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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhen Trump offered to "give" the King of Jordan the West Bank
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-ignorance/"We decided to do this book after he left office because there was more to learn," Baker admitted. "One was the great anecdote where apparently Trump calls up [former Treasury Secretary] Steve Mnuchin at the Davos conference when he's meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan and put him on the phone, and said, 'Hey king, I've got a great deal for you, I'm going to give you the West Bank.' And anybody who understands Jordan where the Palestinian population is sort of a restive force in politics there and understands that was not anything King Abdullah wanted."
For those who haven't forgotten their history, Israel conquered the West Bank in the 6 day war in 1967. And Trump somehow thought he could solve things by just giving the West Bank back to Jordan 50 years later.
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When Trump offered to "give" the King of Jordan the West Bank (Original Post)
yellowcanine
Sep 2022
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Agree except that Israel should get Mar-a-Lago so Trump has some personal skin in the game.
yellowcanine
Sep 2022
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spanone
(135,859 posts)1. The least informed 'president' ever...
and the most dangerous.
underpants
(182,868 posts)2. It would've been like a 4 team deal in the NBA
Jordan gets the West Bank. Denmark gets Puerto Rico. US gets Greenland. Israel gets conditional draft picks.
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)3. Agree except that Israel should get Mar-a-Lago so Trump has some personal skin in the game.
Botany
(70,565 posts)4. This has to be from the Onion. Fucking clueless idiot.
"When Trump offered to "give" the King of Jordan the West Bank."