Morning Jolt: Trump Announces Big Plans for Mar-a-Gaza

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February 05 2025

Trump Announces Big Plans for Mar-a-Gaza

On the menu today: Just when you thought the U.S. government under President Trump was out of the foreign-aid business, he announces that the U.S. will "take over the Gaza Strip," and "take a long-term ownership position" as well as being "responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site," and if necessary, the U.S. will send military forces to secure the Gaza Strip.

Move Over, Greenland. Trump Sets Sights on Gaza

Hey, remember 24 hours ago, when I said we shouldn't throw out the baby with the bathwater regarding U.S. Agency for International Development? And remember how everyone and their brother called me "incredibly stupid" and an agent of the deep state, and how I was just too dim-witted to understand that the American government was getting out of the ...

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