President Donald Trump says Israeli PM Netanyahu to visit U.S. next week
U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the U.S. next week for meetings. The announcement occurred during a speech where Trump used controversial rhetoric regarding Senator Chuck Schumer.
Why it matters
The visit occurs amidst ongoing geopolitical tensions and a conflict between the U.S.-Israel alliance and Iran.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday (July 24, 2026), that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the U.S. next week.
Mr. Trump’s comments came in his speech at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on Friday (July 24, 2026), while he was falsely casting U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer as Palestinian .
“I am going to send him [Schumer] a beautiful Palestinian outfit tomorrow, so he can greet Bibi Netanyahu when he comes to town next week,” Mr. Trump said.
“He turned Palestinian,” Mr. Trump said of Mr. Schumer, who is Jewish, while also joking that sharia law was Mr. Schumer’s ‘new founding.’
U.S. Muslim and Jewish advocacy groups have previously criticised Mr. Trump for calling Mr. Schumer, the top Senate Democrat, a Palestinian, with the rights groups saying Mr. Trump uses the term disrepectfully as a slur and as an insult.
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