Trump uses expletive, says Israel has to calm down
US President Donald Trump has said that Israel has to calm down after he said both Israel and Iran violated a ceasefire he tried to broker.
"I gotta get Israel to calm down now," Mr Trump said as he left the White House.
"Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I've never seen before, the biggest load that we've seen."
"We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the f**k they're doing."
The president was speaking to reporters as he left the White House to attend the NATO summit in The Hague.
Earlier, he warned Israel on his Truth Social platform not to "drop those bombs" on Iran or it would be a violation of the ceasefire.
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