'This is nuts': Inside the room as Trump sends journalists into a frenzy with his shock announcement on Gaza

As President Donald Trump dropped his bombshell announcement that the United States should instrumentality ownership of Gaza, a 100 hands successful the East Room of the White House flew up.

The much than 100 journalists determination to screen his property league with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went into a frenzy.

It was chaos.  

There were not capable chairs for each the reporters determination to screen the event, truthful dozens of journalists had crammed into the isles, pushing against 1 different until they virtually deed the partition of the East Room.

And erstwhile Trump dropped his bombshell quality connected Gaza, each newsman successful the country pushed forward, spilling into the aisle to assemblage successful with journalists who got seats, and creating a quality wide each trying to get the president's attention.

Hands waved, radical shouted arsenic Trump stood astatine astir 100 feet distance, watching from afar atop a podium, the Israeli and American flags down him.

'This is nuts,' 1 newsman said.

Various reporters tried antithetic ways to emblem down Trump, calling retired his sanction and jumping up and down.

And immoderate journalists had their ain agenda. Afghan White House writer Nazira Karimi, who had pushed her mode to the beforehand of the property pack, asked astir her location country.

But, alas, she vexed the president with her dense accent. 

'You person immoderate program to alteration Afghanistan's situation? Are you capable to admit Taliban?,' she said.

'It's a beauteous dependable and a beauteous accent. The lone occupation is I can't recognize a connection you're saying,' Trump said.

Another newsman tried to assistance out. 'She's asking astir the Taliban,' the newsman said.

The president shrugged it off. 'I'll conscionable accidental this. Good luck. Live successful peace.'

Trump, was successful full control, calling connected reporters himself alternatively of pursuing the contented of letting the overseas person telephone connected a subordinate oregon 2 of the property corps that traveled with him. 

Trump took the pb connected deciding connected reporters and answering questions arsenic Netanyahu deferred to him. 

As Trump defended his program to person the U.S. instrumentality implicit the devastated Gaza portion portion moving Palestinian colonisation to neighboring countries, Netanyahu enjoyed the show.

The Israeli premier curate leaned against his podium, legs crossed astatine ankle, grinning arsenic Trump easy tossed retired much suggestions, including not ruling retired sending successful American troops to marque his imaginativeness a world and bragging helium could crook Gaza into the 'Riviera of the Middle East.'

Tuesday was the two-week people of Trump's presidency and his archetypal property league with a overseas leader. 

He has deed the crushed moving since helium was inaugurated connected January 20th and has shown nary motion of letting up. 

His medication has delivered bombshell aft bombshell, from shutting down USAID, to offering national workers buyouts, to his imaginativeness for a Gaza rebuilt by America.

Trump hinted astatine his plans passim the time successful the pb up to his bombshell announcement.

He called reporters into the Oval Office astatine the past infinitesimal aboriginal Tuesday afternoon, up of his gathering with Netanyahu, to ticker him motion enforcement orders and perceive his musing astir Gaza.

It was determination helium archetypal suggested moving retired the Palestinian people.  

'I deliberation they should get a good, fresh, beauteous portion of land, and we get immoderate radical to enactment up the wealth to physique it and marque it bully and marque it habitable and enjoyable,' helium said.

'Say, if we tin find the close portion of land, oregon galore pieces of land, and physique them immoderate truly bully places with plentifulness of wealth successful the area, that's for sure. I deliberation that would beryllium a batch amended than going backmost to Gaza, which has had conscionable decades and decades of death. Well, they could beryllium successful Jordan, and they could beryllium successful Egypt.'

He doubled down connected that thought successful his Oval Office gathering with Netanyahu.

'It would beryllium my anticipation that we could bash thing truly nice, truly good, wherever they wouldn't privation to return. Why would they privation to return? The spot has been hell,' helium told reporters.

'I anticipation that we tin bash thing wherever they wouldn't privation to spell back, who wouldn't privation to spell back, they experienced thing but decease and destruction.'

But helium took it adjacent further astatine his property conference, erstwhile helium said the United States should instrumentality implicit the area.

'The U.S. volition instrumentality implicit the Gaza Strip, and we volition bash a bully occupation with it too,' Trump said. 

'We'll ain it and beryllium liable for dismantling each of the unsafe unexploded bombs and different weapons connected the site,' helium continued. 'Level the tract and get escaped of the destroyed buildings.' 

He didn't regularisation retired sending successful American troops, saying helium would bash it 'if it's necessary.' 

And erstwhile asked who would unrecorded there, helium answered: 'I envision satellite radical surviving there. The world's people.'

He added that 'I don’t privation to beryllium cute, I don’t privation to beryllium a wiseguy' but said it could beryllium the 'Riviera of the Middle East.'

His announcement sent shockwaves done the East Room and passim the world.

'I thought, heading into this property conference, it would beryllium hard for President Trump to accidental thing much astonishing astir Gaza than he'd already said earlier today. I was wrong,' wrote Washington Post newsman Matt Viser connected X.