Was Netanyahu's charm offensive to repair relations with Trump successful? | DW News

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the US has been marked by protests, a fiery speech at the US Congress and meetings with the incumbent President Joe Biden and the two candidates most likely to be competing to take his place, namely Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and current VP and presumptive Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris.
Netanyahu's presence in Washington comes at a particularly strange juncture in US politics. President Joe Biden met the Israeli prime minister on Thursday. The meeting took place after Biden gave a speech in the Oval Office on Wednesday evening addressing his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential election race.
Netanyahu ended his weeklong visit by meeting former President Donald Trump at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. Relations between Trump and Netanyahu were strained following the 2020 US presidential elections, when Netanyahu was one of the first world leaders to congratulate Biden on his election victory, despite Trump’s inaccurate claims that the vote had been rigged. Trump recently insisted that his relationship with Netanyahu was "always good."