Only I can fix it · Second term · № 51
Without him 'you would not have an existing Israel right now'
“And you know, I was a big help. I'll be honest with you. A big, big help. Somebody said in the room, if you don't have Trump—you needed a proper combination of everything. And if you didn't have that combination, which they had, you would not have an existing Israel right now.”
- Said
- , Joint news conference with Benjamin Netanyahu, Mar-a-Lago
- Subject
- Israel's existence
- Topic
- Foreign policy
- Era
- Second term
What happened
At the same event he said that "if we didn't do what we did to Iran ... you wouldn't have peace in the Middle East." Two months later, on February 28, 2026, the U.S. and Israel launched a new war on Iran; a Pakistan-mediated ceasefire on April 8 was extended April 21, renewed June 12, formalized in the June 17 Islamabad Memorandum, and collapsed on July 8, 2026. In Gaza, phase two of the October 2025 plan was deadlocked as of May 2026, with more than 1,060 Palestinians killed after the truce began.