President Donald Trump tore into his predecessors and former Democratic rival for their inability to bring stability to the Middle East while addressing the Israeli parliament in a blockbuster speech on Monday.
The Republican was in Israel to address the nation’s main legislative body, the Knesset, and to be on the ground as Hamas turned over Israeli hostages it had held captive since the onset of the war two years ago.
Speaking for the better part of an hour, Trump declared a new dawn in the Middle East where countries that have been at odds can now come together to strike deals, negotiate better commerce agreements and rebuild Gaza.
However, the pugilistic president did not let the conciliatory moment stop him from laying blame on former Democratic presidents for their failure to stabilize the region.
‘All of the countries in the Middle East that could have what we’re doing now, it could have happened a long time ago, but it was strangled and set back almost irretrievably by the administrations of Barack Obama and then Joe Biden,’ Trump said. ‘There was a hatred towards Israel.’
‘Nobody asked Joe Biden to come up and speak, I guarantee you that,’ he added. Trump is just the fourth president to address the Knesset; former presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were also given the honor.
‘We had a very weak administration. Worst president in the history of our country by far, and Barack Obama was not far behind, by the way,’ Trump said, referring to Biden.