(FOX NEWS) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alluded to a highly-publicized phone call between him and President Donald Trump in which Trump expressed displeasure with Netanyahu over Israeli strikes on Lebanon.
During a Wednesday interview with CNBC, Netanyahu refused to comment directly on the phone call, but alluded more broadly to “tactical disagreements” he has with Trump.
“Sometimes we have, as in the best of families, you have these tactical disagreements,” he told the outlet. He also added “we always find a way to work them out, and we do so as great friends.”
“We can disagree in the morning” and end up agreeing by afternoon, he told the outlet. He also said he and Trump “agree on the main things.”
He also said Trump has been “the greatest friend to Israel” and said the pair speak every two days.
A Monday report from Axios alleged that Trump lambasted Netanyahu over ongoing Israeli strikes in Lebanon that threatened a peace deal between the U.S. and Lebanon. “You’re f—— crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your a–. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this,” Trump reportedly said.
In an interview published on Wednesday, Trump confirmed he expressed displeasure with Netanyahu over Lebanon on a phone call, though did not confirm the language reported by Axios.
“I was a little bit perturbed at his constantly fighting with Lebanon. At some point I said ‘Bibi, we gotta stop this. We gotta stop it,'” he told the New York Post’s Miranda Devine.
