Trump’s expressed support for Hamas’s violent crackdown and reassertion of control in Gaza has devolved into the usual embarrassing incoherence. On Tuesday, Trump said “we gave [Hamas] approval” to execute rivals in the streets. Yesterday Trump flipped, saying that if Hamas doesn’t stop its killing spree, we will “go in and kill them”:
United States President Donald Trump has warned that he would endorse attacks on Hamas, effectively breaking the ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian group, if it continues to target gangs and alleged Israeli collaborators in Gaza.
“If Hamas continues to kill people in Gaza, which was not the Deal, we will have no choice but to go in and kill them,” Trump wrote in a social media post on Thursday [Ali Harb, “Trump Threatens to ‘Kill’ Hamas over Gaza Gang Clashes, Says It Must Disarm,” Aljazeera, 2025.10.16].
So the American President is vowing to send troops into Gaza to kill Islamic terrorists? Oh, no, wait, we doesn’t mean we:
In an interaction with reporters later, Trump qualified that threat to make clear that US forces would not be entering Gaza.
“It’s not going to be us,” Trump said. “We won’t have to.”
“There are people very close, very nearby that will go in and they’ll do the trick very easily, but under our auspices,” the US president said, in an apparent reference to Israel, without naming the country [Harb, 2025.10.16].
One of the job requirements for the Leader of the Free World is speaking carefully and clearly every time you go on the record. Among the many things the American President should not say are threats to wage war when you have no intention of engaging in direct military action.
I remember the good old days when President Ronald Reagan caught holy hell just for joking on a hot mic about launching a bombing attack on the Soviet Union. Now we can’t tell when the man occupying the White House is joking or serious or just rambling meaninglessly. This Presidential incoherence weakens America’s international standing and endangers American and global security.
After all that stupidity, he closes with “auspices”? Impressive Mr. President.
After all that stupidity, he closes with “auspices”? Impressive, Mr. President.
In addition to destroying small businesses with tariffs and bailing out US farmers’ competitor Argentina, the narcissistic dementia patient in the White House is doing show and tell to build an ugly monumental arch.
And SD representatives support this guy…
Jews fought alongside the Muslims against the Crusaders in Jerusalem in 1099 and Haifa in 1100 and the Ottoman Turks who conquered Palestine were Sunni Islam. The 1916 Sykes–Picot agreement allocated to the United Kingdom control of what is today southern Israel, Palestine, Jordan and southern Iraq plus the ports at Haifa and Acre. Five of my great-grandparents were Ashkenazi Jews but President Harry Truman failed the world community by recognizing the illegal seizure of Palestine so it’s no secret that this interested party would like to see Israel rolled back to 1917 borders and its settler inhabitants deported to Ukraine to defend their homelands.