President Trump has shared a strange video generated by artificial intelligence that showed what the president’s vision for turning the Palestinian territory into the “Riviera of the Middle East” might look like, drawing backlash on social media.
The video showed a gold statue of Trump, what appeared to be Elon Musk dancing under falling money, and Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lounging on chairs near a pool, among other things.
In response to the video, Basem Naim, a senior Hamas official, told Newsweek that Trump was “once again proposing ideas that do not take into account the cultures and interests of the people.”
“The people of Gaza are looking forward to the day when they see Gaza rebuilt, economically revived and building a better future for its children, but this cannot succeed inside the big prison,” he added. “We are not struggling to improve prison conditions, but to get rid of the prison and the jailer.”
Trump shared the video after his repeated calls for the US to “take over” Gaza, a plan that would require an ethnic cleansing campaign since he has said the Palestinians must leave and wouldn’t have a right to return.
Trump’s idea has been strongly rejected by the Palestinians in Gaza and the regional Arab states. Egypt and other Arab countries have been developing a plan to rebuild Gaza that would allow its residents to stay.
Trump has signaled he’s ready to back Israel if it restarts its genocidal war on Gaza amid the incredibly fragile ceasefire and hostage deal. The Israeli siege and bombing campaign on Gaza since October 2023 has killed nearly 62,000 Palestinians, a number that doesn’t include indirect deaths caused by the destruction of Gaza’s infrastructure.
