President Trump called for the U.S. to "own” the Gaza Strip, “level the site” and develop it, explicitly calling for displacing Palestinians from their homeland as the region’s leaders struggle to maintain a fragile ceasefire.

First it was buy Greenland, then make Canada a state. Now Donald Trump wants to own the Gaza Strip.

The President proposed on Tuesday that the U.S. should “own” the Gaza Strip, “level the site” and develop it, explicitly calling for displacing 2 million Palestinians from their homeland as the region’s leaders struggle to maintain a fragile ceasefire.

During a wide-ranging press conference with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump laid out a sweeping plan for the U.S. to colonize Gaza and build resorts there. “I don’t want to be cute. I don’t want to be a wise guy, but—the Riviera of the Middle East. This could be so magnificent,” Trump said.

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  • chknbwl@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    It’s all a front to get you to stop focusing on the domestic, covert invasion of the US government.

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      It’s not a front. They don’t do smokescreens, they don’t do distractions, they don’t do sleight if hand. Every awful thing they do is because they want to do that awful thing. But what they have learned is that if you do enough awful things all at once, it makes it much more likely that you’ll get away with at least some of them.

    • booganiganie@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      I don’t get him. For the past 20 years of seeing him I just think/know that he’s a grifter. But friends of mine think he’s a genius. It’s like the gold dress blue dress thing.

  • Zier@fedia.io
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    3 days ago

    This dude is a cocaine/adderall junkie, why would anyone believe what he says?