Donald Trump shares ‘bizarre’ AI video of his vision for Gaza
Donald Trump has unveiled his computer-generated vision for war-torn Gaza and it showcases a beachside resort featuring golden statues of the US President.
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US President Donald Trump has shared an AI-generated video depicting his resort-like vision for the future of Gaza, including a gigantic golden statue of the president and former property developer, as well as him lounging poolside with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The 30-second clip, shared on Truth Social, begins by showing Gaza as devastated rubble before asking, “What next?” in red, white and blue text.
Scenes of destruction suddenly morph into a Dubai-type sunny beach resort destination with blue water, palm trees, and luxury boats set to dance music. Modern cars line a Miami-style street.
“Donald Trump will set you free, bringing the life for all to see, no more tunnels, no more fear, Trump Gaza is finally here!” are the lyrics.
The computer-generated clip also depicts Elon Musk eating bread dipped in hummus, throwing cash into the air, and bearded Hamas terrorists bizarrely dancing in bikinis on the sand.
The video also depicts a massive golden “Trump Gaza” building, as well as a larger-than-life golden statue of Trump, a souvenir store selling mini gold Trump statues, as well as the US president talking to a belly dancer in a nightclub.
The AI-produced song then boasts “a golden future, a brand new light” before the clip shows Mr Trump and Mr Netanyahu lounging shirtless poolside with cocktails in their hands and the words “Trump Gaza” behind them.
Since returning to office, Mr Trump has shared his controversial development plan for the Gaza Strip, which he says he hopes for the US to “take over” and develop into “the Riviera of the Middle East,” pushing out Gaza’s two million inhabitants into neighbouring nations.
Under the contentious plan, Palestinians would not be allowed to return to the Hamas-run enclave, Mr Trump previously said.
More than 15 months of war, triggered by Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, have left much of the Gaza Strip in ruins and most of its population displaced from their homes.
In Gaza, people who watched the video were in disbelief.
“This video of Trump is full of fallacies and shows a lack of cultural awareness … Gaza won’t become a tourist spot like Italy or Spain,” said Nasser Abu Hadaid, a 60-year-old resident of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.
UN estimates have put the cost of reconstruction at more than $53 billion. A fragile ceasefire, in effect since January 19, has allowed an increase in humanitarian aid into Gaza, though Hamas has accused Israel of blocking the entry of some essential supplies.
Meanwhile, tensions continue to boil between Israel and Hamas over the terror organisation’s hostage hand-offs.
A senior Hamas official told AFP that the Palestinian movement will not hold a public ceremony for the handover of the bodies of four Israeli hostages on Thursday.
“The handover will take place without public presence to prevent the occupation from finding any pretext for delay or obstruction,” the official said.
Mr Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff will return to the region this week to negotiate an extension on the first part of the ceasefire deal, which is set to end on Sunday.
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HAMAS OFFICIAL AIRS REGRETS OVER ATTACK
A senior Hamas official has made a stunning admission about his views on the October 7 massacre.
The head of the terror group’s foreign relations office, Mousa Abu Marzouk, told The New York Times he would not have supported the attack if, in hindsight, he knew the devastating toll it would have on Gaza.
“If it was expected that what happened would happen, there wouldn’t have been Oct 7,” Marzouk said.
The 74-year-old also suggested there may be a willingness to negotiate at least a partial disarmament of the group in Gaza – a departure from Hamas usual line.
WEST BANK BECOMING ‘BATTLEFIELD’; ISRAEL ‘ATTEMPTING TO ANNEX
The West Bank is facing an “alarming spillover” of the Gaza war, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said, with dozens killed since Israel expanded its operations there last month.
“The West Bank is becoming a battlefield,” Philippe Lazzarini warned on X, saying that “more than 50 people, including children, have been reported killed since the Israeli forces’ operation started”.
Palestinian militants said that an unusual deployment of Israeli tanks in the occupied West Bank, part of a major offensive that has displaced tens of thousands, may be a step toward annexation.
Israeli leaders have repeatedly pledged to annex at least parts of the West Bank, which has been occupied since 1967, but any such proposal has been met with strong opposition from Palestinians and much of the international community.
In a weeks-long military operation in the north of the territory, launched around the time a truce took hold in the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces looking for militants have cleared three refugee camps and deployed tanks in Jenin.
Militant group Islamic Jihad said that the mass evacuations and first deployment of Israeli tanks in the territory since the early 2000s “confirms the occupation’s plans to annex the West Bank by force”.
The group, which has fought alongside Hamas in Gaza and has a strong presence in the northern West Bank, denounced “a new act of aggression” which it said was “aimed at uprooting our people from their land”.
Throughout the Gaza war, violence in the West Bank – a separate Palestinian territory – has soared, as have calls to annex it, most notably by Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
Since the start of the war in October 2023, Israeli troops or settler attacks have killed at least 900 Palestinians, including many militants, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
Palestinian attacks and clashes during military raids have killed at least 32 Israelis over the same period, according to official figures.
UN chief Antonio Guterres on Monday rejected “calls for annexation” and said he was “gravely concerned by the rising violence in the occupied West Bank by Israeli settlers and other violations”.
Israel said its troops would remain for many months in the evacuated refugee camps in the northern West Bank – Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur Shams – aiming to “prevent the return of residents and the resurgence of terrorism”, according to Defence Minister Israel Katz.
He put the number of displaced Palestinians at 40,000, the same figure provided by the United Nations which said the offensive had so far killed at least 51 Palestinians including seven children, and three Israeli soldiers.
Islamic Jihad accused Israel of attempting to consolidate “military domination by creating settler corridors that reinforce the separation of West Bank cities and their camps”.
The West Bank, excluding Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, is home to around three million Palestinian as well as nearly half a million Israelis who live in settlements that are illegal under international law.
ISRAEL PREPARED TO ‘RESUME FIGHTING’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is prepared to resume fighting against Hamas after the Palestinian group accused it of endangering a five-week-old Gaza truce by halting the release of more than 600 prisoners.
Mr Netanyahu, speaking at a military ceremony a day after Israel stalled the release of the Palestinian prisoners in exchange for six hostages freed by Hamas from Gaza, vowed to achieve the war’s objectives in negotiations “or by other means”.
“We are prepared to resume intense fighting at any moment,” he said.
Since the ceasefire began on January 19, Gaza militants have released 25 living Israeli hostages in staged ceremonies, often flanked by masked gunmen and forced to speak.
After six hostages were freed on the weekend, Israel put off the planned release of more than 600 Palestinians, citing what Mr Netanyahu called “humiliating ceremonies” in Gaza.
With tensions again surging over the deal, Israel announced an expansion of military operations against militants in the occupied West Bank, a separate Palestinian territory where violence has soared throughout the Gaza war.
The International Committee of the Red Cross, which has facilitated the hostage-prisoner exchanges, has previously appealed to “all parties” for the swaps to be carried out in a “dignified and private” manner.
Senior Hamas official Bassem Naim said postponing the release exposes “the entire agreement to grave danger”.
He called on the truce mediators, “especially the Americans”, to pressure Israel “to implement the agreement as it is and immediately release our prisoners”.
Both sides have accused each other of violations during the ceasefire but it has so far held.
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