Likud minister blasts Trump as ‘unpredictable,’ unreliable

Regional Cooperation Minister David Amsalem lashes out at Donald Trump, saying he expects more in the way of cooperation from the US president.

“Trump until now has acted in Israel’s interest, but it turns out that this guy is unpredictable,” he tells Kan radio of the famously mercurial president. “Every day he is on a different side.”

Praising former US president Joe Biden as someone “who really loved Israel,” Amsalem says Trump can’t be relied upon, specifically mentioning his agreement to stop attacking Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels.

“We are dealing with a president that gets up in the morning with A, at night decides B and afterward C and does D,” says the Likud minister, who is considered a close ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “It confuses the whole world on every subject. When you are leading the world, there is a way of doing things, there is a method, consistency.”

He describes the lack of coordination between Washington and Jerusalem on regional issues, including negotiating the release of hostage Edan Alexander, as “a serious thing. It’s breaking every norm there ever was between Israel and the US.”