During the conversation with Benjamin Netanyahu, which the US President called "very productive", Donald Trump demanded planned strikes on Beirut be halted immediately15:46, 02 Jun 2026Updated 15:58, 02 Jun 2026Donald Trump called Benjamin Netanyahu "f****** crazy" during an explosive phone call in which he demanded planned strikes on Beirut be halted immediately.‌The furious exchange came as the US president warned the Israeli Prime Minister that widening the conflict risked wrecking fragile negotiations with Iran and deepening international hostility towards Tel Aviv.‌Following the tense call, planned retaliatory attacks on a militia stronghold in Beirut were abandoned and troops heading towards the Lebanese capital were turned back, Trump claimed.‌Tehran had earlier announced it was suspending peace talks unless attacks on Gaza and Lebanon stopped. Trump later insisted that after what he described as "very productive" discussions with both Netanyahu and militia representatives, an agreement had been reached to reduce the fighting.‌But sources have told the Mirror that behind the scenes, relations between the two leaders had deteriorated sharply.According to reports, Trump accused Netanyahu of being ungrateful and warned he would likely be in prison without American backing - an apparent reference to the allegations of international crimes and corruption.‌The president is also said to have warned that both Netanyahu and his government were becoming increasingly hated because of the spiralling civilian death toll and relentless military escalation.The clash comes amid a growing shift in American public opinion over continued military and financial support for Tel Aviv.Billions of dollars in taxpayer aid continue to flow into the conflict every year, with critics increasingly asking why ordinary workers are effectively helping bankroll bombing campaigns that have flattened neighbourhoods and fuelled a humanitarian crisis.‌Images of dead civilians, burning apartment blocks and desperate warnings from aid agencies have intensified anger across the United States, particularly among younger voters, Democrats and sections of Trump's own base.Despite the call, fighting resumed in southern Lebanon as clashes broke out again between Israeli forces and Hezbollah fighters on Monday night.Drone strikes killed eight people, including a father and his two children.‌Tel Aviv had threatened to strike Beirut's southern suburbs, sparking panic across the city as thousands fled while rockets were fired into northern Israel.Iran's chief negotiator warned that if Israel's aggression against Lebanon continued, Tehran would halt negotiations and move towards direct confrontation, breaking the fragile ceasefire in place.‌Twenty rockets hit northern areas while clashes continued near the border.Tehran has insisted Lebanon must be included in any broader ceasefire to end the Iran war and warned it would strike northern Israel if Beirut came under further attack.The region remains dangerously unstable.‌Lebanon was pulled into the wider conflict on March 2 when Hezbollah launched rockets in retaliation for an air strike that killed Iran's supreme leader.Israel responded with a major air campaign and a ground invasion in the south that has escalated steadily since.At least 3,433 people have been killed in Lebanon since the conflict began.Article continues belowThere are also fears that if talks collapse and the Iran conflict reignites, Tehran could unleash Houthi forces in Yemen, threatening the Bab al-Mandab Strait at the entrance to the Red Sea - a waterway carrying around up to 12 per cent of global maritime trade and linking the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal.Trump has publicly shown frustration with Netanyahu before. Last June, after both sides breached a ceasefire, he remarked: "We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the f*** they're doing."