Yesterday, US President Donald Trump woke up and decided to break the internet.
It wasn’t particularly difficult.
He posted a short AI video to Truth Social depicting ‘TRUMP GAZA’ replete with money raining down over a Gazan beach, children holding hands, super-yachts in the harbour, a towering golden statue of Trump in the town square, Trump-themed merchandise lining street stalls, bearded women dancing (oh yes), a Trump Gaza hotel lit up in neon, and a parting shot of swimwear-clad Trump and Bibi sipping drinks on the beach.
That orgy of propaganda ought to keep MSM busy for a while and emotionally traumatise whatever is left of the Hamas regime.
Trump is bullying the Middle East, which is necessary after America spent generations tip-toeing around terrorists, corrupt oil monarchies, and two-timing governments whose word was about as trustworthy as a pager in Lebanon.
Far too much time has been wasted proofing announcements to make sure they won’t hurt the feelings of a regime that spent foreign money teaching toddlers how to conduct executions.
When it comes to the peace deal with Palestine, Donald Trump has moved the negotiating goalposts so far on Hamas that they no longer know which sport to play.
And that is rather the point.
The Palestinian government has ceased to be the protagonist in this story. They have become the victims negotiating an exit strategy instead of making demands on those they tortured.
Geopolitics is all about what people want.
Hamas wants to establish a ‘River to the Sea’ genocidal single-state future and Rubble Utopia where they can fester a strong-hold of terror and kill every Jew within reach.
The United Nations wants to prolong the non-starter negotiation of a two-state solution so that the Palestinian cause can be politically weaponised against the West, inciting protests in the civilised world whenever necessary. Holding the world in a perpetual state of minor conflict gives their organisation purpose, power, and justifies its enormous wealth. World peace is not profitable. Remember that.
Israel would quite like to survive, preferably without murderers breaking through the border and committing crimes against humanity on a semi-regular basis.
Australia is desperate to be noticed on the world stage because we have a menagerie of insecure politicians running away from domestic problems.
And America? America is clearly tired of the whole thing and has decided that chasing Islamic terrorists across the desert only to be stopped at the doors of gold-plated palaces belonging to so-called ‘allies’ is a nonsense.
If Donald Trump had proposed a semi-reasonable Gaza approach like his predecessors, he would be stuck in the same expensive hole. His plot to take control of Gaza, move the Palestinians to nearby Arab nations, and develop the strip as a first world oasis has created a slew of problems for the bickering parties. Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon are being forced to explain why they won’t take Palestinian refugees unlike distant countries like Australia. The UN can’t work out how to run the ‘mass migration is a human right’ line while also declaring that the rescuing of Palestinians through mass migration is a war crime. And Hamas have heard nothing but crickets from their sponsors when it comes to the approaching Trump hotel chain invasion.
Egypt said, ‘The right for Palestinians to live on their own land is a principle … no, we’re not going to take pressure on this.’
Okay, so Europe can start repatriating the thousands of people waving Palestinian flags on their streets, right? These refugees obviously need to be reunited with their homeland.
It is very unlikely that we will be visiting a five-star Trump hotel in Gaza.
That vision was a hammer that shattered the protective ceiling over the region. Trump can now see exactly where all the pieces are on the board, who wants what, who has power, who has friends, and what can be done to end the conflict. He gave them an impossible problem to solve and waited to see what they would do. It is a tried and true negotiating technique, indeed, anyone who has bought a house would be familiar with the practice of outrageous price tags that are whittled down.
What is most interesting about the whole trolling exercise is watching seasoned political commentators, particularly in Australian conservative media, being entirely unable to see what’s going on.
Trump is engaging in a type of politics that sits outside their comfort zone. They never read about this process during their political studies and, having been sheltered from the business world, they can’t recognise the purpose of these seemingly outrageous stunts.
It doesn’t help that most commentators belong to a generation unfamiliar with online humour. Trump is a culture shock.
Hamas’ media office released a statement that sounds like they coughed up a Woke dictionary from one of Australia’s prestigious universities:
‘This video and its degrading content reflect the deeply rooted racist colonial mindset that seeks to distort reality and justify the occupation’s crimes.’
Meanwhile, the Palestine Liberation Organisation confirmed:
‘There will be no resorts of Middle East Riviera or anything else. What Trump wants to do should be done somewhere else, but not on the backs of the Palestinian people. This is the land of our ancestors and parents, and a lot of blood has been shed to defend it.’
Finally, it should be pointed out that Trump did not make the AI video. There have been many AI videos of Trump and Elon, especially in the lead-up to the election. My personal favourite featured the pair dancing to a Bee Gees song.
Trump Gaza video shared by President originated from pro-Israel accounts that have embraced AI, read today’s NBS News headline.
‘The earliest post found by NBS News of the AI-generated video online was posted on Feb 7 by pro-Israel X account Nazi Hunters.’
