From New York, this is Democracy Now.

Given what you've said about Gaza, to the U.S. send troops to help secure the security vacuum?

As far as Gaza is concerned, we'll do what is necessary. If it's necessary, we'll do that.

In a stunning announcement, President Trump has called for the United States to take over Gaza and displace the entire Palestinian population

in order to turn Gaza into the, quote, Riviera of the Middle East.

Trump's call for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza came while meeting with Israeli Prime Minister

Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House.

He was invited there despite an

arrest warrant for him issued by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes

against humanity. We'll get the latest. Then we look at the fight against Trump's

escalating attacks on the trans community. Since January 20th, it has been one attack after another from the Trump administration

on transgender people across all facets of life.

Yesterday, the ACLU and Lambda Legal took action filing a lawsuit challenging the president's

executive order seeking to ban health care nationwide for

trans people under 19. We are fighting back with everything we have. We'll speak to Chase Stranger

of the ACLU, which is suing the Trump administration. And we'll talk to a New York doctor

who says he's willing to go to jail to continue providing health care to

transgender youth. And we'll speak to the former top lawyer at the EEOC, the Equal Employment

Opportunity Commission. She was fired last week as part of Trump's purge of federal workers. All that

and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

President Trump is called for the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip's more than two million

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