Morning Jolt: How’s That Gaza Pier Coming, Mr. President?

WITH JIM GERAGHTY

April 24 2024

How's That Gaza Pier Coming, Mr. President?

On the menu today: Seven weeks after the president announced that the administration would build a pier on the Gaza coast to receive aid shipments,a Pentagon spokesman admits that "there has been no physical construction of the temporary pier or the causeway." Elsewhere, Taylor Swift tortures some poets, and Politico assures us that President Biden's team "just isn't stressing out about" antisemitic rallies on college campuses. Well, that's a relief.

Seven Weeks Later, 'No Physical Construction of the Temporary Pier or the Causeway'

Hey, remember in President Biden's State of the Union Address — delivered March 7 — when he pledged, "I'm directing the U.S. military to lead an emergency mission to establish a temporary pier in the Mediterranean on the Gaza coast that can receive large ships carrying food, water, medicine, and temporary shelters. No U.S. boots will be on the ground"?

Remember how a whole ...

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