Netanyahu on Trump call: Sometimes we have disagreements, as in the best of families. He respects me, I respect him

In an interview with CNBC, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not deny having a difficult conversation with Trump during a phone call on Monday, but downplays the significance of the matter.

“I’m not going to get into details of our conversations. We’ve had thousands, well, a lot of them,” he says. “And if you think this is a crisis, you should be in some other conversations. But we’ve always found a way.”

He says he and Trump agree on “the main things,” including the necessity of preventing Iran from posing a threat to Israel, the region and the world.

Netanyahu @CNBC : https://t.co/j3LQ6j3N5M pic.twitter.com/B221yN0Mq9

— Iris (@streetwize) June 3, 2026

“We have common goals. Sometimes we have, as in the best of families, you have these tactical disagreements,” he says. “We always find a way to work them out. And we do so as great friends. We can disagree in the morning, and by the afternoon, we have common actions. He respects me. I respect him. We always find a way to work out our differences.”

Asked about Trump reportedly telling him he’d “be in prison if it weren’t for me,” Netanyahu says, “I’m not going to get into the details, but he’s been very vocal about the absurdity of this fake trial that I’m going through.”