President Donald Trump told aides Benjamin Netanyahu was “f----g me” after Israel struck Hamas negotiators in Qatar.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump has seethed for weeks that Netanyahu is chasing a battlefield victory in Gaza while he wants a negotiated ceasefire.
His anger is reported to have peaked after Israel’s operation in Doha last week, which risked scuttling fragile talks. Yet he still declined to use U.S. leverage over arms or aid—and kept backing Netanyahu in public.
Per the Journal, the gripe came as Trump huddled with senior aides, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, to hash out a response.
His outburst comes after the paper reported Trump had delivered a sharp rebuke to Netanyahu in a heated call the day after the Sept. 9 strike, telling him the decis