Donald Trump spectacularly flip-flopped on his pleas for calm in the Middle East after Israel blanked him and charged ahead with a fresh wave of strikes on Iran anyway.
“We had a very good conversation,” the president told reporters late Monday—from the tarmac in New York, where he had attended an NBA finals game—of a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier in the day.
“He was hit, and he hit back, and I can’t blame him for that—but now they have called it quits,” he went on. “They’re gonna leave each other alone, for… another week, or something.”
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