Just as nearly a million Palestinians began returning to their destroyed region in the northern Gaza Strip on January 27, US President Donald Trump began speaking of something else entirely: ethnically cleansing Palestinians outside of Gaza.
His statements, which he repeated on multiple occasions, were typical of Trump’s speeches: riddled with inaccuracies, confused, and largely detached from reality.
He claimed to have spoken with Jordanian King Abdullah II and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and that they had agreed to transfer the population of Gaza to their own countries—a demand that was forcefully rejected by both countries throughout the Israeli genocide in the Strip, which began on October 7, 2023.
“I said to him (King Abdullah II),” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, “I said to him that I’d love you to take on more (Palestinians), because I’m looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now, and it’s a mess. It’s a real mess.”….more
