‘We’re going to keep it’: Trump rants about building Gaza hotels as he meets Jordan’s king
President Donald Trump insisted that the United States would own the Gaza Strip without paying for it.
During a Tuesday Oval Office meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah, Trump was asked where he would find the money to buy Gaza after vowing the U.S. would own it.
“We’re not going to buy anything,” Trump replied. “We’re going to have it. We’re going to keep it, and we’re going to make sure that there’s going to be peace, and there’s not going to be any problem, and nobody’s going to question it.”
“And we’re going to run it very properly, and eventually, we’ll have economic development at a very large scale, maybe the largest scale on that site,” he continued. “And we’ll have lots of good things built there, including hotels and office buildings and housing and other things.”
“But it’s it’s going to be a wonderful thing. It’s going to be wonderful for the Middle East.”
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The president was also asked “under what authority” would the U.S. take ownership of the territory.
“America’s authority,” he said.
