WASHINGTON – Days after US President Joe Biden finally called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, The Jerusalem Roast has learned (because somebody told us) that Netanyahu repeatedly attempted to call the White House over the last month but kept getting the rejection hotline, after Biden gave Netanyahu the wrong number.
“Hello, this is not the person you were trying to call. You’ve reached the rejection hotline,” the message begins. “Unfortunately the person who gave you this rejection hotline number did not want you to have their real number.”
The practical joke was based on a 20-year-old popular prank back when AOL ruled the Internet. A spokesman for Biden said that the president expressed shock that AOL was no longer an online giant and, like all grandfathers, thought that it was still a hoot.
Publicly, Netanyahu laughed off the shot to the heart, saying it had advisers “ROFL-ing, LOL-ing, LMAO-ing, the whole shebang.”