Comment by dgellow

I don’t think the claim is puppet mastering, more the fact that Trump is very easy to manipulate by inflating his ego, something Netanyahu has been doing publicly since a while. Though the reporting is pretty confusing, it’s not clear if Trump is the one who convinced Netanyahu to go in or the other way. The various leaked meetings are all from anonymous sources. The result is the same though, at least for now. Might as well focus on the economic aspects you mentioned. In any case the global economy is fucked for a while