Bibi and Trump: News Outlets Over-Interpret Minor Details
1st August 2026
Even mind-readers have to have something to work with.
How long and warm were the handshakes? How was the body language? How did Trump’s voice sound?
What White House door did the Israeli Prime Minister use to go in and see the President?
On – and on and on – went these and other questions from the American media as Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu arrived at the White House for his latest meeting with President Trump.
There are multiple examples of this kind of media scrutiny of the President and the Trump White House, where minor details are over-interpreted and become major obsessions, as the two leaders met.