GAZA STRIP TEASE: President Trump DOUBLES DOWN, “Committed To Buying And Owning!”

Everyone thinks President Trump is kidding.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about the man, it’s this — he doesn’t bluff.

He’s not joking about his plans for Gaza.  He might be positioning in terms of deal making and negotiating with big players in the region…

But he’s not bluffing.

He is prepared to oversee the clean-up, rebuild, and ownership of the Gaza strip.

It reminds me of when Jesus continually told the disciples straight out what was about to happen, and in their minds the plain language he was using didn’t fit well with their private expectations built on years of dealing with people COMPLETELY DIFFERENT than the man telling them plainly what he was about to do.

No… I’m not likening President Trump to Jesus in some weird new age sort of blasphemous MAGA-MESSIAH rant.

But he does often say things without the deceptive layers that most people use in their verbal communications.

And it throws people off… just like Jesus threw the disciples for a loop because they couldn’t figure out the “angle”.

Well, I’m telling you right now, President Trump’s “angle” on Gaza and the Middle East isn’t a secret.

He has said it plainly; it’s just… even those of us who support the man are SO USE TO EXPECTING A HIDDEN AGENDA — it feels weird to take someone at face value.

But he has said what his “angle” is — to stop the killing, and create stability that extends to peaceful conditions across the region.

And I think, if we’ll force ourselves to look at what he’s saying through that simple lens, recognizing those objectives as his PRIORITY above all else — his language doesn’t seem quite so cryptic anymore.

It seems… simple, bold, and just crazy enough to work.  Maybe.

Today, on the way to attend the Super Bowl, flying high over the Gulf of America (for the first time in history, according to his pilot), President Trump doubled down on his intentions for Gaza.

Watch:

HOLY SHIT!

"I’m committed to buying & owning Gaza." – Pres. Trump pic.twitter.com/jAkElaa7sz

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) February 9, 2025

Here’s another version for backup with clearer audio:

I understand that in conventional thinking, what he’s suggesting is completely different.

It is a radically different approach to an old problem.

It is nothing like what everyone else who has ever engaged in coming up with solutions for this problem has ever suggested.

It’s funny how the more times you repeat that in varied formats, the more you realize how much of a value-add that is to the plan right out of the gate!

As President Trump said the other day when first outlining his intentions, you can’t just keep doing the same old things — “You have to learn from history”, as reported by the Washington Post:

As he outlined his jaw-dropping plan for the United States to “own” Gaza, remove its Palestinian population and redevelop the enclave as a new Mediterranean Riviera, President Donald Trump said he had studied the issue “very closely over a lot of months … from every angle.”

Repeating “the same process that’s gone on forever and ever and over and over again … you end up in the same place” of death and destruction in Gaza, Trump said in his Tuesday news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“You just can’t keep doing — you have to learn from history,” he said.

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Trump’s idea of remaking Gaza in the image of a U.S. real estate development is not a complete outlier in the long, troubled history of U.S. intervention in the Middle East amid American dreams of transforming the region.

In policy terms, the Gaza plan upends decades of U.S. support for a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians, backed by most of the rest of the world and by past Republican and Democratic administrations.

The global response has been overwhelmingly negative, with only Israel voicing strong support. “It’s the first good idea I’ve heard. I think it’s a remarkable idea,” Netanyahu, speaking Wednesday on Fox, said of Trump’s Gaza plan. “It should be pursued and done.” On Thursday, Defense Minister Israel Katz tasked the Israeli military with developing a plan to facilitate what he said would be the voluntary departure of Gazans from their decimated territory to make room for reconstruction.

While I don’t mean to oversimplify a truly complicated situation — made more so by the nations of the world hinging many of their geopolitical alignments around this one issue — I do want to draw attention to the reporting that the Israeli’s seem to be in favor, while much of the rest of the world seems to be against this plan.

Again, without oversimplifying, one reason the Israeli leadership is so quickly onboard could be that they foresee this is a means of ridding themselves of the Palestinian problem once and for all.

In all honesty, if I’m in their shoes, that would be a strong selling point and hard to ignore.

Though… I’m not sure that’s exactly how this would play out.

And without oversimplifying the rest of the world at large having mostly negative vibes for President Trump’s idea, their fears of losing their precious Palestinian soapbox from which to excuse and motivate all manner of actions…

That may not completely play out as they foresee, either, if President Trump’s plan sprouts legs and gains traction.

However, the close in neighbors would likely have to swallow a decades old pill they’ve long fought by accepting their ‘beloved’ Palestinian brothers and sisters within the borders of their own nations.

That is something Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon in particular have long fought with the determination of a political activist who refuses to give up his victimhood in exchange for a true solution.

Not to mention, the will of the population from within the Gaza strip may not be quite as resistant to relocation — temporarily or permanently — as Hamas and their state benefactors (Iran, et al.) would have the world believe.

Check this out:

What if I told you Palestinians LIVING in GAZA SUPPORT TRUMP'S plan to relocate them?

Don't believe me? Listen to them for yourself. pic.twitter.com/Ffou4SZZyV

— Matt Tardio (@angertab) February 9, 2025

Just go back in time and listen to President Trump when he initially talked about the scenario he is envisioning at length, with all this in mind.

Is he crazy?

Or… is he so darned common-sense focused that the rest of us have a hard time realizing he’s the only one with a lick of clarity about the subject matter?

The problem may not be his plan; the problem could be that the majority simply can’t get over the novelty of the plan put forward.

Listen again with new ears… and see if you hear the same clarity that I am starting to pick out of his approach:

🚨TRUMP: "Jordan and Egypt can accept Palestinians from Gaza. Gaza is a demolition site right now. There's hardly a building standing and the one's that are are going to collapse. You can't live in Gaza right now. They need a new location. It's all death in Gaza.

If we can get… pic.twitter.com/ABboSGFVkI

— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) February 4, 2025

“Jordan and Egypt can accept Palestinians from Gaza. Gaza is a demolition site right now. There’s hardly a building standing and the one’s that are are going to collapse. You can’t live in Gaza right now. They need a new location. It’s all death in Gaza.

If we can get a beautiful area to resettle people permanently where they won’t be shot, killed, stabbed, and not have to worry about explosives or tunnels, it will be very nice. I believe we can do it in areas where the leaders are currently saying no.

I don’t think people should be going back to Gaza. It’s been unlucky for them. It’s like living in hell. The only reason they want to go back is because there’s no alternative, if they had an alternative they’d rather not go back to Gaza. They’d rather live in an alternative that’s safe.”

When he says that he pictures the people of Gaza resettled in areas where they can have a “beautiful life” without worrying about dying every day, I think he’s getting inside the head of the average person and realizing how much of a shift that would be.

And on that basis, he is reasonably concluding that most would never be willing to go back once they tasted such stability — even if Gaza is rebuilt and open to them.

The question becomes, then, can he get to a “Yes” from a handful of those near neighbors who have said for decades that they CARE SO DEEPLY about the Palestinian cause…

And call them on their statement, and have them take in the people of the Gaza strip?

He might just be reframing the narrative such that it isn’t as hard of an ask as it has always been.

He says he would like to see Jordan and Egypt take in Gazans, with Saudi Arabia fronting the cost of resettlement, and I think he might just pull that off, as the New York Post reported:

President Trump said Tuesday that “all” Gaza Strip residents should leave — and that he hopes “they wouldn’t want to go back” to the war-shattered territory.

Trump made the comment during an Oval Office meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who did not offer his own opinion on the plan.

“All of them — we’re talking about probably 1.7 million, maybe 1.8 million, but I think all of them,” Trump said.

“I think they’ll be resettled in areas where they can live a beautiful life and not be worried about dying every day.”

Earlier in the day, Trump said that Gazans would leave the Hamas-run enclave “if they had alternatives” — after aides predicted that the Palestinian territory will remain a wasteland for the next 10 to 15 years.

“They have no alternative right now. I mean, they’re there because they have no alternative. What do they have? It is a big pile of rubble,” Trump said at the White House shortly before welcoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“I would like to see Jordan, I’d like to see Egypt take some,” Trump said, floating the idea of Saudi Arabia putting up the funding for resettlement.

“Look, the Gaza thing has not worked. It’s never worked. And I feel very differently about Gaza than a lot of people. I think they should get a good, fresh, beautiful piece of land, and we get some people to put up the money to build it and make it nice and make it habitable and enjoyable.”

“I think they’d love to leave Gaza if they had an option,” the president added. “Right now they don’t have an option … The whole place is demolished. It’s unsafe, it’s unsanitary. It’s not a place where people want to live.”

The leaders of Jordan and Egypt have flatly rejected the idea when it has been floated by the White House in the past – citing concern about long-term demographic changes in the Holy Land, where Palestinians who leave Israel-governed areas historically have been unable to return to their homes.

(Emphasis Added.)

Did you see what he did just then?

Jordan and Egypt have ‘flatly rejected’ the idea — in the past.

And that’s another superpower President Trump possess in spades.

According to that same article, here was his response to that line of thinking:

“Well, they may have said that, but a lot of people said things to me. They said they wouldn’t take anybody back in Venezuela, and right now they’re flying them right back into Venezuela,” Trump retorted, referring to migrant criminals who illegally entered the US.

That’s a hard fact to argue against.

In fact, I don’t like the odds that you have to accept arguing against President Trump about his track record of getting things done — getting people on board with his plan — that no one else could ever get done, or get on board.

You know what I think?  I think President Trump doesn’t just have more clarity on this issue that almost anyone else engaging the topic.

But I think he might actually pull it off, just like he said.

Wouldn’t that be a shock?

Well, yes — but also… no; not at all.

The man gets things done.  That’s what he does.

That’s why he won the vote.

And that’s why I’m not doubting for one second that he may actually pull off implementing a solution to one of the most confounding geopolitical problems of modern times, while the entire world is shaking their heads that it can’t be done.

Knowing his track record… I, for one, am not enough of a gambler to bet against him.