Trump in extraordinary break with Netanyahu as he slaps down bloody regime change plot with brutal warning | 25 March 2026 | President Donald Trump has brutally slapped down Benjamin Netanyahu’s push for the U.S. to incite a bloody street revolution to topple the Iranian regime. “Why the hell should we tell people to take to the streets when they’ll just get mowed down,” Trump told Netanyahu during a call last week. Netanyahu told Trump the regime was in disarray and that there was a window for a popular uprising, a U.S. official and Israeli source told Axios. Netanyahu and Trump agreed to wait and see if the Iranians would come out during the annual festival of fire without encouragement, a source said. But Netanyahu proceeded anyway… Netanyahu has since secretly convened his generals and pushed for a 48-hour blitz on Iran’s top targets, even as Trump moves to nail down a swift peace deal.