Donald Trump reportedly snapped at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a heated exchange over Middle East peace efforts, telling him that “all the Jews are sick of you,” according to a forthcoming book on the president’s second term.
In “Regime Change,” journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan recount Trump’s push in September 2025 to secure a Gaza ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.
The book says Trump was speaking by phone with Netanyahu, his son-in-law Jared Kushner and envoy Steve Witkoff when tensions escalated after an Israeli strike on Qatar. Frustrated with Netanyahu, Trump erupted, according to the account.
“Everybody’s sick of you, Bibi. All the Jews are sick of you,” Trump reportedly told Netanyahu while pressing him to accept Kushner’s 20-point proposal for peace.
Pointing to Witkoff and Kushner, Trump then allegedly added: “Even the two Jews on this call are sick of you.”
Haberman and Swan also report that Kushner later vented to an ally, saying: “I’m f***ing out. The Israelis are crazy.”
Trump, who has long maintained close ties with Netanyahu, then insisted the Israeli leader remain committed to the agreement, which was unveiled two days after the call.
“You can’t back out of this. I’m the best friend Israel ever had. Everybody hates you, and I’ve stood by you. This is a great deal for Israel.”
Donald Trump (pictured) reportedly told Benjamin Netanyahu that ‘all the Jews are sick of you’
Netanyahu and Trump’s relationship has frayed in recent months
Two days later, Trump and Netanyahu were standing side by side to announce the deal.
When reached for comment by The Daily Mail, The White House reinforced Trump and Netanyahu’s relationship and the special bond between Israel and the US.
They also praised the IDF’s partnership during Operation Epic Fury against Iran.
The Daily Mail has reached out to Prime Minister Netanyahu for comment.
There have been signs in recent weeks of a further unraveling of the relationship between Trump and Netanyahu.
This past weekend, Trump insisted Israel would have been ‘eviscerated’ without his support.
Trump also said he has to try to keep Netanyahu ‘a little bit sane’ and that he has ‘a lot of respect for me’.
And he maintained Netanyahu would ‘do as I say’ as deadly strikes in Lebanon risked derailing his Iran peace plan.
During the call with Netanyahu, Trump became increasingly frustrated with the prime minister
JD Vance has joined Trump in criticizing Israel in recent weeks
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But US intelligence agencies warned that Netanyahu would try to ‘undermine’ Mr Trump’s peace efforts, the Washington Post reported.
Asked if he can control Israel in Lebanon, Trump told Axios: ‘Yeah. They have a lot of respect for me – and do as I say.’
Trump has also been increasingly critical of the high death toll from Israeli attacks, particularly on the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon.
‘When two drones are shot into the desert and drop harmlessly, you don’t have to knock down buildings in Beirut. They could behave better, and frankly they could do a better job,’ Trump said in a press conference at the G7 summit in France last Wednesday.
The president has expressed further frustration with Netanyahu, claimed credit for Israel’s existence and has described the Israeli leader as ‘crazy.’
Israel and the US jointly launched the war against Iran on February 28, closely coordinating the more than monthlong military operation.
But disagreements quickly emerged following a preliminary April 8 ceasefire agreement, with Netanyahu pushing to continue the campaign and Trump moving to wind down a war that was deeply unpopular in the US and rattled the global economy.
Even Vice President JD Vance has become more critical of the Jewish state as he attempts to negotiate peace with Iran.
Jared Kushner (pictured left) was reported to have told an ally: ‘I’m f***ing out. The Israelis are crazy’
He publicly scolded members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet who have been vocal about their disappointment with the newly minted deal.
Critics in Israel publicly questioned how seriously Iran would approach the negotiations now that the US has removed economic and military pressure.
On Thursday Vance issued an extraordinary rebuke, warning Israeli critics not to alienate their ‘only powerful ally’ left in the world.
Vance told members of Netanyahu’s cabinet to ‘wake up and smell the reality,’ amid growing tensions between Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump.
‘Donald J Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who’s sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time,’ Vance said during a White House press briefing.
‘If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world.’
He added: ‘Anybody in Israel who thinks their biggest problem is the president of the United States needs to wake up and smell the reality of the situation that country is in.’
While Netanyahu has been careful not to openly criticize this week’s ceasefire deal, some members of his cabinet have been more outspoken.
Steve Witkoff, special envoy to the Middle East, listens as President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte meet in the Oval Office
Israeli national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who leads a small ultranationalist party, this week declared that Israel is not ‘bound’ by Trump’s agreement and said it would not cave in to international pressure.
Vance also had choice words for him and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, calling out both politicians for attacking the deal in an interview with the New York Times.
‘I guess my response to them would be – what is your exact proposal? You’re a country of nine million people. You can’t just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have,’ Vance told the Times.
He credited Netanyahu for not personally criticizing the deal, but explicitly raised the huge amounts of military aid that the United States gives Israel, its key ally in the Middle East.
