Trump Posts Grotesque Video Imagining Glitzy ‘Trump Gaza’
Tens of thousands dead, even more injured, millions displaced, and countless others still unaccounted for. Gaza remains the site of widespread devastation as international negotiators attempt to extend a fragile ceasefire, but that isn’t stopping President Donald Trump from posting grotesque, greedy fantasies about turning the Palestinian region into one of his resorts.
Late Tuesday night, the president shared an AI-generated video on Truth Social imagining the war-torn region as a glitzy, gold-leaf-vomit homage to himself. “Gaza 2025: What’s Next?” The video asks, before launching into a montage of AI slop clips depicting bloody rubble transforming into a Dubai-esque riviera, highlighted by the “Trump Gaza” resort. Children frolick in the streets holding golden balloons in the shape of Trump’s head, and amorphous humanoids purchase golden figurines of the American president and stroll around a plaza dominated by a giant — you guessed it — golden statue of Trump. Yachts, skyscrapers, belly-dancing women (with beards!), and luxury cars abound.
The video also depicts Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lounging shirtless, drinks in hand, at the “Trump Gaza” hotel pool. Elon Musk is also featured heavily, scarfing down food on a beach and dancing in a rain of money.
Throughout the video, a backing track proclaims: “Donald is coming to set you free/Bringing the light for all to see/No more tunnels, no more fear/Trump Gaza is finally here.”
“Trump Gaza shining bright/Golden future, a brand new light/Feast and dance the deed is done/Trump Gaza No. 1,” the song continues.
It’s a twisted paradise for the rich and the well-connected, an imagined — monstrous — monument to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land. It’s also the most explicit depiction of Trump’s recent statements alluding to a desire to take ownership of the region and turn it into a real estate development.
Last month, the president floated forcibly relocating Palestinians to “clean out” the region. “You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing. I don’t know. Something has to happen, but it’s literally a demolition site right now,” Trump told reporters. “So, I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations, and build housing in a different location, where they can maybe live in peace for a change.”
A week before, Trump mused about Gaza’s “phenomenal location” and how “beautiful things could be done with it.”
Earlier this month, during a joint press conference with Netanyahu, Trump outright said that the “U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip.”
“We’ll do a job with it, too. We’ll own it,” he added, promising to “level the site” and “get rid of all the destroyed buildings.”
“We have an opportunity to do something that could be phenomenal,” Trump said. “I don’t want to be cute, I don’t want to be a wise guy, but the Riviera of the Middle East. This could be something that could be so magnificent.”
By the “Riviera of the Middle East,” Trump apparently means his own little fiefdom, chock full of monuments to his own ego, built over the bones of the thousands of dead.
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