On Tuesday, speaking at the G7 summit in France, President Donald Trump criticized Israel for attacking Lebanon while the U.S. negotiates an agreement with Iran.
Trump said: “Without the US, there would be no Israel. Without me, there would be no Israel because no other president was willing to do what I did. I have had a great relationship with Bibi. Now Bibi has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon.”
President Trump: Israel wouldn’t exist without America.
Mike Huckabee: America wouldn’t exist without Israel.
Both comments made today. https://t.co/MkLcOxN1MT pic.twitter.com/mxUXy6PPnv
— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) June 16, 2026
At the opening of the International Conference on Israeli Heritage in the West Bank, President Trump’s U.S. Ambassador to Israel, former Arkansas Governor and Baptist minister Mike Huckabee, inverted Trump’s comments by telling the Israeli crowd, “without Israel, without the Jewish foundation, there would not be an America.”
The crowd applauded and Huckabee added: “We owe our very existence to what happened in this land,” he said.
Huckabee said it is his job “to represent the importance of Israel to the United States,” and that Israel’s heritage “is also the heritage of the United States.”
Huckabee says we owe our very existence to Israel.
Uhm… no.
We owe our existence to God.
So gross. What is wrong with him? pic.twitter.com/SSK3pBv74G
— Marjorie Taylor Greene
(@mtgreenee) June 17, 2026
Former U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who opposed sending military and financial aid to Israel and broke from the Republican party when she called the humanitarian crisis in Gaza “genocide,” responded: “Huckabee says we owe our very existence to Israel. Uhm… no. We owe our existence to God. So gross. What is wrong with him?”
Pro-Israel supporter and Fox News star Mark Levin had a different response to the speech, writing: “Mike Huckabee is a great and decent man who knows our founding history, which we celebrate on July 4, our 250th anniversary.”
Political science professor at St. Bonaventure University, Ibrahim Zabad, replied to Greene: “Nothing is wrong with him. He is just ‘himself,’ a true Christian Zionist who believes in Zionist supremacy. The US does not even show up in his belief system and if it does it is only an afterthought, an ‘entity’ that owes its existence to Israel, a proxy that would do the bidding of the Israeli government. And this man was chosen to be the US ambassador to Israel. PS: who exactly recommended Huckabee to this position? Any idea?”