Trump Says Israel Wouldn't Exist Without Him

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Source: Newsweek

Published Jun 16, 2026 at 07:09 AM EDT updated Jun 16, 2026 at 10:34 AM EDT


President Donald Trump signaled a deepening rift with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by claiming "there would be no Israel" without him in a stinging rebuke at the G7 (Group of Seven) summit.

Trump has displayed increasing frustration with his ally in recent weeks as the United States attempted to strike a peace deal with Iran, before an agreement was eventually reached on Sunday. Trump and Netanyahu ordered joint United States and Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28 with the stated aim of destroying the Islamic Republic's ability to make a nuclear weapon.

Speaking alongside Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, at the summit of the world's biggest economies in Évian-les-Bains, France, Trump said: “Without the United States, there would be no Israel. Without me, there would be no Israel, because no other president was willing to do what I did.”

"Israel would have been blown up a long time ago, had I not gotten involved," said Trump, although he denied frustration with Netanyahu, saying the two had “a great relationship,” but he criticized a recent Israeli attack in Lebanon and said too many civilians were being killed. Referring to an unspecified Israeli strike, Trump said: "I saw that attack, I saw where that bomb went. That was vicious." Trump said as he also warned Netanyahu to be "more responsible" with respect to Lebanon.



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[mdbl]

1. Dump takes credit for everything, including everything he had nothing to do with.

Typical narcissist.

[Lovie777]

2. Oh shit...

shithole doesn’t care about Ukraine or the USA.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

3. Yikes!! He'll say anything

[Miguelito Loveless]

4. But, was an agreement "reached on Sunday"?

We have to wait until Friday to know that, but given that the Iran version of the "memorandum of understanding" had as its FIRST condition that bombing cessation included Lebanon, and Israel said it has no intention of being bound by any agreement between the US and Iran, it seems unlikely a deal has actually been agreed to.

[Initech]

5. Please, please go fuck all of the way off, Donny!

[2MuchNoise]

6. In the beginning, trump created the heavens and the earth.

[tanyev]

10. Then Trump looked over all he had made and said, "This is a dump."

“I hereby order that every place where people live have statues and portraits of me and that they be covered in gold. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

[Multichromatic]

7. Trump and Netanyahu ALWAYS stab their "friends" in the back. Did they not know that about each other?

[dem4decades]

8. It's about time Israel acknowledges their existence is due to Trump.

[agingdem]

9. I'm not a Bibi fan but I

want Bibi to torch Trump with history,…I want him to flay the insane son of a bitch with the ease at which he manipulated the vapid clown into a winless war… how he praised Trump as a great leader, appealed to his insatiable ego… and just like that Trump, high on Bibi’s flattery, bombed Iran convinced the Iranian leadership would capitulate to his demands in days..

[hamsterjill]

11. Why doesn't the sombitch just come on out and say it plainly for his ardent Christian nationalist followers?

"I am God".

We all know that's what he thinks. I want to hear him say it, and as a Christian myself, I want to have them explain to me why him saying that would be okay with them.

[mwmisses4289]

12. Isn't there some thing about the followers of the antichrist believing it is god?

And t is the antichrist, is he not?

[orangecrush]

13. Please make it STOP