To the man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And to the real estate developer in the White House, everything looks like a beachfront site for hotels and casinos.
It’s not just Gaza that receives such treatment. Last year, President Donald Trump told his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky that the coastal city of Odesa would be ideal for real estate development. In his first term, he thought he could end the decades-long stalemate between the US and North Korea by tempting Kim Jong-un to surrender his nuclear weapons in exchange for hotels and waterside developments.
Even better than real estate is Trump’s ability to spin a tall tale