AL-QUDS -- Former President Donald Trump lashed out with profanity at Benjamin Netanyahu for congratulating President Joe Biden on his victory in last year’s election, an Israeli newspaper reported Friday.
Trump accused the former Zionist leader of disloyalty, saying he had helped Netanyahu in his own elections by reversing decades of U.S. policy and supporting Israel’s claims to territory occupied in Syria.
In interviews earlier this year with the Israeli journalist Barak Ravid, Trump expressed fury at a video Netanyahu circulated online in which he congratulated Biden.
“Nobody did more for Bibi. And I liked Bibi. I still like Bibi,” Trump said, referring to Netanyahu by his nickname, in the remarks published by the Yediot Aharonot newspaper. “But I also like loyalty... Bibi could have stayed quiet. He has made a terrible mistake.”
Trump appeared to be particularly incensed by a video released by Netanyahu on Jan. 20, the day Biden was inaugurated, in which Netanyahu said he and Biden had a “warm personal friendship going back many decades.”
“I haven’t spoken to him since. F—- him,” Trump was quoted as saying.
He also said had it not been for him, Israel would have been “destroyed”.
“I’ll tell you what - had I not come along I think Israel was going to be destroyed. Okay. You want to know the truth? I think Israel would have been destroyed maybe by now.”
Netanyahu, who lost power earlier this year, once said that Trump was the “greatest friend” the occupying regime of Israel had ever had in the White House.
In reality, Netanyahu had been far slower than many other world leaders in congratulating Biden on his election victory, even raising speculation in the Zionist media that he might support Trump’s election claims.
The Trump administration was a key supporter of the occupying regime of Israel while the two men

were in power, including recognizing Al-Quds as the occupying regime’s so-called capital, dropping objections to its settlements in the occupied West Bank and recognizing the Zionist regime’s claim over the occupied Golan Heights in 2019.
“Take the Golan for example,” he says, “That was a big deal. People say that was a $10 billion gift. I did it right before the election, which helped him (Netanyahu) a lot… he would have lost the election if it wasn’t for me. So he tied. He went up a lot after I did it. He went up 10 points or 15 points after I did Golan Heights.”
He also told Ravid that his administration’s withdrawal from the nuclear deal with Iran was the most significant decision he had made and that he believed the Abraham Accords would be regarded “very positively”.
Asked whether he would seek a second term as president in 2024, Trump replied: “We’ll see, maybe I will have a second term. We’ll see what happens. I am not making any plans.”