Trump takes swipe at Hillary Clinton, blasts Obama and Biden in Knesset speech

President Donald Trump settled scores with his political foes during his passionate address to the Israeli parliament on Monday, taking a swipe at Hillary Clinton and blasting his predecessors Joe Biden and Barack Obama.

Trump, who appeared before the Knesset on Monday to tout the Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal that he brokered, said that the two Democratic presidents who preceded him in the White House harbored “hatred” for the Jewish state.

“All of the countries in the Middle East that could have what we’re doing now, it could have happened a long time ago, but it was strangled and set back almost irretrievably by the administrations of Barack Obama and then Joe Biden,” Trump told Israeli lawmakers.

“There was a hatred towards Israel,” he added.

“Nobody asked Joe Biden to come up and speak, I guarantee you that.”

The broadside came moments after Trump hailed the hostages-for-prisoners exchange and vowed the next phase of his plan would deliver lasting calm in Gaza.

“We had a very weak administration,” Trump said in reference to the Biden administration.

“Worst president in the history of our country by far, and Barack Obama was not far behind, by the way,” he continued.

The president also tied the region’s bloodiest chapters to the 2015 Iran nuclear pact.

“The setbacks really started when President Obama signed the Iran nuclear deal,” he told the Knesset.

“This was a disaster for Israel, and it was a disaster for everyone.”

Trump also claimed Arab leaders now see the US revival under his watch.

“I heard it first from the King of Saudi Arabia. I then heard it from [the United Arab Emirates]. I heard it from Qatar. I heard it from many other countries. A year ago, the United States of America was a dead country. Now it’s the hottest country anywhere in the world. It is the hottest. There’s no question about it,” he said.

Trump then reached back to his 2016 showdown with Clinton.

“Everyone thought I was going to be brutal. I remember Hillary Clinton during a debate, ‘Look at him, look at him. He’s going to go to war with everybody!’” Trump said.

“But when you settle eight wars in eight months, that means you don’t like war!”

Clinton, appearing on CBS News over the weekend as the truce took hold, struck a different tone, telling the network: “It’s a really significant first step and I really commend Trump and his administration.”

Trump’s score-settling added to the day of triumph for his administration.

Hours earlier, the remaining living Israeli hostages were freed as a part of the first phase of the president’s widely-praised 20-point peace deal, which also included a cease-fire, the return of bodies of slain hostages, and reciprocal releases of Palestinian prisoners.

Inside the Knesset, the crowd showered Trump and loudly cheered as he declared “the end of an age of terror and death” and pitched the Gaza agreement as “maybe the greatest deal of them all.”

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana lauded Trump as a “colossus” and a “giant of Jewish history,” while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called him “the greatest friend Israel has ever had in the White House.”

The Post has sought comment from Obama, Biden and Clinton.