‘I Won The Arab Population’: Trump Boasts Of His Relationship With Arab Americans After Pushing to Remove Palestinians From Gaza
President Donald Trump took questions from reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday while meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Trump was asked about his plan to remove the Palestinian population from Gaza in order to “clear” and “redevelop” the land.
“What if it does not bring peace to the Middle East. There are many Palestinians, even though you say that everything is going to be beautiful, everything’s going to be lovely, they’re not going to want to go back. There are going to be people who want to go back and feel like that is their right to do that. But you haven’t said will there be any type of repercussions or anything that happens?” asked an off-camera reporter.
“We don’t think that’s going to happen. We think it’s going to happen. We think people are going to be very happy, thrilled. A lot of those people that you’re talking about are going to end up maybe living there and maybe working there, but it’ll be in a different form,” Trump replied, adding:
We have had tremendous support for this project and we think the biggest asset of the project, it’s going to bring peace ultimately to the Middle East.
“Mr. President, one of your promises on the campaign trail was to bring peace to the Middle East. It was a promise to your voters, voters here, the Arab voters in the United States oppose this. What do you say to them?” asked another reporter.
“Well, you know, if you look at Michigan, where we have a large Arab population, as you know, I was just telling the king that we won. As you know, I won the Arab population,” Trump replied, adding:
And when I started off, I wasn’t leading. And when they finished a few months later, we started campaigning in Michigan. And when I finished, we won it by a tremendous amount, by 30 points. So and my relationship with the Arab population has been fantastic.
And my relationship with the Middle East is very good, very good with all the countries, just about all the countries, let’s see, I would say all the countries, and they all want to do something and they want to see peace in the Middle East. All the stories you hear about the Middle East not really wanting peace, that they want war, they want this, they want to go to a certain place.
Let me tell you, the stories are false. They want to have peace. I know more very well. They want to have peace. They want to have a good life like other people and we’ll bring– this will be a big factor in bringing peace to the Middle East. Thank you very much. All right, guys.
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