Democrats were stunned and furious after President Donald Trump stated on Tuesday that the US would take over Gaza.
The 78-year-old president made the breathtaking explanation at a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House.
“The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will also do a work 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.”
Democrats went to social media and appeared on television to respond to his comments in real time.
“He just said it will be the American policy to violently move two million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. That is ethnic cleansing with a different name, “said Maryland Senator Chris van Hollen on Tuesday evening in an interview on MSNBC.
“He is completely lost. An American invasion of Gaza would lead to the slaughter of thousands of American troops and decades of war in the middle. It's like a bad, sick joke, “wrote Democratic Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut.
Murphy also argued in another message about X that the intention of Trump was to distract from the real story – the billionaires who grab the government to steal from ordinary people. '
He was not the only one who said it was a distraction. Senator Tina Smith van Minnesota had a similar assessment.
“It seems completely possible that he is also trying to distract us from the looting of the federal payment system of the Treasury Department that is now the hand under the thumb of Elon Musk,” Smith said on CNN.
President Donald Trump speaks on Tuesday evening during a press conference in the White House, where he said that the US will take over the Gaza Strip '
But whether it is a distraction or not from the chaos brewing in Washington, his comments behind the presidential seal ignored the internet.
'Wait what? Are the US going to occupy Gaza? We were no longer promised endless wars, “wrote congrsleman Eric Swalwell on X.
“According to my count we occupy Greenland, Canada, Panama Canal and now … Gaza?” Swalwell wrote.
The Californian legislator had re -placed a clip from Trump who responded to a question from a reporter at the press conference where he insisted that he saw and claimed a 'long -term ownership position' that it would bring great stability to that part of the Midden -Oosten . '
In his comments, Trump suggested that it would be a 'Riviera of the Middle East. '
Some former Biden Administration officials also weighed online.
“To mention it obvious, the American occupation of Gaza would require the United States to commit wholesalers of ethnic cleansing and subject our troops to a non -reducing urban uprising,” wrote the former spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ned Price .
'Despite Trump's statement, there is no regional leader who would support this plan. Not one, “he said.
Anti-Trump Republicans also responded quickly to the president's comments.
'If the United States use troops to remove Muslims and Christians – such as my cousins - from Gaza, the US will not only be entangled in another reckless occupation, but it will also be guilty of the crime of ethnic Purification, “wrote former Republican Congressman and Trump critic Justin Amash.
“No American of good conscience should stand for this,” he added.
Palestinians walk on the rubble of destroyed houses in Gaza City on January 25 after the ceasefish -Fires between Israel and Hamas
Democrats also noted that the effort would never go into the congress.
'Every voice for the occupation of Gaza will fail in the Senate, “Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego posted. “This is a non -starter. What happened to the “anti -war” president? '
Gallego Trump struck in a separate post like a 'warbond'.
More than 40,000 people have been killed in Gaza Since Israel, strikes launched in the aftermath of the deadly Hamas Terror Attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
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