Trump calls Netanyahu a ‘war hero’ – ‘I guess I am, too’

President Trump said he is a war hero, alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, touting the U.S. strikes against three Iranian nuclear facilities in June.

The president praised Netanyahu in a Tuesday interview on “The Mark Levin Show” then referenced the strikes that he has said obliterated Tehran’s nuclear capabilities and set back the program for years. 

“Bibi is a good man. He’s in there fighting. He’s fighting. You know, they’re trying to put him in jail on top of everything else. How about that?” Trump told Levin. “He’s a war hero because we work together. He’s a war hero. I guess I am, too.”

The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu in November, accusing him of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza.

The president, who never fought in a war, added, “the pilots came. I rewarded them. I brought them all to the Oval Office. The people having to do with that whole operation, which was so perfect, which was a total of, you know, just an obliteration.”

The B-2 pilots who carried out the strike visited the White House for the Fourth of July holiday. The pilots carried out the unprecedented attack on Iran, which has been dubbed Operation Midnight Hammer, dropping 30,000-pound bombs on underground nuclear enrichment facilities from so-called bunker busters that took off undetected from a base in Missouri.

Following the attack, Trump hit back at an initial Pentagon assessment that damage to the three nuclear facilities only set the Iranians’ nuclear program back a few months.