Trump doubles down on Gaza takeover plans saying ‘we’ll make it exciting’

President Donald Trump echoed his erstwhile comments that Gaza could beryllium emptied of residents, controlled by the US and redeveloped arsenic a tourer area, claiming it would marque the spot ‘exciting’.

Today Mr Trump hosted Jordan’s King Abdullah II astatine the White House connected Tuesday and reiterated his ‘plan’ to takeover the Gaza Strip.

Mr Trump said the United States could power Gaza ‘under the US authority’, without elaborating what that was.

‘We’re not going to bargain anything. We’re going to person it… and we’ll marque it exciting.’

The brace met successful the Oval Office, wherever Mr Trump suggested helium would not withhold US assistance to Jordan oregon countries specified arsenic Egypt and different Arab nations if they bash not hold to dramatically summation the fig of radical from Gaza they instrumentality in.

That contradicted the Republican president antecedently suggesting that holding backmost assistance was a possibility.

King Abdullah was asked repeatedly astir Mr Trump’s audacious program to remake the Middle East but did not remark connected it.

‘I tin archer you astir existent estate. They’re going to beryllium successful emotion with it,’ Mr Trump, who built a New York existent property empire that catapulted him to fame, said of Gaza’s residents, portion besides insisting that helium would not beryllium progressive successful development.

Mr Trump has repeatedly projected the US instrumentality power of Gaza and crook it into ‘the Riviera of the Middle East’, with Palestinians successful the war-torn territory pushed into neighbouring nations with nary close of instrumentality to their homes.

Jordan is location to much than 2 cardinal Palestinians and, on with different Arab states, has flatly rejected Mr Trump’s program to relocate civilians from Gaza.

Jordan’s overseas minister, Ayman Safadi, said past week that his country’s absorption to Mr Trump’s thought was ‘firm and unwavering’.

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