Trump on Gaza..."We'll own it"
Americast
BBC
4.2 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In an extraordinary press conference alongside Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump suggested the US could “own” the Gaza Strip and turn it into "the Riviera of the Middle East".
His comments have sparked condemnation from countries across the Middle East and the Palestinian Authority says its people will not be resettled.
The Americast team give their analysis and ask whether Trump’s words should be taken at face value.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, AmeriCasters. There are more of you now with us than ever before, and we'd like to try to keep it that way. |
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| 0:17.2 | It seems like every time we record an episode of AmeriCast, we're talking about how Donald Trump's just done something extraordinary or unprecedented. |
| 0:25.3 | And now he's just gone way beyond that. |
| 0:28.2 | And we're in jaw-dropping, head-spinning, audacious, brazen, wild territory, quite frankly, as he has described his plan for America to take over the Gaza |
| 0:40.8 | strip. The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too. We'll own it |
| 0:47.2 | and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons |
| 0:52.6 | on the site, level the site and get rid of |
| 0:56.0 | the destroyed buildings, level it out, create an economic development that will supply |
| 1:01.5 | unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area. |
| 1:07.5 | We'll play you some more of what Donald Trump had to say so that you can hear in his own words |
| 1:11.7 | exactly what his plan is. And of course, we'll obviously be unpacking and analyzing what all of |
| 1:16.6 | this means because those words from the White House are now reverberating right around the world. Welcome |
| 1:22.5 | to AmeriCast. AmericaiCast from BBC News. |
| 1:29.1 | God spared my life for a reason. |
| 1:32.5 | Only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars. |
| 1:36.8 | A star is born, Elon. |
| 1:38.7 | I'm not just MAGA. I'm dark Gothic MAGA. |
| 1:42.3 | This is what happens when the machine comes after you. |
| 1:45.6 | I'm terrified for this country and I'm so hurt that America let this happen. |
| 1:49.4 | I think that we just witnessed the greatest political comeback in the history in the BBC's Washington Bureau. |
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