While President Donald Trump dropped his bombing that the United States should take the owner of Gaza, a hundred hands flew up in the eastern room of the White House.
The more than 100 journalists there to cover his press conference with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went into a frenzy.
It was chaos.
There were not enough seats for all reporters to cover the event, so dozens of journalists had crammed the islands and pushed against each other until they literally hit the wall of the eastern room.
And when Trump dropped his Bombshell news on Gaza, every reporter pushed forward in the room, in the aisle in the aisle to take with journalists who got seats and created a human mass and all try to get the president's attention to Pull.
Hands waved, people shouted while Trump was about 100 feet distance and looking behind him from far above a stage, the Israeli and American flags.
“This is crazy,” said a reporter.
Reporters at the press conference of President Donald Trump try to attract his attention
Different reporters tried different ways to mark Trump, call his name and jump up and down.
And some journalists had their own agenda. The Afghan white house journalist Nazira Karimi, who had pushed his way to the front of the press package, asked for her home country.
But unfortunately she hit the president with her heavy accent.
'Do you have a plan to change Afghanistan's situation? Can you recognize Taliban? “She said.
'It is a beautiful voice and a beautiful accent. The only problem is that I can't understand a word that you say, “said Trump.
Another reporter tried to help. “She asks about the Taliban,” said the reporter.
The president picked it up. “I'll just say this. Success. Live in peace. '
Trump, had total control and called on reporters himself instead of following the tradition to have the foreign leader invoke a member or two of the press corps that traveled with him.
Trump took the lead when deciding on reporters and answering questions while Netanyahu postponed him.
While Trump defended his plan to have the US take over the destroyed Gaza Strip while moving the Palestinian population to neighboring countries, Netanyahu enjoyed the show.
The Israeli Prime Minister leaned against his stage, legs crossed in ankle, grinning as Trump easily threw more suggestions, including not excluding American troops to realize and scoop his vision, he could change Gaza in the middle of the middle east. “
Tuesday was the two -week characteristic of Trump's presidency and his first press conference with a foreign leader.
He has hit the ground since he was inaugurated on January 20 and has not shown any signs of inlet.
His administration has delivered Bombshell after bomb, from the closing of USAID to offering federal employees buyouts, to his vision of a Gaza rebuilt by America.
President Donald Trump's announcement on Gaza sent reporters in a frenzy
Reporters try Trump's attention, so he would call them in his press conference
Trump hinted to his plans during the day in the run -up to his announcement of BOM.
He called reporters in the Oval Office at the last minute at the beginning of Tuesday afternoon, prior to his meeting with Netanyahu, to see him signing executive orders and his minging about Gaza.
There he first suggested moving the Palestinian people.
“I think they should get a good, fresh, beautiful piece of land, and we get some people to set up the money to build it and make it fun and make it habitable and enjoyable,” he said.
'Say, if we can find the right piece of land, or countless pieces of land, and they can build some really nice places with a lot of money in the area, that is certainly. I think that would be a lot better than going back to Gaza, which only had decades of death for decades and decades. Well, they can be in Jordan and they can be in Egypt. '
He doubled that idea in his Oval Office meeting with Netanyahu.
'It would be my hope that we could do something very nice, very good, where they would not want to return. Why would they want to return? The place has been hell, “he told reporters.
“I hope we can do something that they would not want to go back, who would not want to go back, they have experienced nothing but death and destruction.”
President Donald J Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhu of Israel are holding a press conference in the eastern room of the White House
But he took it even further during his press conference when he said that the United States would take over the area.
“The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will also work well with it,” said Trump.
“We will possess it and be responsible for dismantling all dangerous non -depleted bombs and other weapons on the site,” he went on. “Level the site and remove the destroyed buildings.”
He did not exclude American troops and said he would do it 'if necessary'.
And when he was asked who would live there, he replied: 'I imagine that world people live there. The people of the world. '
He added that “I don't want to be cute, I don't want to be wiseguy” but said it could be the “Riviera of the Middle East”.
His announcement sent shock waves through the East Room and all over the world.
“I thought, on the way to this press conference, it would be difficult for President Trump to say something surprising about Gaza than he had said earlier today. I was wrong, “wrote Washington Post reporter Matt Viser on X.
