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He is a real estate guy,
Jack O’Donnell, former president of the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, said in an interview Think of it from a real estate perspective,
he told reporters as he explained how North Korea could become a seaside paradise if only its dictatorial leader would open his isolated country to the West I didn’t expect [Kim] to take it, but we wanted to show him as clear as we could that there was an alternative,
John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser, said in an interview When you’re talking about a territory that’s just been subject to a pretty gruesome bombing campaign and has been for the last 17 years or so controlled by a religious mafia — Hamas — maybe talking about moving these people out and developing it into the Riviera is not the best look for the president of the United States."
You know, as a developer, [Gaza] could be the most beautiful place — the weather, the water, the whole thing, the climate,
The Gaza Strip would be turned over to the United States by Israel at the conclusion of fighting. The Palestinians ... would have already been resettled in far safer and more beautiful communities, with new and modern homes, in the region,
Trump said in a Truth Social post building on his controversial comments about Gaza's future this week Why on earth would we abandon decades of well-established humanitarian programs around the world, and now launch into one of the world’s greatest humanitarian challenges?”
It's been made very clear to the president that the United States needs to be involved in this rebuilding effort, to ensure stability in the region for all people,
Leavitt told reporters at the White House It was not meant as a hostile move,
Rubio said during his visit to Guatemala Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results,
In the interim, obviously people are going to have to live somewhere while you’re rebuilding it,
President Trump, You Can Remake the Middle East if You Dare.”
When Donald Trump reassumed the presidency of the United States of America in January, eternal New York Times foreign affairs columnist and Orientalist extraordinaire Thomas Friedman took to the pages of the US newspaper of record with some advice Love President Trump about 99% [of the time]
A user posted on X about Trump's plan, saying On the day that I will see American soldiers coming in great numbers to Gaza, I will then make up my mind how serious it is,
It is utterly unrealistic, and it reflects a total lack of understanding of the historical process of where these Palestinians come from, what is their collective identity,
former Israeli foreign minister Shlomo Ben-Ami told NPR At this point, we have about 440,000 in the Army. We're stretched from the Pacific into Europe. And now we're going to put we have a couple of thousand, maybe, in the Middle East? Now we're going to put what in Gaza to make sure this works — 20,000, 40,000? And then rotate them so you have to have three times the number that are deployed?”
Is it only in self defense, or if [a U.S. soldier] sees the guy about to shoot or identify as hostile, he takes action,
Clark told NewsNation’s CUOMO Does Hamas? Are they going to agree? What about the Palestinian Authority?”
You have to take what President Trump says seriously,
General Wesley Clark, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, told Bloomberg Television The Jordanians have said they don't want them. Egyptians said they don't want them,