President Donald Trump complained that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli politicians spent too long addressing the country’s parliament before it was Trump’s turn to take a victory lap over the Gaza ceasefire.
“You’ve kept me quite late between opposition leaders and Bibi’s brilliant but very long speech,” the 79-year-old said.
“I thought I was going to run up here, make a speech, and then head to Egypt. It didn’t work out that way. And you made a pretty long one too, sir,” he continued, apparently addressing Ron Dermer, Israel’s Strategic Affairs Minister and head of its negotiating team.
Trump spoke for more than an hour on Monday to Israel’s legislature, the Knesset, where he received a standing ovation and cheers of, “Trump! Trump!”
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