U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding the Marine One presidential helicopter and departing the White House on June 24, 2025 in Washington, DC. Less than 12 hours after announcing a cease-fire between Israel and Iran, Trump is traveling to the Netherlands to attend the NATO leaders' summit. (Credit: Chip Somodevilla/AFP)
A visibly angry U.S. President Donald Trump expressed frustration on Tuesday afternoon toward both Israel following apparent violations of the cease-fire he had brokered alongside Qatar just hours earlier, in comments given at the White House in parallel with statements on social media.
Having seemingly received word of Israeli fighter jets preparing for retaliatory strikes on Iran — after Israel claimed a single Iranian missile was fired toward it this morning, which Iran denied — Trump posted on his Truth Social platform demanding that Israel stand down.
"Israel. Do not drop those bombs," Trump wrote in all capital letters. "If you do, it is a major violation. Bring your pilots home, now!"
Around the same time, Trump spoke to reporters outside the White House as he departed for a NATO summit in the Netherlands, saying Israel has to calm down. "I'm not happy Israel's going out right now," Trump said in reference to Israeli bombers headed for Iran. "These guys gotta calm down. It's ridiculous."
"I hear Israel just went out because they felt it was violated by one rocket that didn't land anywhere," Trump said, adding that he "didn't like" that Israel "unloaded" right after having agreed to a cease-fire, noting he was "not happy with Israel ... really unhappy with Israel," but was "not happy with Iran, either."
"I gotta get Israel to calm down now," Trump said as he prepared to board his helicopter. "Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I've never seen before, the biggest load that we've seen."
"We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the fuck they're doing."
Shortly after, reports came through that Trump had Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were holding a phone call. Immediately, conflicting accounts of the results of the call emerged. Trump posted on Truth Social: "Israel is not going to attack Iran. All planes will turn around and head home, while doing a friendly 'Plane Wave' to Iran. Nobody will be hurt, the Ceasefire is in effect! Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
While Axios reported, citing an Israeli official, that Netanyahu told Trump that he could not cancel the strike and that some response was needed to Iran’s violation of the cease-fire. "In the end, it was decided to significantly scale back the strike, cancel the attack on a large number of targets and strike only one target," Axios reporter Barak Ravid wrote on X.
In a statement cited by Reuters, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards said on Tuesday afternoon that their last wave of missiles against Israel had been carried out minutes before the cease-fire came into effect, around 7 a.m. Tuesday morning, in response to deadly Israeli strikes on the country overnight.
According to the statement, originally published on Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency, 14 missiles were launched against military centres across Israel. This announcement came following an earlier one from the Iranian armed forces denying any missile launches after the cease-fire came into effect.
Israel had claimed to have detected two missiles launched from Iran, to which Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said Israel would respond "forcefully."