Feeling newly strident and unchained in his ethnic-cleansing rhetoric, Donald Trump told reporters that Palestinian‘s land is a “mess” and should just “get cleaned out.” Washington Post‘s Annabelle Timsit and Gerry Shih reported that Trump already had “plans” in mind for refugees created by a mass-purge:
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday, Trump said he spoke with King Abdullah II of Jordan—whose country has historically taken in millions of Palestinian refugees—about the idea, which Abdullah and other Arab leaders have previously rejected. ‘I said to him, I’d love you to take on more, because I’m looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now, and it’s a mess,’ Trump said. ‘I’d like him to take people. I’d like Egypt to take people. You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing’
As with any of Trump’s grand ideas, he shared no actual policy proposals or methodology on how to “clear” Gaza of residents which, according to previous reports, his associates and family members want to turn into beachfront property.
AUTHOR FOOTNOTE
Throughout 2023-2024 (following Hamas’ October 7th attack on Israel) a Kremlin-fomented “Genocide Joe” disinformation campaign sprung up, pushed by any number of large social-media accounts. The loosely collected nonsense in this particular effort essentially claimed, falsely, that Biden was the “true threat” to Palestinians and needed to be “taught a lesson” about “playing nice” with Israel—while we, back then and in the moment, repeatedly noted Donald was the one who deserved such ire.
Although I don’t really post on Elmo‘s Xitter anymore, because it’s a Nazi cesspool, but I made an exception updated my thread with this recent news because (as I and others predicted) Donald’s operatives are foaming at the mouth to level Gaza.
President Kamala Harris would never have allowed, much less casually speculated about, clearing Gaza to suit whatever vacation-retreat goals her or donors/family had. Counterfactuals are hard for some, but in this case we named it in-the-moment and it’s all still true today.
SOURCES
- Washington Post
- The Guardian
- Will’s Thread on X (formerly Twitter)
- Stephen Bright on Xitter
