Trump Tells Fox News He Scolded Netanyahu for Airing Iran Intel ‘to the World’: ‘I Don’t Need Bibi to Tell Me’ What’s Going On

President Donald Trump revealed Tuesday that he’d scolded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for publicly airing intel that Iran was building a suspected underground nuclear facility, while quipping that he didn’t need the foreign leader to tell him what was going on.

The frosty remarks came during a live phone interview on Fox & Friends just hours before the president is set to host Netanyahu at the White House.

Citing an Israeli source, the New York Post reported Monday that Netanyahu was expected to use his meeting with Trump to present what Israel says is evidence Iran has shifted nuclear infrastructure to Pickaxe Mountain, arguing the activity shows Tehran is not negotiating in good faith.

The report followed an earlier Wall Street Journal report that Israel had identified evidence of centrifuges being moved to the mountain complex after the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding.

Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt raised the reporting to the president during their interview, asking: “You say Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. Satellite images and intel shows Iran is actively constructing and fortifying Pickaxe Mountain. How will we respond?”

“Well, I don’t need Bibi to tell me that,” Trump replied. “Bibi is telling me that because he wants me to stay involved,” Trump replied.

He continued: “We have the finest – because of Space Force – we have the greatest cameras in the world focused on it. We know exactly what is going on.”

“But, no, I heard Bibi announce that, I said why not just tell me? Why announce it to the world?” he added.

Rounding on Earhardt’s question on what kind of response might come from the White House, the president said: “I know what is going on at Pickaxe Mountain, it’s not a big problem. We took out their nuclear sites and we’ll have to take out Pickaxe if we don’t make a deal. If we don’t make a deal, we’ll take it out very easily.”

Watch above via Fox News.

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