Trump says Israeli PM Netanyahu will visit US next week

President Donald Trump said on Friday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the U.S. next week.

Trump's comments came in ‌his speech ⁠at ⁠the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner on Friday, while he was falsely casting U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer as Palestinian.

"I am going to send him (Schumer) a beautiful Palestinian outfit tomorrow, so he ​can greet Bibi Netanyahu when ⁠he comes ‌to town next week," Trump ​said.


"He ​turned Palestinian," Trump said of ⁠Schumer, who is Jewish, while also joking that ​sharia law was Schumer's "new founding."

U.S. Muslim ​and Jewish advocacy groups have previously criticized Trump for calling Schumer, the top Senate Democrat, a Palestinian, with the rights groups saying Trump uses the term disrepectfully ‌as a slur and as an insult.

Netanyahu's office said earlier that ​he ​will travel ⁠to Washington on Monday and will meet with Trump on Tuesday. Netanyahu will also attend deceased U.S. ​Senator Lindsey Graham's funeral, his office said.

The Trump-Netanyahu meeting will come as the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran completes five months.