After Donald Trump said on Tuesday night that the United States would be taking over Gaza — leveling it, clearing out its population, doing “a job” to rebuild it and supplying “unlimited numbers of jobs and housing” so “the world’s people” could live there — Secretary of State Marco Rubio argued Trump was just being generous.
“What President Trump announced yesterday is the offer, the willingness of the United States to become responsible for the reconstruction of that area,” Rubio, the nation’s top diplomat, said on Wednesday. “It’s an enormous undertaking.”
“It was not meant as a hostile move,” Rubio said at a press conference. “It was meant as a very generous move.”