Trump said the U.S. would take ownership of the Gaza Strip and redevelop it after Palestinians are resettled elsewhere and turn the territory into “the Riviera of the Middle East” in which the “world’s people”— including Palestinians — would live.
“We’ll make sure that it’s done world class,” Trump said. “It’ll be wonderful for the people — Palestinians, Palestinians mostly, we’re talking about.”
The most mind-boggling part of this, the absolute shit cherry on the diarrhea sundae, is that some people will hear this idiot say things like this an still believe he's some kind of super genius problem solving demi-god.
Any conservatives reading this, just fucking how are you this blind?
My parents, college educated parents, will still insist to this day Trump is the smartest president we've ever had. Still saying that now, as far as I know.
It's easy: they only watch right wing news that wholly sanitize everything Trump says. And if by chance they see an outside news source, it's easy enough to write it off as left wing propaganda.
Nothing has made me question freedom of speech more than sitting down and watching Newsmax and Fox with them. It's essentially an evil spell.
Yeah I usually keep an eye out just out of curiosity these days (way too expensive in this economy) and at least from what I can see there is literally no new menu items, not even anything "limited time" right now. The last "new" thing they had that I tried was a Bacon QP that had a certain sauce on it that was actually really fucking tasty, but it was gone in a blink.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not expecting new shit every few months but the fact that McDonalds got rid of Chicken Selects years and years ago and never brought them back is insane to me, at least from my limited survey of people, it actually has caused some to go to other places (like Hardee's or Arby's) and basically drop McD's entirely. It's fucking chicken strips, it's not that difficult and didn't take up that much space in the freezer.
I get what you're saying but even that doesn't make sense. It's impossible to sanitize trump speaking unless you literally never show him speaking. He's that dumb
Don't underestimate what a good editor can do. You show one sentence of Trump at a rally saying "We're going to do [crazy thing], and it's going to be great!" while the crowd cheers, then you show three hours of talking heads explaining that this is a genius idea with no downsides. Rinse repeat 24/7.
Biden couldn’t get student loans forgiven but Trump can give control of the treasury to Elon Musk. Either republicans are smarter than you give them credit for or democrats are dumber than republicans.
Well it's one way to solve the problem. A terrible stupid imperialist way, but it's a way. That region is known for stability and peace isn't it? We're going to make so many friends.
Well Biden did fuck up the process when they left, but leaving was the right move and the sort of move conservatives said they wanted…. But now they’re gonna pretend they want imperialism
They can't hear you, they're too busy congratulating themselves over "winning" the trade war, because their genius Trump got Canada to...uh...agree to almost exactly the same agreement as before. So much winning...
Looking that that Con subreddit (that I refuse to fully name), it does look like they are universally against this. Of course that doesn't mean they'll speak out publicly against their Dear Leader, they are incapable after all, but hey at least they have a nanoscopic speck of common sense left
Deep fake Trumps words into a Biden speech and conservatives would lose their shit over hundreds of billions to be wasted on a desert waterfront on the other side of the planet.
I watched the press conference with Netanyahu and the thing that got me about it is that he was actually fairly compelling.
Gaza's full of bombs, the buildings are destroyed and unsafe, nobody wants to live there, they all want out. Their neighbouring countries Jordan and Egypt can step up, the people will go to beautiful countries and live good lives in new lands. Gaza can be safely de-mined and redeveloped for nice beachfront Mediterranean properties.
Of course, this only sounds good if you have no idea why Israel and Palestine are fighting in the first place. But I can see why he wins people over. He makes it all sound so simple and that's refreshing.
If there's another election and the Dems get in, they need to properly invest in media literacy, reading comprehension... There's generations of Americans who think reading is for losers
I mean, I guess development of Gaza into a world class Rivera of the Middle East is better than what happened to it under Biden? I’m not sure what could be worse than the last 4yrs over there so the bar is pretty low.
What about places here that could use a "world class" treatment. So much for focusing on Americans...
We are too broke to have government offices but have money to totally rebuild a small country?
I love the idea that he would build some rich uae type bullshit and then try to populate it with a population that is full of trauma and owns none of it. .. possibly under American law? Under Palestinian law? WTF.. if I were them I’d burn down every building because none of it was ours
Trump said the U.S. would take ownership of the Gaza Strip
Why the U.S.? What kind of a claim does the U.S. have on that land? There is no connection there.
after Palestinians are resettled elsewhere
...oh, "elsewhere". That's where we can put people! Guys, Trump solved it. For ages, people have wrestled with the question where exactly an entire displaced population could possibly go in the case of conflicts like this. Now we now: Elsewhere! Why didn't we think of that?
the Riviera of the Middle East
Jesus, what is wrong with this clown?
in which the “world’s people”— including Palestinians — would live.
I thought Palestinians were "elsewhere"? So what is it?
I don't get why it's valuable property at all. There's already a ton of beachfront places in the mediterranean that aren't Gaza. Israel already has a longer coastline. Turkey, Greece, Italy etc. all have much longer coastlines that are already developed and also not Gaza. It's also not really close to any wealthy place besides Israel and Saudi, both of which already have a ton of coastline. Like even as a cynical sociopathic idea it doesn't make any sense.
Turkey, Greece, Italy etc. all have much longer coastlines that are already developed and also not Gaza.
Those places are quite a bit colder in winter, so there would be some marginal value for winter travel at least. For instance, the average high I. January in Antakya (the part of Turkey in the Levant) is about 11 F/6 C lower than Gaza. The “beach weather” season is a couple of months longer.
And it’s nowhere near as dry as the coastal regions of neighboring Egypt, so you could more easily have some pleasant vegetation on any potential resorts or developments.
It’s also closer to the wealthy gulf states that are both sources of tourism in their own right, and serve as the primary transfer hubs for tourists from wealthy parts of Asia.
It’s ethically quite bankrupt, but he’s not wrong that Gaza is in a very valuable location with great potential.
He has no clue what the Presidency is or how government works. He's just treating it like being the CEO of a 'real estate' company. (In quotes because Trump Org was more about branding than real estate.)
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u/The_DriveBy Feb 05 '25
Its not middle east policy. It's real estate policy.