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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

Trump: ‘The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip’

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

President Donald Trump suggested that the U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip during a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, something Trump has never said before. Joy Reid and her panel discuss on The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0

There are days and nights in this business when you have to leave open the possibility that you can still be surprised.

0:09.0

I might even say stunned. I think this is one of those days. Donald Trump making news in the biggest possible way.

0:16.5

I'm going to read you the quotes that I think are stunning to just about everyone who heard them today

0:22.5

after a day of calling for the people of Gaza, who he numbered at 1.8 million to be relocated

0:29.6

out of the Gaza Strip. Today, Donald Trump said the following about the Palestinian people.

0:34.7

They could instead occupy all of a beautiful area with homes and safety, and they can live

0:38.8

out their lives in peace and harmony.

0:41.2

Instead of having to go back and do it again, the U.S., the U.S. will take over the Gaza

0:45.8

strip and we will do it and we will do a job with it too.

0:50.3

We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous, unexploded bombs and

0:56.0

other weapons on the site level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings.

1:02.3

When he was pressed on whether or not he would be willing to use the military to accomplish

1:07.7

the U.S. takeover of the Gaza Strip, He doubled down on that, said we will do what's necessary.

1:14.5

We'll do what's necessary.

1:15.4

If it's necessary, we'll do that.

1:16.5

We're going to take over the peace and we're going to develop it.

1:20.3

He referred to the Gaza Strip as the Riviera of the Middle East.

1:25.0

He said that world people, world people will live in Gaza, including

1:30.4

Palestinians and anyone else, I suppose, that wants to live in this new real estate development

1:35.0

he proposed today. This was stunning. And this came in a press conference with Prime Minister

1:42.3

Benjamin Netanyahu, his first trip to the United States

1:46.8

since he was labeled a war criminal by the International Criminal Court with arrest warrants

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