Trump just reposted a video explaining that the wars in Iraq and Syria were manufactured by Netanyahu and had nothing to do with democracy.
“Netanyahu is still trying to get us to fight Iran to this day. He is a deep dark son of a bitch because he’s gotten us into endless wars” pic.twitter.com/VfiI2UPD8p— Talha Ahmad (@talhaahmad967) January 8, 2025
Well, this is a good sign.
Donald Trump has shared inflammatory video content calling Benjamin Netanyahu a “deep, dark son of a bitch” just weeks after the Israeli leader claimed the two had a “very friendly, warm” discussion about hostage negotiations and Syria policy.
The president-elect posted the clip to Truth Social featuring economist Jeffrey Sachs, who accuses Netanyahu of manipulating US foreign policy and orchestrating “endless wars” in the Middle East.
In the video, Sachs – talking at a Cambridge Union event – claims Netanyahu has pursued a systematic strategy since 1995 to eliminate Hamas and Hezbollah by targeting their supporting governments in Iraq, Iran and Syria.
“[Netanyahu’s] gotten us into endless wars and because of the power of all of this in US politics, he’s gotten his way,” Sachs says in the interview, referring to the influence of pro-Israel lobbying groups.
Trump’s aim in promoting the video was not immediately clear.
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Sachs told the Guardian that while he was not advising Trump, he hoped it signaled a shift in US foreign policy.
“I do not know Trump’s disposition on these issues, but I do very much hope that he frees US foreign policy from the grip of the cruel, ineffective, illegal and destructive policies of Netanyahu,” he said.
Jeffrey Sachs is one of the only good mainstream voices on these issues.
Of course, he’s been forced out of the mainstream.
But the All-In Podcast hosted him at their summit last year.
All-In is the official voice of Silicon Valley, and therefore the voice of the agenda to replace Americans with Indian H-1B workers. They are big on this issue. But they also do appear to be genuinely opposed to the wars, which could mean something good.
Nothing is really clear yet. I’m the most skeptical about the possibility of Trump doing really anything at all, but I’m also the most hopeful.
Frankly, I would have had no hope Trump would do anything to push back on Netanyahu, and I still don’t really have hope there, but it’s quite interesting he reposted this video.