Donald Trump and his family have clearly had their eyes on the real estate development possibilities in the Gaza strip for quite some time. Last March, son-in-law Jared Kushner, the president's Middle East adviser (among a dozen different things) in his first term, told the Harvard School of Government that "Gaza’s waterfront property could be very valuable" and suggested that Israel should "move the people out and then clean it up." On Inauguration Day, Trump himself said, “It’s a phenomenal location. On the sea, the best weather, some beautiful things could be done with it. Some fantastic things could be done with Gaza." Add on a golf course and you've got Trump Gaza Golf Resort to go with the new Trump Tower in Jeddah Saudi Arabia and peace will be at hand in the Middle East at long last.
Fortunately for Trump, Israel has already done the demolition work for them so it's just that sticky matter of getting rid of the people who live there. Kushner alluded to it in his talk but it wasn't until after the campaign that Trump shared his thoughts on how to deal with that. On Jan. 21 on Air Force One, Trump told the assembled press corp that he's spoken with the King of Jordan and asked him to "take" at least some of the Palestinians who live in Gaza and then "we just clean out that whole thing." That language was just a tiny bit provocative seeing as ethnic cleansing is considered a crime against humanity.
