Special Reports & Tweets - 🚨🚨JUST IN: Tucker Carlson says US President Trump is being held hostage by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.🚨🚨 Tucker statement is 100% true. In the report below I layout how not only Trump, but America is also held hostage by Netanyahu and must break free! https://t.co/IcwcGvQA84

May 3, 2026 - Special Reports & Tweets

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🚨🚨JUST IN: Tucker Carlson says US President Trump is being held hostage by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.🚨🚨 Tucker statement is 100% true. In the report below I layout how not only Trump, but America is also held hostage by Netanyahu and must break free! https://t.co/IcwcGvQA84

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Tucker Carlson asserts President Trump is held hostage by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, claiming the President initiated a war on February 28th yet remains trapped despite ceasefire talks and plans to open the Strait of Tiran. While Iran rejected these moves over land theft from Lebanon, global confusion arose regarding Israel's simultaneous fight against an existential threat and expansion toward the Litani River. Ultimately, this analysis suggests US foreign policy is compromised by foreign interests, forcing America into a conflict driven by territorial ambition rather than genuine security needs. [Automatically generated summary]
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Trump Held Hostage by Netanyahu 00:01:02
	You said he's a hostage just now.
	You told the BBC he's a slave to foreign interests.
	Correct.
	So I just want to ask you to be sort of explicit.
	I mean, Trump is being held hostage by whom?
	By Benjamin Netanyahu and by his many advocates in the United States.
	And we know that not simply because Trump started the war on February 28th, but because he couldn't get out of it.
	He declares, we're having a ceasefire.
	This was three weeks in, four weeks in.
	He says, we're having a ceasefire and we're having these talks and they're going great and we're going to open the straight.
	And Iran says, yeah, one of our conditions is Israel's got to pull back from southern Lebanon.
	You can't use the Iran war as a pretext for stealing more land from a sovereign country.
	That's not your country.
	Like, no.
	And which, it's not just Iran who felt that way.
	I think the rest of the world's like, what are you doing?
	I thought we were, you know, fighting the great existential threat, Iran.
	And now you're taking the opportunity to take Lebanon's shore to Latani River and bombing downtown Beirut.
	Like, what is this?
	Anyway, this was all very well known.

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Trump Held Hostage by Netanyahu 00:01:02

You said he's a hostage just now.

You told the BBC he's a slave to foreign interests.

Correct.

So I just want to ask you to be sort of explicit.

I mean, Trump is being held hostage by whom?

By Benjamin Netanyahu and by his many advocates in the United States.

And we know that not simply because Trump started the war on February 28th, but because he couldn't get out of it.

He declares, we're having a ceasefire.

This was three weeks in, four weeks in.

He says, we're having a ceasefire and we're having these talks and they're going great and we're going to open the straight.

And Iran says, yeah, one of our conditions is Israel's got to pull back from southern Lebanon.

You can't use the Iran war as a pretext for stealing more land from a sovereign country.

That's not your country.

Like, no.

And which, it's not just Iran who felt that way.

I think the rest of the world's like, what are you doing?

I thought we were, you know, fighting the great existential threat, Iran.

And now you're taking the opportunity to take Lebanon's shore to Latani River and bombing downtown Beirut.

Like, what is this?

Anyway, this was all very well known.