{"id":688839,"date":"2026-10-19T02:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=688839"},"modified":"2026-10-19T02:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T02:35:00","slug":"trump-issues-full-throated-endorsement-of-netanyahu-ahead-of-tough-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=688839","title":{"rendered":"Trump Issues Full-Throated Endorsement Of Netanyahu Ahead Of Tough Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Trump Issues Full-Throated Endorsement Of Netanyahu Ahead Of Tough Election<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>In what should come as no big surprise at all, President Trump\u00a0has issued a whole-hearted endorsement for Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday as next Israeli prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/10\/18\/trump-endorses-netanyahu-israel-election-iran\">points out<\/a>, <strong>&#8220;This is the first time in the history of the U.S.\u2013Israel relations that a U.S. president explicitly and publicly endorsed a candidate in the Israeli elections<\/strong>.<strong>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure role=\"group\" class=\"caption caption-img\"><a data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/trumpbibi_2.jpg\" data-link-option=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/trumpbibi_2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"65e3a2bd-d83b-489e-af18-ebfb4bb4b3f9\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/trumpbibi_2.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There&#8217;s a mere nine days to go before the country&#8217;s Oct.27 elections, and domestically Netanyahu has long been accused of prolonging and escalating conflicts in order to sell himself as the necessary &#8216;wartime president&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Axios further observes that Trump&#8217;s endorsement was &#8216;needed&#8217; as most polls show Netanyahu&#8217;s coalition <strong>&#8220;falling short of the 61 seats needed to form a government<\/strong>.<strong>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump himself\u00a0<a data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117462449149582042\" data-vars-content-id=\"75e5c471-d184-4cd2-8f2f-17a6865aa946\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-headline=\"Trump tells Axios why he endorsed Netanyahu&apos;s reelection\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\" data-vars-link-text=\"on Truth Social\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117462449149582042\" target=\"_blank\">on Truth Social<\/a>\u00a0touted Bibi as <strong>&#8220;a Great Warrior Prime Minister&#8221; and a &#8220;great partner&#8221; in the war against Iran<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Israel has the wrong Leader, which would be anyone other than Bibi, America will have to do this work [in Iran] ourselves, and I am not inclined to do so,&#8221; Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The post is full of lavish praise about how Netanyahu &#8216;thrives&#8217; under pressure and that <strong>most &#8220;normal men and women&#8221; would in the same situations &#8220;would have wilted under pressure<\/strong>.<strong>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Political opponents are lambasting inappropriate &#8216;foreign intervention&#8217; while Netanyahu is really soaking in and making the most of Trump&#8217;s full explicit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-election-2026\/article-912075\">backing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<section>\n<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Sunday that <strong>Israel could face a \u201chostile\u201d US president in two years<\/strong>, emphasizing the need to capitalize on the time remaining in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-election-2026\/article-912080\">US President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s term.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<p><strong>\u201cThere is a window of another two years with President Trump, and one of the questions in these elections is who will work with Trump? Who will complete the remaining work?\u201d <\/strong>Netanyahu said.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The full post:<\/p>\n<p><a data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/trumptsb.jpg\" data-link-option=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/trumptsb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"b4009b9b-1d63-43df-8f4f-0171bed4d4b7\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/trumptsb.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Early on, after the US launched Operation Epic Fury, a slew of top admin officials including Marco Rubio admitted that the war is happening to defend Israel from the Iranian threat, and focused on preventing Tehran from getting nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The White House has since tried to downplay it, but this remains the publicly articulated rationale among admin legal and official memos defending the &#8216;legal justification&#8217; of the war. A State Department publication issued on April 21 of this year stated firmly:\u00a0&#8220;As the United States has explained in multiple letters to the U.N. Security Council, including most recently on <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.un.org\/en\/S\/2026\/161\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March\u00a010<\/a>, the United States is <strong>engaged in this conflict at the request of and in the collective self-defense of its Israeli ally<\/strong>, as well as in the exercise of the United States\u2019 own inherent right of self-defense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At this point Trump might need Netanyahu for whatever next rounds of bombing break out, but <strong>more importantly Bibi needs Trump<\/strong>. Iranian leaders have warned that if the Islamic Republic comes under direct bombing raids again, Israel would in turn likely face Iran&#8217;s ballistic missiles once again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" lang=\"\" class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Sun, 10\/18\/2026 &#8211; 22:35<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/trumpbibi_2.jpg\" title=\"Trump Issues Full-Throated Endorsement Of Netanyahu Ahead Of Tough Election\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Issues Full-Throated Endorsement Of Netanyahu Ahead Of Tough Election In what should come as no big surprise at all, President Trump\u00a0has issued a whole-hearted endorsement for Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday as next Israeli prime minister. Axios points out, &#8220;This is the first time in the history of the U.S.\u2013Israel relations that a U.S. president&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=688839\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump Issues Full-Throated Endorsement Of Netanyahu Ahead Of Tough Election<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=688839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}