Here's what happened during Trump's 3rd week in office

President Donald Trump welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benajamin Netanyahu to the White House Tuesday, marking the archetypal sojourn from a overseas person during Trump's 2nd term. 

During Netanyahu's visit, Trump besides unveiled monolithic plans suggesting that the U.S. would "take over" the Gaza Strip successful a "long-term ownership position" to present stableness to the region. 

"The U.S. volition instrumentality implicit the Gaza Strip, and we volition bash a occupation with it, too," Trump said Tuesday evening successful a associated property league with Netanyahu. "We'll ain it and beryllium liable for dismantling each of the dangerous, unexploded bombs and different weapons connected the site."

Even so, White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said the president wouldn’t perpetrate to placing U.S. troops connected the crushed successful Gaza arsenic portion of the rebuilding effort. 

"It's been made precise wide to the president that the United States needs to beryllium progressive successful this rebuilding effort, to guarantee stableness successful the portion for each people," Leavitt told reporters Wednesday astatine a White House property briefing. "But that does not mean boots connected the crushed successful Gaza. It does not mean American taxpayers volition beryllium backing this effort. It means Donald Trump, who is the champion dealmaker connected the planet, is going to onslaught a woody with our partners successful the region."

TRUMP NOT COMMITTING TO PUTTING TROOPS ON THE GROUND IN GAZA, WHITE HOUSE SAYS

White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said the president wouldn’t perpetrate to placing U.S. troops connected the crushed successful Gaza arsenic portion of the rebuilding effort.  (Evan Vucci/The Associated Press)

Leavitt said that Trump is an "outside-of-the-box thinker" who is "a visionary person who solves problems that galore others, particularly successful this city, assertion are unsolvable."

The announcement sparked backlash though from Democratic lawmakers, to leaders of Palestinian militant group, Hamas. 

"What President Trump stated astir his volition to displace the residents of the Gaza Strip extracurricular it and the United States' power implicit the Strip by unit is simply a transgression against humanity," a elder Hamas authoritative told Fox News connected Wednesday.

Here are immoderate different actions Trump took his 2nd week successful office: 

Maximum unit connected Iran 

Trump besides reinstated his "maximum pressure" run against Iran, instructing the Treasury Department to execute "maximum economical pressure" upon Iran done a bid of sanctions aimed astatine sinking Iran’s lipid exports. 

Trump said Tuesday that helium was "torn" astir signing the bid and admitted helium was "unhappy to bash it," noting that the enforcement bid was precise pugnacious connected Iran. 

"Hopefully, we're not going to person to usage it precise much," Trump told reporters Tuesday. 

Trump aboriginal told reporters successful a associated property league with Netanyahu that helium believes Iran is "close" to processing a atomic weapon, but that the U.S. would halt a "strong" Tehran from obtaining one.

TRUMP REINSTATES ‘MAXIMUM PRESSURE’ CAMPAIGN AGAINST IRAN 

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reply questions during a associated property league successful the East Room astatine the White House successful Washington, U.S., Feb. 4, 2025 (Leah Millis/Reuters)

"They're precise beardown close now, and we're not going to fto them get a atomic weapon," Trump said. 

His archetypal medication besides adopted a "maximum pressure" inaugural against Tehran, issuing greater sanctions and harsher enforcement for violations.

Strict sanctions were reimposed upon Iran aft Trump withdrew from the Iran deal, known arsenic the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, successful May 2018. The 2015 statement brokered nether the Obama medication had lifted sanctions connected Iran successful speech for limits connected Iran’s atomic program.

Sanctions against the International Criminal Court 

Trump besides signed an enforcement bid sanctioning the International Criminal Court (ICC) connected Thursday, successful effect to its May 2024 apprehension warrant for Netanyahu.

The bid — which was lauded by adjacent immoderate apical Democrats — unveils fiscal sanctions and visa restrictions against ICC officials and their household members who enactment ICC investigations against U.S. citizens and allies. 

The White House besides signed enforcement orders connected Thursday instructing the Justice Department to found a task unit dedicated to weeding retired "anti-Christian bias," and a reappraisal of each nongovernmental organizations that judge national funds.

The ICC is an independent, planetary enactment based successful The Hague and established nether the Rome Statute, an planetary pact that took effect successful 2002. The tribunal oversees planetary issues including genocide, crimes against humanity and warfare crimes. 

The Trump White House claims that the U.S. and Israel are not taxable to the jurisdiction of the ICC due to the fact that the tribunal poses threats to U.S. sovereignty and law protections. Additionally, the White House has accused the ICC of politicization and said it has targeted Israel without holding regimes similar Iran to the aforesaid standards. 

Sovereign Wealth Fund 

The U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments volition found a sovereign wealthiness money successful accordance with a caller enforcement bid Trump signed connected Monday. 

The sovereign wealthiness fund, a state-owned concern money with assorted fiscal assets similar stocks and bonds, could ft the measure for purchasing TikTok, according to Trump. 

"We're going to beryllium doing thing possibly with TikTok, and possibly not," Trump told reporters Monday. "If we marque the close deal, we'll bash it. Otherwise, we won't."

Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent said the sovereign wealthiness money would beryllium created wrong the adjacent 12 months. 

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S PLANS FOR A SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND 

Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent said the sovereign wealthiness money would beryllium created wrong the adjacent 12 months.  (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

"I deliberation it’s going to make worth and beryllium of large strategical importance," Bessent told reporters Monday. 

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Bessent and Commerce Secretary nominee Howard Lutnick are instructed to devise a program successful the adjacent 90 days for the instauration of the fund, according to the White House. The connection volition see recommendations connected backing mechanisms, concern strategies, money operation and a governance model. 

More details connected the sovereign wealthiness money were not instantly available, and it's unclear whether Congress volition motion disconnected connected it. 

Fox News’ Greg Norman contributed to this report.