Trump conversation with Netanyahu

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Axios is reporting that during an expletive-laden call, Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “You’re f’ing crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.” After the call, President Trump said in a social media post that he’d had a “productive” phone call with Netanyahu and that “there will be no Troops going to Beirut.” Trump’s comment came after Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said they had ordered massive airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs.