Trump interrupts mistake-free meeting with Netanyahu to declare he never mentioned 'the name Israel' to the Russians

President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.
(Image credit: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

President Trump on Monday landed in Israel and met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has referred to Trump as a "true friend" of Israel.

Trump's friendship with the Jewish state is apparently so grounded, so pure, that he would never take its name in vain — or, say, mention it to Russian officials while disclosing classified intelligence that Israel had gathered. He interrupted his otherwise successful photo opportunity with Netanyahu to say so:

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Kimberly Alters is the news editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.