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Published : 24 Jun 2026, 09:41 PM
US President Donald Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that “all the Jews are sick of you” during a heated phone call over efforts to secure a Gaza ceasefire in 2025, according to a new book by two New York Times journalists.
The revelation appears in Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, published on Tuesday by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, according to a report by The Times of Israel.
The book examines the first year of Trump's second term, during which the United States brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that ended the two-year war in Gaza.
According to excerpts from the book, Trump lost his temper during a phone conversation with Netanyahu that also included two senior Jewish advisers, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
“Everybody’s sick of you, Bibi. All the Jews are sick of you. Even the two Jews on this call are sick of you,” Trump reportedly told the Israeli leader.
The call is said to have taken place during the United Nations General Assembly in September 2025, when Trump was promoting a 20-point plan aimed at ending the war in Gaza and rebuilding the devastated Palestinian territory.
Earlier that month, Israel had carried out an airstrike targeting Hamas leaders in Qatar while they were meeting to discuss a possible ceasefire agreement.
The strike failed to kill the senior Hamas figures it targeted but killed several lower-ranking members of the group as well as a Qatari security guard.
Following the attack, Qatar, which had played a central role in mediating between Israel and Hamas, reportedly refused to continue serving as a mediator.
The excerpts do not clarify whether Trump’s outburst was directly linked to the Qatar strike.
According to the book, Trump also warned Netanyahu during the same call that he could not “back out of” Washington’s proposed Gaza ceasefire agreement.
“I’m the best friend Israel ever had,” Trump reportedly said. “Everybody hates you, and I’ve stood by you.”
The book also claims Trump referred to Netanyahu as a “con man” during the early months of his second administration.
The reported remarks emerge amid signs of growing strain between the two leaders over US policy toward Iran and Israel’s military operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
In recent weeks, Trump has reportedly described Netanyahu as “fucking crazy” and accused him of having “no fucking judgment”.
He also told Axios that while his relationship with the Israeli premier remained “good”, the United States had to “keep him a little bit sane”.
The book has sent shockwaves through Washington, detailing deep anxieties among White House officials regarding leaked conversations from the high-security Situation Room.
It details a later meeting in February 2026, ahead of joint US-Israel strikes on Iran, where Netanyahu pushed for immediate "regime change" in Tehran -- an assessment US Secretary of State Marco Rubio reportedly dismissed in a subsequent meeting as "nonsense".
According to the American news portal Axios, the exposure of these classified, internal deliberations has left Trump furious.
The book further recounts Trump revisiting a longstanding grievance over what he said was Israel’s withdrawal from a planned joint operation in 2020 to kill Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani.
Trump had frequently criticised Netanyahu over the episode but largely stopped raising the issue after becoming the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nominee and repairing relations with the Israeli leader following earlier disagreements over Netanyahu’s congratulations to Joe Biden after the 2020 US election.
