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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  • gravitas_deficiencyEnglish
    96·
    13 hours ago

    So uh, this is literally what I have said would happen for like a year. Every single time someone tried to use the bLuE MAgA line on me since Oct 7 went down, I pointed out that Trump would do precisely this: just send more weapons (and maybe even direct air strikes from the USN and USAF), level it, and build Trump Tower Gaza on the “newly unoccupied” beachfront. Every fucking time I mentioned this, I got shouted down.

    • lost_faith@lemmy.ca
      72·
      11 hours ago

      Of course you did, you alarmist you! Somehow when the dots that make up a connect-the-dots image are so close together you don’t need to complete it, people get upset that you “spoiled” it