{"id":83695,"date":"2026-06-17T08:01:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83695"},"modified":"2026-06-17T08:04:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:04:49","slug":"trump-goes-after-netanyahu-as-he-pursues-deal-with-iran-putting-their-friendship-to-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/trump-goes-after-netanyahu-as-he-pursues-deal-with-iran-putting-their-friendship-to-the-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Goes After Netanyahu As He Pursues Deal With Iran, Putting Their Friendship To The Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Associated Press:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Donald Trump\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-israel-hamas-war-ceasefire-hostages-egypt-6347e7da64f6c97b95109558096c0b6c\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">last year<\/a><\/span>\u00a0that he was the \u201cgreatest friend Israel ever had in the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, as Trump tries to finalize a deal to end the war with Iran, he\u2019s unloading on Netanyahu with rhetoric that no other American leader has dared to use publicly.\u00a0He claimed credit for Israel\u2019s existence \u2014 \u201cwithout me, there would be no Israel\u201d \u2014 and cursed his judgment in interviews. He even described him as\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lebanon-hezbollah-israel-tyre-khaldeh-beirut-b8e36e6248adcb00bc979f2b95514f97\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">\u201ccra<\/a>zy.\u201d The tension comes as Trump criticizes recent Israeli attacks in Lebanon, which threatened to jeopardize negotiations between Washington and Tehran. Trump has been pushing for a deal as he faces political blowback at home, where the war is unpopular and has driven up gasoline prices.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Associated Press: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Donald Trump\u00a0last year\u00a0that he was the \u201cgreatest friend Israel ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83697,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83695\/revisions\/83697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}