According to The Boston Globe, Trump doubled down on his intention to take control of Gaza, expel its inhabitants, and develop the Gaza Strip into a luxurious resort: The Riviera of the Middle East. He said that the Palestinians who live there would not have the right to return.
This statement is making Egypt and Jordan angry, because they have refused to accept the Palestinian Gazans for fear of Hamas terrorists on their soil. It also emboldens Netanyahu and his most extreme supporters, and it threatens to upend the ceasefire and hostage releases.
Where Trump goes, chaos goes with him.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Palestinians in Gaza would not have a right to return under his plan for U.S. “ownership” of the war-torn territory, contradicting other officials in his administration who have sought to argue Trump was only calling for the temporary relocation of its population.
Less than a week after he floated his plan for the U.S. to take control of Gaza and turn it in “the Riviera of the Middle East,” Trump, in an interview with FOX News’ Bret Baier that was set to air on Monday, said “No, they wouldn’t” when asked if Palestinians in Gaza would have a right to return to the territory. It comes as he has ramped up pressure on Arab states, especially U.S. allies Jordan and Egypt, to take in Palestinians from Gaza, who claim the territory as part of a future homeland.
“We’ll build safe communities, a little bit away from where they are, where all of this danger is,” Trump said. “In the meantime, I would own this. Think of it as a real estate development for the future. It would be a beautiful piece of land. No big money spent.”
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ALL: . . . just more poisonous breadcrumbs leading away from his central intent to takeover all right now.
It’s a repeat “cry wolf”–he must be running out of ideas–. CBK
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I disagree Jared talked about this plan at Harvard over a year ago and sources say Trump conferred with him about it shortly before making his own announcement. You can bet it’s being used as a great recruiting tool for terrorists.
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bethby30: Regardless, it’s still a distraction from what’s a real crisis in the present.
Wow–Trump really got one over on MAGA. CBK
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Trump’s whole job now is to distract us from whatever Musk is up to.
Or maybe the Lincoln Penny is just too “woke” for him.
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Maybe he wants to get rid of the Lincoln penny because he is envious of Lincoln.
He could order the Treasury to put his face on the dollar bill.
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Mad King Donald
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The Wall Street Hournal says Trump implies that Gaza is prime for redevelopment and he is thinking like it’s a Trump Org deal. At one point he says: “I would own it.”
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They’ve shifted all of the tension right now over to the shoulders of the courts and their judges.
It’s kind of funny in a way–so many are saying that we are risking a Constitutional Crisis. It’s like saying, we might have an earthquake, while it’s occurring. CBK
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Ethnic cleansing. Gentrification with a twist.
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Sorry…glitch in comments but dems have to do better. I got this email from justice democrats. Ill be calling dnc tomorrow
“news just broke that instead of focusing all of their time on defending the everyday people being robbed by the Trump-Musk administration, Democratic leadership took a break to meet with over 150 wealthy Silicon Valley donors last week:
Democrats are supposed to be fighting a Big Tech oligarchy and corporate coup while their leaders promise Silicon Valley CEOs they’re still friends. It’s total hypocrisy from Democratic leadership and exactly why voters are losing trust in this Party.
Democratic Party leaders have clearly learned absolutely nothing since November’s loss. Instead of fighting to improve the material conditions of working people across our country, their time is focused on appeasing Silicon Valley billionaires.”
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How many of our boys have to die so our demented leader can have a huge “beachfront property” to relabel with his name. Will we survive just the first two years of this madness. Will all those ex-students of ours who said, “I don’t need to learn history and government, I’ll never need it or use it.” still vote for him because he sounds like he might change their lives even though no-one can follow his speeches.
I’m praying every day that his attack on our nation will be held up in court until after his term ends, but with so many Trump/McConnell judges the odds are against it.
We need to create a class action lawsuit against Musk and DOGE for every citizen whose data [everybody] has been compromised by his and their illegal access to the Treasury Department Data Base. (He and it are not an official part of the government and don’t have sovereign immunity. He can be sued personally, and his wealth could be divided up between the American Citizens.)
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I read a news story today that Elon Musk told Rand Paul to audit the Department of the Treasury. What? Is Rand Paul joining DOGE? Is he an auditor?
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Imagine the humanitarian crisis!!!!
This is literally insane. It’s psychopathy.
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