Exclusive | Trump confirms he told Netanyahu hes fking crazy, but they work well together as wartime president and wartime prime minister

WASHINGTON — President Trump confirmed in an exclusive “Pod Force One” interview with The Post’s Miranda Devine that he called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “f–king crazy” during a Monday phone call, but insisted they have “worked very well together.”“I was a little bit perturbed at his constantly fighting with Lebanon,” Trump said.The attacks have imperiled US-Iran peace talks due to Tehran’s insistence that the Israeli targeting of Hezbollah cease before a deal is reached to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and then dismantle Iran’s nuclear program.“We’ve worked very well together.

I like Bibi a lot.And I work very well with him,” Trump insisted after confirming his fiery outburst demanding that Netanyahu hold fire.“I’m a wartime president,” the commander in chief told Devine for the new podcast episode out Wednesday.

“He’s a wartime prime minister.”Although the president said he’s frustrated by the possibility that the side conflict could derail a larger peace, he said he remains optimistic that he will have a deal “fairly quickly” — and crowed about record-high stock market values, showing the US economy is resilient, and dashed predictions of even higher oil prices.“Everyone said it was going to be $300, $400 a barrel, it’s 98 dollars a barrel but that’s not a big price to pay if you look at the possibility of them having a nuclear weapon,” he said.A memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran could reopen the Strait of Hormuz as early as this week, alleviating the energy pinch that caused gasoline prices and inflation to surge.But there have been several false starts — caused in part by alleged Iranian backtracking as well as the nation’s days-long courier process to avoid the assassination of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.Trump said he was in no rush.He even said it’s possible the US naval blockade around the waterway will remain in place through Labor Day — Monday, Sept.7...