'What are you doing?': Trump blasts Netanyahu in call over Lebanon strikes, calls him 'crazy'

US President Donald Trump said he persuaded PM Benjamin Netanyahu to call off the strike on Beirut, following which the Israeli leader "turned his troops around". Trump made the announcement on Truth Social on Monday evening amid reports that the conversation between the two leaders was "heated" and the US president telling Netanyahu that he would have been in prison but for his intervention. "I had a conversation with Bibi Netanyahu today (Monday), asking him not to go into a major raid of Beirut, Lebanon. He turned his Troops around. Thank you Bibi," he said, referring to the Israeli prime minister by his widely used nickname.