Trump urged Netanyahu to ‘stop blowing up buildings,’ as regular phone calls turn hostile — report

US President Donald Trump urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “stop blowing up buildings” in a recent phone call on Lebanon, the Wall Street Journal reports.

According to the report, the two leaders’ frequent phone calls are more hostile than they used to be.

Trump has expressed frustration to his advisers that Netanyahu wants to “bomb everyone,” according to a person who heard the remarks, while a senior official in the administration says the president has grown tired of the premier’s constant requests for military action.

“Bibi tells the president why he needs to blow something up, and why Israeli intelligence knows how to do it, and when to do it, and the president listens,” the official says. “The calls are usually the same.”

In another phone call with Netanyahu, Trump expressed concern that economic strains brought on by the Iran war could link him to former US president Herbert Hoover and his failures during the 1930s Great Depression.

Trump has also been increasingly publicly critical of Netanyahu, confirming in an interview earlier this month that he called the Israeli leader “fucking crazy” during a phone call. Then, earlier this week, he reportedly told Axios that he had informed Netanyahu he has “no fucking judgment” following an Israeli strike on Hezbollah in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.