India, June 4 -- President Donald Trump, in an interview released Wednesday, confirmed an earlier report that he criticised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as "crazy" in a Monday phone call, saying he was "a little bit perturbed" that Israel's fighting of Hezbollah in Lebanon was holding back peace talks with Iran.

But even as the US president acknowledged the tensions, he insisted that his relationship with Netanyahu was solid and they connected, in part, because they're both "wartime" leaders. "We've worked very well together. I like Bibi a lot. And I work very well with him," Trump told The New York Post's "Pod Force One."

The president's acknowledgement of the tense call with Netanyahu that involved expletives is a sign of...