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Wednesday, June 10, 2026
‘Does he want to continue?’ Trump muses about whether Netanyahu will run for reelection
US President Donald Trump questions whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will run in elections due to take place in several months, telling ABC the longtime premier is a “wartime prime minister” who Trump says has had an “amazing career.”
Trump makes the comments to ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl during an interview about the Iran war.
“I don’t know, he’s had an amazing career,” Trump says, according to a post on X by Karl. “Does he want to continue? Because, you know he’s a wartime prime minister. We will very shortly win the war one way or the other, and you know he’s a wartime prime minister.”
Trump adds that he is a “wartime president.”
Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving leader, has given no indication at all that he will opt out of this year’s election and is presumed in Israel to be standing for reelection.
He is on a campaign footing even as the date of the vote, which must take place by October 27, has yet to be officially set.
Earlier today, he shared a campaign ad from his Likud party on X.
The Times of Israel Community.