{"id":22119,"date":"2026-06-03T17:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=22119"},"modified":"2026-06-03T17:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:26:22","slug":"trump-says-israel-would-not-exist-today-without-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2026\/06\/03\/trump-says-israel-would-not-exist-today-without-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Israel would not exist today without him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>US President Donald Trump has dismissed allegations that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu manipulated him into launching military action against Iran, saying the decision was solely his.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking on the&nbsp;<em>Pod Force One<\/em>&nbsp;podcast, Trump pushed back against claims that he had been pressured by Israel into taking action against Tehran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe tricked me? I\u2019m the one that started it,\u201d Trump said, arguing that the decision was necessary because \u201cwe can\u2019t let them have a nuclear weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Criticism of political opponents<br><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump blamed his political opponents for spreading the narrative that he had been influenced by Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey\u2019re just the Dumbocrats. These are people that don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing,\u201d he said, using a term he frequently employs to criticize Democrats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The president maintained that concerns about Iran\u2019s nuclear programme had guided his policy decisions for years and were not linked to pressure from foreign leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Longstanding opposition to Iran nuclear deal<br><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump said his concerns date back to his first term in office, when he withdrew the United States from the 2015 nuclear agreement negotiated during the administration of former President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Trump, he viewed the deal as insufficient to prevent Iran from eventually developing nuclear weapons capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has dismissed allegations that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu manipulated him<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - 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