Trump unveils his vision to rebuild Gaza into a seaside metropolis
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the News Hour. President Trump is back at the White House tonight. He returned to Washington |
| 0:05.5 | after wrapping a whirlwind trip to Davos for the World Economic Forum, where he seems to have |
| 0:11.1 | diffused a crisis he first created by insisting the U.S. acquired Greenland, a self-governing territory |
| 0:17.4 | of Denmark. Leaders across Europe roundly criticized and rejected a U.S. takeover. |
| 0:23.5 | Trump also presented his plan for what he calls the Board of Peace, which he would chair, |
| 0:28.5 | in order to establish and oversee the ceasefire and post-war plans for Gaza. |
| 0:33.1 | But already, the American president has expanded the proposed board's purview to conflicts around the world. |
| 0:40.3 | Please welcome the chairman of the Board of Peace, the President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump. |
| 0:48.3 | In Davos today, President Trump officially introducing what he calls the Board of Peace. |
| 0:55.0 | Together we are in a position to have an incredible chance. |
| 0:59.7 | I don't even call it a chance. |
| 1:00.9 | I think it's going to happen. |
| 1:02.6 | To end decades of suffering, stop generations of hatred and bloodshed and forge a beautiful, everlasting, and glorious peace. |
| 1:09.9 | So far, some 35 nations have signed on many attending today's ceremony, from Argentina |
| 1:15.6 | and Bulgaria to Qatar and Saudi Arabia to Turkey and Mongolia. |
| 1:20.9 | Some, including Canada, Germany and Israel, have joined but were absent today, and others, |
| 1:26.6 | like France and Britain, have rejected the invitation. |
| 1:30.0 | The rollout of the board, born of a peace plan for post-war Gaza, was accompanied by this. |
| 1:35.3 | Thank you, ladies and beautiful. |
| 1:38.3 | A pledge by the American president to rebuild Gaza into a sprawling seaside metropolis. See, I'm a real estate person at heart, and it's all about location. |
| 1:49.0 | And I said, look at this location on the sea. |
| 1:52.0 | Look at this beautiful piece of property, what it could be for so many people. |
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