A marriage made in hell.
Trump tells Netanyahu: 'You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me.'
Trump’s marriage to Netanyahu appears to be on the rocks. They’re only staying together right now for the sake of the children — War, Corruption, & Chaos.
Trump reportedly called Netanyahu “fucking crazy” for potentially upending Washington’s efforts to reach a preliminary peace agreement with Iran.
Axios reported on Monday that Trump scolded Netanyahu over Israel’s escalation of hostilities in Lebanon in an “expletive-laden” call, citing two U.S. officials and a third source briefed on the call.
“You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me,” a U.S. official told the news outlet. Trump said to the Israeli leader. “I’m saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.”
The affection is gone. The trust evaporated years ago. And now the resentments are leaking into the press through “senior officials” who sound less like diplomats and more like divorce attorneys trying to negotiate who gets the uranium dust and who gets the post--genocide Gaza Riviera.
Trump, desperately looking for a quick, penalty-free escape route from his war of choice in Iran, needs Israel to halt its murderous assault on Lebanon — at least for the time being. Iran won’t agree to a peace deal without it. But perpetual war is the only thing keeping corrupt war criminal Netanyahu in power and out of prison.
If there’s a grim symmetry between Trump and Netanyahu, it’s that both men’s political survival has been repeatedly buoyed by a system built on permanent crisis and perpetual war. Netanyahu’s corruption trials stalled, and his coalition hardened precisely because Israel remained in a state of continuous conflict, a condition that lets him argue he is “indispensable” and that any legal reckoning must wait. Trump, meanwhile, has long relied on the national‑security state’s endless emergencies, from Iran to the southern border, to cast himself as the only figure strong enough to manage an empire in decline. Neither man was “saved from prison” by the other. But both have been protected, again and again, by a political economy in which war is the oxygen of power, and leaders under legal or political threat can wrap themselves in their flags.