President Donald Trump on Tuesday continued pressing his plan for the United States to take ownership of of the Gaza Strip and displace the 2.1 million Palestinians living there into neighboring countries as he met with the leader of one of America’s closest Middle East allies, King Abdullah II of Jordan.
As the two leaders met in the Oval Office, Trump told reporters that the U.S. would not endeavor to purchase Gaza despite statements made in the last few days in which he’d suggested that some sort of monetary transaction would allow for America to lay claim to the war-torn territory.
Jordan’s King Abdullah repeatedly demurred when asked to weigh in on Trump’s plan for the U.S. to ‘own’ the Gaza Strip.
We will have Gaza,” he said when asked about his prior statement about buying the long-occupied piece of land.
“We're going to have Gaza.
