Trump Proposes U.S. Take Over Gaza, Level It and Build Resorts [Video]

First it was buy Greenland, then make Canada a state. Now Donald Trump wants to own the Gaza Strip.

The President proposed on Tuesday that the U.S. should “own” the Gaza Strip, “level the site” and develop it, explicitly calling for displacing 2 million Palestinians from their homeland as the region’s leaders struggle to maintain a fragile ceasefire.

During a wide-ranging press conference with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump laid out a sweeping plan for the U.S. to colonize Gaza and build resorts there. “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 so magnificent,” Trump said.

The idea would upend a centuries-old conflict over ownership of the land along the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea by permanently relocating the Palestinian people. Netanyahu didn’t dismiss the concept. “I think it’s worth paying attention to. We are …