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.

[Dave Id]

17. accept,

for all the shit he's fucked up. "no, I never take responsibility for anything." A DJT quote when asked if he felt responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic reaching America.

[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!”

[2MuchNoise]

20. And the people covered the golden statues with tarps.

[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..

[ananda]

22. Trump is getting a hard lesson in the world outside his sandbox.

He's trying to one-up Bibi to show he owns/rules the world.

The problem is that th world just won't cooperate, clap for
him, and enable him the way people, business, and
institutions do over here.

[Skittles]

31. not me

they can both go fuck themselves

[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

[maxsolomon]

14. Who would have "blown it up"?

Fucking hyperbolic clown.

[Katcat]

15. Ahhhh

We’re on the delusions of grandeur step

[rurallib]

16. he should dress like Moses

[GusBob]

18. Is he not of German Heritage? hmmmmm

eom

[Attilatheblond]

26. AND... the 'chicken-hawk' genetic subset

[sakabatou]

19. *facepalm*

[Grokenstein]

21. Hey 'Yahoo, come take care of your dog.

He's shitting all over everything!

[Maeve]

23. Audrey Hepburn is singing in my head now

[LudwigPastorius]

24. Donald Ben-Gurion Trump

Founding Father of Modern Israel

[twodogsbarking]

25. Taking credit for the continued existence of Israel? I will ponder that one a bit.

Who gets credit for destroying Gaza? Great achievements from great men.

[0rganism]

27. Once again demonstrating how anything can be concluded from a false premise

What a load of subjunctive-conditional bullshit.

[Bayard]

28. "No other president was willing to do what I did."

No other president was stupid enough to do what he did. Bibi had previously come to both Presidents Obama and Biden with this scheme. They flat turned him down.

[MaryMagdaline]

29. So now he's Harry Truman?

[ms liberty]

30. Oh shut the fuck up, you stupid fucking git. You're a narcissistic lying diseased old man.

Die already, so the rest of us can experience some joy.