President Donald Trump lambasted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday after Israel launched fresh attacks on Lebanon, saying on social media:“Let’s not blow it!”
A Fox News reporter said Trump told him he called Netanyahu and said, “What the f— are you doing?” Trump said he told Netanyahu not to launch more strikes against Hezbollah targets with a potential deal on the horizon, Fox News correspondent Trey Yingst reported.
Yingst also said the president told him he believed an agreement with Iran would be signed electronically on Sunday, which happens to be his 80th birthday, to be followed by an in-person signing in one week in Europe. MS NOW has not independently confirmed that reporting and Iran signaled Saturday it would not be signing a deal on Sunday, according to Reuters, citing Iranian state media.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that Trump and Vice President JD Vance “have every intent of getting this done today.”
But on the same day that Trump said he expected to sign an elusive deal with Iranian leaders to end the war, the Israeli military bombarded Beirut’s southern suburbs with airstrikes, angering the president.
“This morning’s attack on Beirut should not have happened, particularly on a special day when we are so close to a Peace Deal with Iran. Israel has the right to defend itself against threats, but the attack it was responding to was very small and meaningless, nobody was hurt, injured, or killed, and should not disrupt this important process,” Trump wrote on his social media platform, adding that “this could be the beginning of a long and beautiful peace — Let’s not blow it!”
The Israeli Defense Forces justified the attack, saying in a statement posted to X that a Hezbollah command center in Dahieh, Beirut, used “to advance terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians & IDF soldiers operating in southern Lebanon” was struck “following their launch of aerial targets toward Israel.”