Trump ribs Netanyahu, Ohana for long speeches that delayed his departure for Egypt summit

Saying that he’s been kept “quite late” by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “brilliant but very long speech,” US President Donald Trump says that “I thought I was going to run up here, make a speech, and then head to Egypt.”

“And you made a pretty long one too, sir,” he says to Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana.

“But I liked what you all said. It could be worse,” says Trump.

Trump says he is heading to Egypt to “meet with the most powerful, the richest nations in the world.”

He might be so late that everyone might have left by the time he gets there, Trump jokes.

“The Middle East is finally ready to embrace its extraordinary potential,” he says.

Extremism, jihadism, and antisemitism have a been a “disaster,” he says. “They’ve totally backfired.”

They have delivered “failure and death,” he says, and have not weakened Israel.

The nations that decided to make peace “are now among the most successful in the region. They’re getting along with Israel and they’re doing great.”

He calls on more countries to join the Abraham Accords. He blasts Barack Obama for not being much worse than the Biden Administration, to laughter and applause in the Knesset.