This is a perfect example of Trump putting out conflicting narratives and the media being complicit,
How is Trump vetoing what Israel is doing while simultaneously Israel is carrying out attacks on Tehran without asking for permission?
Is Trump calling the shots or not?
Again, when you say this is an example of Trump putting out conflicting narratives I think you're giving him too much credit. He's not some grand master strategist who is playing the world like a fiddle, he's running a dumpster fire administration that is caught in the middle of a changing foreign policy consensus. I don't know the accuracy of this report, but it doesn't strike me as impossible. Trump, like Biden, is not "calling the shots" in Israel so much as they have incredible amounts of leverage to influence Israeli actions. If the US President gives them an actual red line backed up with real threats (unlike the fake red lines that Biden gave them), they will most likely comply, which is probably what Trump did when they threatened to take the top off this conflict by assassinating the Ayatollah, throwing the global economy into chaos and hurting Trump's agenda. But Israel has shown unprecedented levels of insubordination to their American patron post-October 7th, so they're not waiting for explicit approval to take escalatory actions like the attacks in Tehran. International power politics are not so neatly delineated.