“Putin told Trump: ‘maybe they should name all of Israel after you'”: Listen to Peter Baker – Haaretz Podcast

2022-09-28 10:44:25

Former US president Donald Trump divided the Jewish community and American Jews from Israel “just as he divided his political party, he divided his White House staff and he even divided his own family,” says Peter Baker, chief House correspondent White for the New York Times on the latest episode of Haaretz Weekly.

In the interview, Baker shares funny stories about the time King Abdullah of Jordan “almost had a heart attack” when Trump told him on the phone that he was “giving him the West Bank” and when the President told him. Vladimir Putin got so tired of Trump’s bragging about having places named after him that Putin said, “maybe they should just name all of Israel after you, Donald.”