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highplainsdem

(63,428 posts)
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 06:47 PM Yesterday

'I call the shots:' Trump says Netanyahu will have 'no choice' but to accept whatever deal US makes with Iran

Source: i24 News Israel

US President Trump said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would have "no choice" but to accept any nuclear agreement negotiated between Washington and Tehran.

"He won't have any choice," Trump told the Financial Times in a telephone interview. "I call the shots. I call all the shots. He doesn't call the shots."

In the same interview, Trump suggested that military options remain on the table if diplomatic efforts with Tehran collapse. Asked what he would do if negotiations failed "on their merits," the US president said he would consider a US commando operation. Yet, Trump also emphasized that the strikes had not diminished his determination to pursue a negotiated agreement with Tehran.

Trump's remarks came shortly after Iran launched a barrage of ballistic missiles toward Israel in what has been described as the most serious violation of the ceasefire reached in early April, sharply escalating tensions across the region.

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Read more: https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/americas/artc-i-call-the-shots-trump-says-netanyahu-will-have-no-choice-but-to-accept-whatever-deal-us-makes-with-iran

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'I call the shots:' Trump says Netanyahu will have 'no choice' but to accept whatever deal US makes with Iran (Original Post) highplainsdem Yesterday OP
Bibi is not listening................ Lovie777 Yesterday #1
Yep. I wonder why. Such a mystery. Karasu 19 hrs ago #43
Because there are options. Grins 1 hr ago #64
JFC. Could TSF be more full of shit? johnnyfins Yesterday #2
Neither of those PedoProtectors is calling the shots IbogaProject 20 hrs ago #38
His message to Netty-bahoo was quite correct, for a change--- Jack Valentino 18 hrs ago #46
My thoughts ran immediately to two famous scenes... Moostache 6 hrs ago #60
Until Bibi shows orange ass face his copy of the EpsFiles. PuraVidaDreamin Yesterday #3
As much as I detest the orange blob & believe nothing he says, I still do love to hlthe2b Yesterday #4
Same here Polybius 22 hrs ago #21
and President Biden should have done it, over the GAZA genocide.... Jack Valentino 18 hrs ago #47
And with that, Israel bombs Beirut Renew Deal Yesterday #5
Not the first time OrangeJoe 2 hrs ago #63
Bibi knows Trump has no skills to make a deal Johonny Yesterday #6
Hey now. He'll take his ball, go home and blame Biden for it too. durablend 23 hrs ago #16
Bibi knows Trump is a complete incompetent who is full of hot air. He has no fear of him whatsoever. Karasu 19 hrs ago #42
The whole world outside of rural America Johonny 11 hrs ago #56
"I call the shots. He doesn't call the shots." belpejic Yesterday #7
Can we stop calling it a cease fire? dem4decades Yesterday #8
That was my first thought! slightlv 21 hrs ago #28
More Trump gaslighting. dem4decades 20 hrs ago #37
Wanna bet? sinkingfeeling Yesterday #9
First of all, Iran doesn't want a deal, gab13by13 Yesterday #10
I believe they genuinely moonscape 22 hrs ago #20
Iran is playing Trump. They know how weak his position is with American citizens. patphil Yesterday #11
The thing that sucks, is that maga and everyone around trump is telling him he's winning sboatcar 21 hrs ago #27
Well that settles that. twodogsbarking 23 hrs ago #12
Two Narcissists fighting over whose in charge! BlueKota 23 hrs ago #13
I'm sorry Mr Trump . . . Aussie105 23 hrs ago #14
wink wink chuckle chuckle ha ha HA HA republianmushroom 23 hrs ago #15
If Netanyahu wasn't calling the shots, Ms. Toad 23 hrs ago #17
How many? All of them Deminpenn 12 hrs ago #53
Back on May 4th he claimed he held all the cards. How'd that work out? tanyev 23 hrs ago #18
Military cards? Maybe. Aussie105 22 hrs ago #23
Why is Trump allowing Iran to close the strait if their military has been destroyed/obliterated? Norrrm 21 hrs ago #35
He was holding Uno cards Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 19 hrs ago #45
Who does Bibi Netanyahu want for POTUS after Trump? PufPuf23 22 hrs ago #19
Trump....and the US will get humiliated again. What's Bibi got on Donald? OAITW r.2.0 22 hrs ago #22
Here is what he has on Bibi. multigraincracker 22 hrs ago #24
Just from the way he reacts, I suspect a (literally) damning collection of videos. usonian 21 hrs ago #25
They also probably have "Epstein Files" of their own, too... slightlv 21 hrs ago #30
I wonder if he called those other "shots". You know, the ones supposedly aimed at him from other right-wing nutcases. Wonder Why 21 hrs ago #26
Israel strikes Iranian military targets, says IDF ImNotGod 21 hrs ago #29
A commando operation??? The Madcap 21 hrs ago #31
All Netanyahu has to do is wag his finger over the epstein button. Trump will come to heel. PSPS 21 hrs ago #32
Yeah, riiight. bamagal62 21 hrs ago #33
ATTENTION Donald Trump diplomacy is done quietly Botany 21 hrs ago #34
Trump: "I call the shots" LudwigPastorius 21 hrs ago #36
This is from The ONION, yes??? niyad 20 hrs ago #39
"Nobody knows more about sleeping through the briefing and struggle4progress 19 hrs ago #40
The Usrael war machine is like that movie with Rosey Grier & Ray Milland: "The Thing with Two Heads!" (Trumptanyahu) RedWhiteBlueIsRacist 19 hrs ago #41
He's delusional if he thinks that. Figarosmom 19 hrs ago #44
You old fool orangecrush 17 hrs ago #48
Don't forget to remind bibi that you hold all the cards eringer 16 hrs ago #49
He calls the shots RazorbackExpat 15 hrs ago #50
Bibi knew Trump..he had only to flatter him, court him.. agingdem 15 hrs ago #51
Trump ..... Tony Soprano....[watch] IcyPeas 12 hrs ago #52
Trump is more like Fredo to me underpants 10 hrs ago #57
What an asshole. Scrivener7 11 hrs ago #54
Sure. SamuelAdams 11 hrs ago #55
I'm thinking VonSchitzInPants can't remember what he said an hour ago and the 'winging it" is going NoMoreRepugs 8 hrs ago #58
Funny Katcat 8 hrs ago #59
Isn't that precious. Widdle Donnie thinks he controls the world. ananda 6 hrs ago #61
Lol. Piggy digs deeper. KPN 5 hrs ago #62
"...a US commando operation???" Grins 1 hr ago #65
Trump is just reacting to charges that he attacked Iran at Israel's behest. What a tough guy! Martin68 1 hr ago #66

Grins

(9,558 posts)
64. Because there are options.
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 05:34 PM
1 hr ago

Trump claimed “I have all the cards” with Iran.
Turns out he didn’t.
Bibi has “cards” but the sadistic narcissist is too stupid to understand it.

If he had a competent staff they would have told him.

If he was a competent Pres. he would have listened to him.

Neither of those exist.

johnnyfins

(4,095 posts)
2. JFC. Could TSF be more full of shit?
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 06:53 PM
Yesterday

If you have to SAY that you call the shots, you ain't callin no shots. The only shots he is calling are the ones he is letting the doctors give him that are barely keeping him alive. Let alone awake...

IbogaProject

(6,118 posts)
38. Neither of those PedoProtectors is calling the shots
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 10:54 PM
20 hrs ago

Iran has to agree to any "Deal" and they aren't even negotiating as they seem to be calling our bluff and waiting until the large oil shortage actually gets priced into the markets. That hasn't happened so far, the world is receiving about 10-15% less oil per day than before this misadventure. I will say I think the world's total oil use has now peaked and will begin it's slow decline. The western capital markets require endless growth and this will be a big mess as it unravels.

Jack Valentino

(5,290 posts)
46. His message to Netty-bahoo was quite correct, for a change---
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 01:08 AM
18 hrs ago

whether his orders will be is another question altogether,
but Israeli politicians should never be "calling the shots"
on American policies--- and he got THAT right---

It is so rare that he gets anything 'right', but he did that time

Moostache

(11,319 posts)
60. My thoughts ran immediately to two famous scenes...
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 12:38 PM
6 hrs ago
First - Game of Thrones:




Second - President Fredo (from The Godfather Part II):
I cannot think of a more apt description of him than President Fredo at this point.
Too bad there is no Michael in the GOP or Congress right now...

hlthe2b

(114,917 posts)
4. As much as I detest the orange blob & believe nothing he says, I still do love to
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 06:54 PM
Yesterday

see Bibi slapped down--even if it is merely performative.

When did Bibi Netanyahu--the immensely corrupt Israeli PM--and as such our primary beneficiary--get to call all the shots? Shows how weak the entire world, but Netanyahu especially--believe Trump to be.

Jack Valentino

(5,290 posts)
47. and President Biden should have done it, over the GAZA genocide....
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 01:12 AM
18 hrs ago

but Trump's reasons are all about being 'the biggest pig on the block'...

He sent the right message, but for the wrong reasons...

OrangeJoe

(562 posts)
63. Not the first time
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 04:31 PM
2 hrs ago

In March 2010 when Vice President Joe Biden visited Israel the Israeli Interior Ministry announced the approval of 1,600 new housing units for the ultra-Orthodox settlement of Ramat Shlomo in East Jerusalem. Unfortunately Israel has been pulling off this crap for a long time. Until we get rid of the Citizens United ruling and stop the practice of bundling large donations and allowing unnamed shadow organizations from buying elections it will continue.

Johonny

(26,751 posts)
6. Bibi knows Trump has no skills to make a deal
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 06:58 PM
Yesterday

And thus isn't fucking worried. What's Trump going to do cry foul and go home again. LOL.

Karasu

(2,222 posts)
42. Bibi knows Trump is a complete incompetent who is full of hot air. He has no fear of him whatsoever.
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 11:39 PM
19 hrs ago

Johonny

(26,751 posts)
56. The whole world outside of rural America
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 08:18 AM
11 hrs ago

Knows it. Only our fucking voters think Trump is a genius, and even that number has shrank down to just the brain dead racist fuck faces.

slightlv

(8,096 posts)
28. That was my first thought!
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 09:52 PM
21 hrs ago

How can there be a ceasefire when everyone is still lobbing missiles at everyone else? This is beyond ridiculous! Words absolutely have no meaning anymore.

patphil

(9,267 posts)
11. Iran is playing Trump. They know how weak his position is with American citizens.
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 07:28 PM
Yesterday

All Iran needs to do is keep stringing Trump along, and he'll look more and more like the foolish idiot he actually is.

sboatcar

(882 posts)
27. The thing that sucks, is that maga and everyone around trump is telling him he's winning
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 09:52 PM
21 hrs ago

They're lying to him, he's lying to himself, they don't even know what's true anymore

Aussie105

(8,259 posts)
14. I'm sorry Mr Trump . . .
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 08:12 PM
23 hrs ago

Sorry for two things:

Not wanting to call you President.

and this:

You never called the shots, ever.
You've been played all your life, by people smarter than you, by people who saw personal gain in following you, placating you.
Bibi is just one of them.
One of many.


Ms. Toad

(38,884 posts)
17. If Netanyahu wasn't calling the shots,
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 08:27 PM
23 hrs ago

we wouldn't be in this war.

How many presidents were smart enough to refuse Netanyahu's urging to start this war?

Norrrm

(5,858 posts)
35. Why is Trump allowing Iran to close the strait if their military has been destroyed/obliterated?
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 10:07 PM
21 hrs ago
???

PufPuf23

(9,982 posts)
19. Who does Bibi Netanyahu want for POTUS after Trump?
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 08:32 PM
22 hrs ago

Netanyahu says Trump is the best POTUS ever.

Trump is the POTUS foolish enough to attack Iran and provide Israel cover for other adventures.

Netanyahu and the Kushner family are personal friends and now business associates.

Trump's "I call the shots" is for public consumption. Netanyahu and others have Trump by the ball sack.

Iran's best strategy is to bind time and exhaust the support and resources controlled by Trump and Netanyahu.

OAITW r.2.0

(32,839 posts)
22. Trump....and the US will get humiliated again. What's Bibi got on Donald?
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 09:02 PM
22 hrs ago

I suspect that there are many foreign intel agencies that have copies of all of these unreleased Epstein files.

multigraincracker

(38,173 posts)
24. Here is what he has on Bibi.
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 09:21 PM
22 hrs ago

US aid to Israel. We give all that money to them so they can have free health care, but we can’t afford it for us. Time to shove that fact into Bibis face and our party needs to make that clear to us voters.
We have the cards and have to stop being bluffed by our “friends”.

usonian

(26,839 posts)
25. Just from the way he reacts, I suspect a (literally) damning collection of videos.
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 09:42 PM
21 hrs ago

Now, to say that the owner is Putin, Bibi, Musk or Price Bonesaw is confusing, because he dances to one of their tunes at a time, which leads me to suspect that there's a SPECTRE kind of auction going on for the goods. The latest turn of affairs says that Putin outbid Bibi this turn in the game.

Don't forget, we ARE living in the Twilight Zone right now, with episodes of James Bond 007, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and National Lampoon interspersed.

Here's undisputable proof.

Lampoon was on the wristwatch craze early.



Mister Bean has been both Putin's bodyguard,

Note the waiter from "Victor, Victoria" backing him up.

And James Bond's friend.

slightlv

(8,096 posts)
30. They also probably have "Epstein Files" of their own, too...
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 09:55 PM
21 hrs ago

What he did at home wasn't kept only at home. You know he had "servicers" where ever he went. Makes all the CT around the trump Russian pics seem maybe not so CT after all, IMO.

Wonder Why

(7,295 posts)
26. I wonder if he called those other "shots". You know, the ones supposedly aimed at him from other right-wing nutcases.
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 09:46 PM
21 hrs ago

ImNotGod

(1,280 posts)
29. Israel strikes Iranian military targets, says IDF
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 09:55 PM
21 hrs ago

The Israeli military is saying it has struck military targets of the Iranian regime in western and central Iran.


Guess Israel didn't get the memo

The Madcap

(2,106 posts)
31. A commando operation???
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 09:59 PM
21 hrs ago

Someone dressed in orange has been watching way too many Rambo movies.

PSPS

(15,394 posts)
32. All Netanyahu has to do is wag his finger over the epstein button. Trump will come to heel.
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 10:00 PM
21 hrs ago

struggle4progress

(126,912 posts)
40. "Nobody knows more about sleeping through the briefing and
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 11:34 PM
19 hrs ago

then making a sudden rash uninformed decision than I do!"

RedWhiteBlueIsRacist

(2,365 posts)
41. The Usrael war machine is like that movie with Rosey Grier & Ray Milland: "The Thing with Two Heads!" (Trumptanyahu)
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 11:34 PM
19 hrs ago

eringer

(556 posts)
49. Don't forget to remind bibi that you hold all the cards
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 02:36 AM
16 hrs ago

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

agingdem

(9,002 posts)
51. Bibi knew Trump..he had only to flatter him, court him..
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 04:10 AM
15 hrs ago

pander to Trump’s massive ego..say nice things about the bloviating narcissist and Trump would fall in line and commit to bombing Iran…and Bibi was right…

SamuelAdams

(264 posts)
55. Sure.
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 07:51 AM
11 hrs ago

Is he going to claim he ordered Israel to bomb Iran this weekend, or is it all "fake news"?

NoMoreRepugs

(12,267 posts)
58. I'm thinking VonSchitzInPants can't remember what he said an hour ago and the 'winging it" is going
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 10:46 AM
8 hrs ago

to get dangerously out of control.

Martin68

(28,143 posts)
66. Trump is just reacting to charges that he attacked Iran at Israel's behest. What a tough guy!
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 05:43 PM
1 hr ago
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