The Israeli Prime Minister sang the current U.S. President's praises as he concluded a visit where Trump offered public backing to his government's actions, and urged American Jews to 'fight back' against antisemitism
Eagle-eyed users were quick to point out that the image Trump posted on Truth Social, featured in Haaretz in 2017, was taken in Israel. 'Is he the eagle and Bibi the windmill?' one user wondered. 'Our own fucking president can't tell a falcon and bald eagle apart,' another said
Israel PM also praised Trump for pushing for his pardon in his ongoing criminal trials, lamenting what he dismissed as '10 years of bogus investigations and a political trial'
Netanyahu's decision to award Trump with this year's Israel Prize raises the question of whether it should be leveraged to pay homage to another country's head of state, on a day dedicated to the country's independence
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced U.S. President Trump would receive the prize at a press conference in Mar-a-Lago on Monday and invited him to celebrate Independence Day in Israel. Trump said he would consider attending the ceremony in Jerusalem
Answering reporters' questions ahead of his meeting with Netanyahu, Trump repeated his support for a pardon of Netanyahu in his criminal corruption trials, adding that Israel 'would not exist' without him as a wartime prime minister
Trump said he would back military action if Iran continued building up its nuclear capabilities. He also said he hopes to move to the next stage of the Gaza cease-fire 'quickly,' and that there 'has to be a disarmament of Hamas.' According to Trump, he and Netanyahu 'don't agree 100 percent' on West Bank policies
Sources familiar with the details of the visit said they are struggling to assess whether Trump will take a friendly or hostile approach toward Netanyahu. 'With Trump, you never know,' one said
If Trump truly wants peace, he must force Netanyahu to move on to the second phase of the agreement and put a price on any attempt to delay, drag his feet or play for time. Such tactics are meant to benefit only Netanyahu and his government
In a sharply partisan celebration, Trump claimed many members of Congress now 'hate Israel.' He also brought on stage several Jewish backers, including megadonor Miriam Adelson, who urged him to seek an unconstitutional third term
Trump administration pressures mediators for Hamas disarmament and Israel to forgo the Yellow Line border, to secure Board of Peace's ability to govern the entire Strip and deploy the international stabilization force
It has not been announced whether the two will meet at the White House or in Trump's Mar-A-Lago club. Trump invited Netanyahu during a phone conversation last week, which, according to Israel's Channel 12, also dealt with Netanyahu's pardon request
A federal judge questioned why ICE blocked Tufts PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk from campus work after her Gaza op-ed, raising concerns about retaliation for protected speech.
According to a Channel 12 News report, Trump pressed Netanyahu on killing Rafah tunnel militants and told Israel to 'take it easy' in Syria, as Netanyahu struck a softer tone during a visit to an IDF enlistment center and framed his pardon plea as a bid for national 'healing' – without admitting any guilt
Trump ordered a report by his top cabinet secretaries on designating Muslim Brotherhood chapters as terrorist groups, while Netanyahu announced plans to ban the organization in Israel in what is seen as an effort to limit Arab parties' Knesset participation
Trump's repeated praise of the incoming mayor punctuated the meeting, as Mamdani pledged to address living costs and antisemitism in the city, adding that even Trump voters told him they were 'tired of seeing tax dollars fund endless wars' and Israeli violations of human rights
Trump denounced ABC News' Mary Bruce as a 'terrible reporter,' threatening the network's license after she questioned Prince Mohammed bin Salman about the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, calling the slain journalist 'controversial' and countering U.S. intelligence linking the Saudi Crown Prince to the murder
Trump, in his summit with the Saudi Crown Prince, has created a new balance of mutual American–Saudi dependency in which Riyadh holds equal weight to Washington ■ In this equilibrium, Israel's standing is shrinking from that of a strategic ally to a 'tactical component,' fully subordinate to the dictates of the American administration