Press TV- The election of incoming US President Donald Trump was a �coup d�etat� by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and criminal Zionist groups in the US, an American scholar says.

�Trump is a creature of the most extremist elements in Zionist organized crime," said Kevin Barrett, an author and political commentator in Madison, Wisconsin.

Trump has been a "front man for organized crime" his entire career; �that�s all he is ever done in his life,� Barrett told Press TV on Sunday.

�We just saw a hostile takeover of the United States; the election of Donald Trump was coup d��tat by Netanyahu who now owns the United States,� he added.

Trump�s Zionist handlers designed misleading rhetoric for him in order to give false hope to American voters and help him get elected, Barrett argued.

�Some of the things he said led people to have hope, that he might be a peace candidate, especially regarding Russia [but] this was all a ruse designed by his extremist Zionist handlers around Netanyahu to allow Zionists to take over the United States,� he noted.

Trump's advisers plan to invite Netanyahu to the president-elect�s inauguration or arrange a meeting between the two before he takes office later this month, the Associated Press reported on Saturday, citing a source close to his transition team.

The report�of an invitation comes amid renewed tensions�between the Obama administration and Israel over a UN vote condemning the Israeli settlement construction in the occupied Palestinian territories.

The UN Security Council voted 14-0 last week to pass Resolution 2334, which demanded an immediate end to Israel�s �illegal� settlement activities.

The White House decided to abstain - and not veto - the resolution, allowing it to be adopted. The move angered Netanyahu who accused President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry of being behind the �shameful� act.

In a speech on Thursday, Kerry defended the decision, saying Israel�s policies put the two-state solution �in serious jeopardy.�

Trump said on Saturday, "We have to protect Israel. Israel, to me, is very, very important. We have to protect Israel." Commenting on Kerry�s remarks, he said, �I disagree with what he has done with Israel.�

The president-elect has already vowed to change course after he takes office.