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Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump announced plans Tuesday to welcome Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago resort later this week after years of strife between the duo.
Netanyahu touched down in Washington, DC, on Monday and has a brisk week ahead including meetings with top officials and an address to a joint session of Congress Wednesday. He will meet with Trump on Friday.
“Looking forward to welcoming Bibi Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “During my first term, we had Peace and Stability in the Region, even signing the historic Abraham Accords.
Initially, Trump said that the meeting would take place Thursday, but quickly announced that it had switched to Friday due to a scheduling issue.
“Just as I have said in discussions with President Zelensky and other World Leaders in recent weeks, my PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH Agenda will demonstrate to the World that these horrible, deadly Wars, and violent Conflicts must end,” he added, referencing former President Ronald Reagan’s famed defense policy.
Trump, 78, further chided that “Kamala Harris is in no way capable of stopping” the wars raging across the world.
The 45th president previously revealed that he spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last Friday. He has previously huddled with other world leaders such as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán during his post-presidency.
His forthcoming meeting with Netanyahu comes amid previously strained relations between the pair. During most of his presidency, the two courted close ties, but Trump began to sour on him during his last year in office.
“That was going to be a joint [attack] and all of a sudden, we were told that Israel was not doing it,” Trump told Time magazine in an interview published in August. “And I was not happy about that. That was something I never forgot. And it showed me something.”
Trump added in that interview that “Netanyahu rightfully has been criticized for what took place on October.”
On occasion, during public remarks Trump has also swiped at Netanyahu, claiming at a rally last year that he “let us down.”
Trump had also been vexed by Netanyahu’s decision to congratulate President Biden on his victory after the 2020 election…
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