Live updates: Trump vents anger in call with Netanyahu over Lebanon conflict’s threat to Iran talks, sources say

Donald Trump’s telephone call Monday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu became quite heated as the US president pressed the Israeli leader to scale back plans for military operations in Lebanon, according to two people familiar with the conversation.

Trump at points used expletives to convey his disapproval of the planned offensive, which threatened to upend his efforts to broker a preliminary agreement with Iran.

At one point, the president reminded Netanyahu of how he’d supported him in the past and warned him that bombing Lebanon could isolate Israel further, the sources said.

The White House didn’t comment on the acrimonious tone of the call, which was reported by Axios.

Trump wrote on Truth Social after speaking with Netanyahu that it was a “productive” call, and he claimed Israel and Hezbollah would stop attacking each other. He said Israeli troops would not move on Beirut.

Netanyahu said in his own statement that the Israeli military would keep striking southern Lebanon “as planned.”