GOP Questions Trump's Gaza Plan: 'I Thought We Voted For America First'
Source: HuffPost
President Donald Trump’s far-fetched proposal that the U.S. take ownership of the Gaza Strip and redevelop it into the “Riviera of the Middle East” befuddled some Republicans, who noted it would contradict what he campaigned on.
“The pursuit for peace should be that of the Israelis and the Palestinians,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) wrote in a post on Wednesday. “I thought we voted for America First. We have no business contemplating yet another occupation to doom our treasure and spill our soldiers blood.”
Paul had responded to a post from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who suggested he agreed with Trump. “Make Gaza Beautiful Again,” Rubio said.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a foreign policy hawk who rarely agrees with libertarian-leaning senators like Paul, also called the proposal “problematic.”
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-gaza_n_67a3766de4b073cc3ce8ea62?iwk=&utm_source=buzzfeed&utm_medium=iframely
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Progressive dog
(7,603 posts)questioned appointing confirming agency heads chosen to destroy the agencies. GOP talk is not just cheap, it is valueless.
OnlinePoker
(6,127 posts)How much is that going to cost?
Ponietz
(4,330 posts)
sheshe2
(97,629 posts)How much will Donnie pocket from the deal?
Diraven
(1,898 posts)Can't forget that part.
kerouac2
(1,495 posts)These people are ridiculous - and their long list of flaws are dangerous to us all.
Hey Lindsay and Rand, he's a friggin criminal con man narcissist psychopath and you are his accomplices.
Ray Bruns
(6,362 posts)Stupid fucker isn’t he?
Hekate
(100,133 posts)mobeau69
(12,374 posts)
Dan
(5,179 posts)They’re going to love meeting people of different cultures, races and religions. Maybe they can share some of their MAGA theories with their fellow soldiers who will have their back.
Plus, now we can look forward to the hatred felt toward Israel being directed toward U.S. soldiers and the U.S..
Hell of a deal Trump
livetohike
(24,283 posts)to build resorts with his name on it? Where are the Palestinians to go? 25th Amendment right now. He’s insane.
maxsolomon
(38,729 posts)So, they'll come here. Of course.
Baitball Blogger
(52,346 posts)None of this makes sense me.
Hekate
(100,133 posts)However — haven’t you noticed that he repeats whatever it was, with embellishments, later on. By the time he says it a third time, the wheels are in motion.
This is not the first time he’s indicated a desire to see Gaza “be beautiful” and “be developed” — but too bad so sad it is currently a pile of rubble and the people would be so much better off if they were all in Egypt or Saudi Arabia, which countries emphatically do not want them and never have.
Notice trump used the language of real estate developers who are looking to make a fortune for themselves. Take him seriously.
Oh, and did you hear trump say something how “boundaries need to be changed” while Netanyahu stood there with a small smile in his face like the cat that ate the canary. That’s a shout-out to trump’s Ambassador Mike Huckabee & the American Evangelicals, because they & preacher Huck are preacher praying for the Second Coming, and to that small faction of the Israeli population who are Ultra-Orthodox and praying for the First Coming. Neither Netanyahu nor trump are believers like that, but…
In any case, trump never jokes. He has no sense of humor.
bronxiteforever
(11,212 posts)We “could” take over Gaza. Like a used car salesman. This car “could” last another 10,000 miles.
You are absolutely right that he has zero sense of humor. His “jokes” are usually made in the mind of a bully. They are either meant to demean or steal.
It was just a joke.that orange peice of slug e excreta has done that before. Gawd dammit someone stop that freak. . Just can’t believe people voted that freak in as a leader..
Bayard
(29,693 posts)Like what has been done to Indigenous people for hundreds of years.
Makes me think this is what he and Netanyahu had planned all along.
yardwork
(69,364 posts)Ray Bruns
(6,362 posts)
Linda ladeewolf
(1,138 posts)They voted for Trump first. I’d bet he and Leon have plans to build one of those rich people type cities there like they have in the Middle East(I don’t remember which Arab state it’s in). To be peopled by the white billionaire class.
missingm
(89 posts)Idiots thought that Kamala and Biden weren't doing enough to protect Palestinians. They weren't, but by withholding their votes they literally voted for wiping the Palestinians off the map. Congrats useless idiots!
people
(844 posts)He or Jared commented in the past (can't remember which one) that beautiful resorts can be built in Gaza on the banks of the Mediterranean. If he has his way he will send the U.S. military there so he can build these luxury resorts.
FakeNoose
(41,634 posts)Chump will sit back and be a silent partner, while Jared and Ivanka do all the legwork. Real estate development is a young man's game, after all. Jared has to show what he's doing with the $2 billion from MBS.
sakabatou
(46,148 posts)
usaf-vet
(7,811 posts)..... will stop those who have succeeded in blowing up ANYTHING, and ANYONE in their way will stop BLOWING UP buildings and the people in them if it's a resort?
58,000 young Americans died trying to change Vietnam. Is that his plan? Send U.S. troops to guard his “Riviera of the Middle East”
If Baron Trump doesn't put on a military uniform, pick up a gun and stand a post in Gaza. Why should OUR sons and daughters?
Let's look at his cabinet members. One has nine kids, and only one should be exempt. The Speaker of the House... his kids should suit up and arm up and go as well. Let's go down the list: Health, AG, Military, etc. All of their sons and daughters.
There should be NO bone spurs exemptions for anyone who supports this crazy person in the White House and his band of sycophants.
Ray Bruns
(6,362 posts)Yep!
usaf-vet
(7,811 posts)
timms139
(543 posts)streak Republicans got us to where we are with a nut back in the whitehouse so let's see if they will wake up and help delete the problems he is and will cause for the country . Maybe they will realize this is our country together not just theirs or ours. Compromise is the key to success and unless we get back to that we are doomed .
mdbl
(8,650 posts)Shut up asshole.
JoseBalow
(9,489 posts)How stupid must you be to keep taking his trolling seriously? 
sarisataka
(22,695 posts)but let me hazard a guess, when he requests Congress fund his plans for Gaza you will vote for it Mr. Paul...
BlueKota
(5,346 posts)and the rest of the Grand Old Patsies are all Charlie Brown.
DJ Synikus Makisimus
(1,438 posts)25 miles of it. After all, what's more important - people or profit? I think the history of the USA answered that long ago.
tanyev
(49,295 posts)And Senators Paul and Graham know that, even if they’ll never admit it.
IronLionZion
(51,268 posts)Does anyone here seriously believe Trump wants Gaza? He's likely full of it.
LudwigPastorius
(14,725 posts)No, you voted for an insane traitor who borrowed the slogan of a1940s pro-Nazi group
Allie2111016
(7 posts)What is Trump's end game? WHY does he want Gaza? WHY does he want to end DEI? WHY does he want to eliminate the Department of Education?
NoMoreRepugs
(12,076 posts)WinstonSmith4740
(3,436 posts)But has Susan Collins furrowed her brow and expressed concern yet? Has she been convinced Trump has "learned his lesson"?
twodogsbarking
(18,785 posts)
Owens
(597 posts)So much for "America First"!
TomSlick
(13,013 posts)was that forceful depopulation of civilians from Gaza would violate international law.
truthisfreedom
(23,532 posts)Drumpf Tower and golf club.
NameAlreadyTaken
(2,301 posts)
BidenRocks
(3,266 posts)Sodom and Gomorrah.
Is this the best location to build Sin City?
rpannier
(24,924 posts)Last and Only
LetMyPeopleVote
(179,869 posts)After having learned nothing after his first failed term, the president still appears wholly incapable of avoiding shambolic chaos of his own making.
After having learned nothing after his first failed term, Trump still appears wholly incapable of avoiding shambolic chaos of his own making.
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-02-06T14:05:00.612Z
Take his Gaza "plan," for example. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Take his Gaza "plan," for example.
Link to tweet
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/new-details-make-trumps-radical-gaza-plan-look-worse-not-better-rcna190962
Nearly six years later, the assessment continues to ring true. Take the president’s plan — I’m using the word loosely — to acquire the Gaza Strip......
As for how, exactly, the president arrived at this idea, The New York Times reported that Trump “shocked even senior members of his own White House” on Tuesday afternoon:
[P]rivately, Mr. Trump had been talking about U.S. ownership of the enclave for weeks. And his thinking had accelerated, according to two administration officials, after his Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, returned from Gaza last week and described the horrific conditions there.
While his announcement looked formal and thought-out — he read the plan from a sheet of paper — his administration had not done even the most basic planning to examine the feasibility of the idea, according to four people with knowledge of the discussions, who were not authorized to speak publicly.
In a normal, functioning U.S. administration, such a monumental decision would go through months of intense scrutiny, led by experienced national security and diplomatic officials. There would be working groups. And negotiations. And detailed analyses on costs and consequences......
The day after the rollout of the plan, administration officials couldn’t answer the questions because there were no such answers. All they had were some poorly thought-out rhetoric that their boss blurted out, to the consternation of much of the planet.
After a day of confusion at the White House, Trump apparently thought he could help clear things up with a 107-word missive published to his social media platform. In it, the Republican said Gaza “would be turned over to the United States,” and Palestinians would be “resettled” in some other countries that he didn’t identify.
He went on to say that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who is Jewish, is a Palestinian — a label Trump has long used as a slur — before concluding that Trump doesn’t believe U.S. troops will be needed as part of this endeavor because ... well, he never actually got around to saying why not.
All of which is to say, Trump created an avoidable international incident on Tuesday, only to make matters worse soon after.
LetMyPeopleVote
(179,869 posts)“We’re going to take it, we’re going to hold it,” the president told reporters, in reference to Gaza, failing to explain how this is supposed to happen.
‘We’re going to take it’: Trump’s Gaza plan goes in an indefensible direction
— Turquoise Cat ðŸ’™ðŸ˜»âœŒï¸ (@turquoise-cat.bsky.social) 2025-02-12T18:51:50.710Z
“We’re going to take it, we’re going to hold it,†the president told reporters, in reference to Gaza, failing to explain how this is supposed to happen.
#FvckTrump
“We’re going to take it, we’re going to hold it,” the president told reporters, in reference to Gaza, failing to explain how this is supposed to happen.
Link to tweet
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/re-going-take-trumps-gaza-plan-goes-indefensible-direction-rcna191855
“We’re going to take it, we’re going to hold it,” the president told reporters, in reference to Gaza, failing to explain how, exactly, this is supposed to happen.
As for the cost, Trump apparently wasn’t concerned, declaring, “There’s nothing to buy.”
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iu4j537hox5huj4bwnwgub4z/post/3lhwbfzlbtb2j
Link to tweet
For good measure, the Republican added that “nobody is going to question” U.S. ownership of Gaza because ... well, he never quite got around to explaining why.
Just as importantly, as experts in international law continue to explain that his plan is illegal, Trump was asked how the United States could legally claim Palestinian territory as its own. The president cited “U.S. authority.”
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iu4j537hox5huj4bwnwgub4z/post/3lhwbhc534u27
Link to tweet
It’s a colonizing perspective rooted in the idea that if the United States wants foreign territory, it should take the foreign territory because the United States wants it.
To reiterate a point from last week, if you voted for Trump because you expected foreign policy restraint, I have some awful news for you.
LetMyPeopleVote
(179,869 posts)“We’re going to take it, we’re going to hold it,” the president told reporters, in reference to Gaza, failing to explain how this is supposed to happen.
‘We’re going to take it’: Trump’s Gaza plan goes in an indefensible direction
— Turquoise Cat ðŸ’™ðŸ˜»âœŒï¸ (@turquoise-cat.bsky.social) 2025-02-12T18:51:50.710Z
“We’re going to take it, we’re going to hold it,†the president told reporters, in reference to Gaza, failing to explain how this is supposed to happen.
#FvckTrump
“We’re going to take it, we’re going to hold it,” the president told reporters, in reference to Gaza, failing to explain how this is supposed to happen.
Link to tweet
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/re-going-take-trumps-gaza-plan-goes-indefensible-direction-rcna191855
“We’re going to take it, we’re going to hold it,” the president told reporters, in reference to Gaza, failing to explain how, exactly, this is supposed to happen.
As for the cost, Trump apparently wasn’t concerned, declaring, “There’s nothing to buy.”
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iu4j537hox5huj4bwnwgub4z/post/3lhwbfzlbtb2j
Link to tweet
For good measure, the Republican added that “nobody is going to question” U.S. ownership of Gaza because ... well, he never quite got around to explaining why.
Just as importantly, as experts in international law continue to explain that his plan is illegal, Trump was asked how the United States could legally claim Palestinian territory as its own. The president cited “U.S. authority.”
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iu4j537hox5huj4bwnwgub4z/post/3lhwbhc534u27
Link to tweet
It’s a colonizing perspective rooted in the idea that if the United States wants foreign territory, it should take the foreign territory because the United States wants it.
To reiterate a point from last week, if you voted for Trump because you expected foreign policy restraint, I have some awful news for you.