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Trump issues ‘chilling message’ to foreign ally in shocking call to Fox News: journalist
President Donald Trump issued what Axios’ Barak Ravid called a “chilling message” to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday during a call to Fox News, one that carried a stunning implication.Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with Trump at the White House later on Tuesday and will reportedly brief the president about supposed efforts by Iran to re-establish its nuclear program. According to the Jerusalem Post, Netanyahu is expected to show Trump supposed evidence of Iranian activity around an underground nuclear site near Pickaxe Mountain.“There are reports now that Netanyahu is going to talk to you about ongoing excavation at Pickaxe Mountain, construction vehicles entering and exiting tunnels, paving new access roads,” said Fox News’ Ainsley Earhardt. “Satellite imagery and intel indicates that Iran is actively constructing and fortifying Pickaxe Mountain, how will we respond?”A frustrated-sounding Trump dismissed Netanyahu having publicly revealed details of their forthcoming meeting, and accused the Israeli prime minister of working to keep the United States at war.“Well, I don't need Bibi to tell me that. Bibi's telling me that because he wants me to stay involved,” Trump said over the phone. “We have the finest – because of Space Force, we have the greatest cameras in the world focused on… we know exactly what's going on. But no, I heard Bibi announce that. I said, 'Why didn't you just tell it to me? Why do you have to announce it to the world?' I know exactly what's going on at Pickaxe, it's not a big problem.”Ravid was left stunned by the remarks given their proximity to Trump’s meeting with Netanyahu, scheduled for just a few hours later.“Three hours before their meeting President Trump on Fox News sends a chilling message to Netanyahu and claims Bibi is talking about Pickaxe mountain in Iran because he wants to convince him to stay involved in the war,” Ravid wrote in a post on X."I don't need Bibi to tell me that. Bibi's telling me that because he wants me to stay involved."Trump snaps at Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu on Fox News for announcing "to the world" claims that Iran is racing to re-establish its nuclear program. pic.twitter.com/pxA3PqcyzP— Alexander Willis (@ReporterWillis) July 28, 2026
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John Roberts Sends Trump a Message After His Tirade on Supreme Court
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday called for an end to “personal hostility” toward judges, a not-so-subtle message that came just two days after President Trump went on a long diatribe about courts ruling against him.“It does come with the territory.… When any of us issue an opinion, it’s often a dissent,” Roberts said when asked how he handled criticism at a Baker Institute for Public Policy panel. “It’s important that our decisions are subjected to scrutiny, and they are. The problem sometimes is that the criticism can move from a focus on legal analysis to personalities. And you see—from all over, not just any one political perspective on it—that it’s more directed in a personal way. And that, frankly, can be actually quite dangerous.”Chief Justice John Roberts amid President Trump's criticism of judges: "Personally directed hostility is dangerous and it's got to stop." pic.twitter.com/Etrm1fe86B— CSPAN (@cspan) March 17, 2026“Judges around the country work very hard to get it right. And if they don’t, their opinions are subject to criticism,” Roberts continued. But personally directed hostility is dangerous, and it’s got to stop.”On Sunday night, Trump raged against “the courts,” including the Supreme Court, for ruling against his tariffs. He also took time to personally attack Judge James Boasberg—who axed his attack on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell last week.“They openly disrespect the Presidents who nominate them to the highest position in the Land, a Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and go out of their way, with bad and wrongful rulings and intentions, to prove how ‘honest,’ ‘independent,’ and ‘legitimate’ they are,” Trump wrote about the Supreme Court. “The Democrat Justices just vote Democrat—They always stick together! Our Country was unnecessarily RANSACKED by the United States Supreme Court, which has become little more than a weaponized and unjust Political Organization.”He then went on to attack Boasberg with similarly inflammatory language:The Courts treat Republicans, and me, so unfairly, always seeming to protect those who should not be protected. They are highly politicized. Cases don’t matter, the Judge does! As an example, how is this absolutely terrible Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell, not even allowed to be investigated for the horrible job he does? I strongly criticized Jerome ‘Too Late’ for his horrible performance throughout his tenure, which is either gross incompetence, total dishonesty, or both, and, in return for this well justified criticism, get viciously and wrongfully blamed by, as usual, a Wacky, Nasty, Crooked, and totally Out of Control Judge, named James Boasberg, a man who suffers from the highest level of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), and has been ‘after’ my people, and me, for years.Trump has long singled out judges who deliver rulings he doesn’t like. Just last month, Trump called Roberts, as well as Justices Neil Gorsuch, Amy Comey Barrett, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Sonia Sotomayor, “FOOLS and ‘LAPDOGS’ for the RINOS and Radical Left Democrats” for striking down his “Liberation Day” tariffs.
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