven\u2019t made,\u201d Shapiro told The Guardian.<\/p>\n However, according to the Guardian, even if Netanyahu is forced to accept a temporary peace deal that is unfavorable to him, it will only be a matter of time until Trump is focused elsewhere, and Israel will have more freedom.\u00a0<\/p>\n Former national security advisor to Trump, John Bolton, has also pointed out that Trump and Netanyahu\u2019s political bond is too strong to easily dissolve, and said that Trump is \u201cstill giving Netanyahu a pretty free hand in Lebanon.\u201d<\/p>\n Pinkas agreed with this analysis, telling the Guardian that the war in Iran is expected to hurt both politicians in the upcoming elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThis affects Netanyahu politically, and this affects Trump politically. In other words, they have screwed each other pretty badly,\u201d Pinkas told the Guardian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump\u2019s relationship has been fraying after Netanyahu talked Trump into…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":787892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[372,69,83,5241,99,50,271042,31231],"class_list":{"0":"post-787891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-irgc","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-us-israel-iran","15":"tag-us-israel"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116553749805350393","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"US](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/699721.jpeg\"\/)
US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a press conference after meeting at Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, US, December 29, 2025. (credit: REUTERS\/JONATHAN ERNST)Trump expresses disappointment with Netanyahu\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n