US President Donald Trump confirmed that he called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "crazy" and told him that Trump kept him out of jail during a call on Monday, in an interview on the New York Post's "Pod Force One" with Miranda Devine, released on Wednesday, The Jerusalem Post reports.
Reports of Trump's language were first released on Monday, with Israeli officials later disputing the account.
In his interview, Trump clarified that he wasn't angry but that he "was a little perturbed at his constantly fighting with Lebanon."
"I like Bibi a lot," Trump added. "I'm a wartime president, he's a wartime prime minister."
Trump also disputed theories that Netanyahu had "tricked" him into joining the war.
"I'm the one that started it," Trump said, emphasizing that Iran could not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon, which "pertains to Israel as they would probably be the first one to get hit."
"If there wasn't me there would be no Israel."
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