Trump says Hamas could have ‘very quick interval’ to disarm or ‘there will be hell to pay’
Trump says they talked about Hamas and disarmament.
Hamas “can be given a really quick interval to disarm”, he says, “and we’ll see how that works out.”
But when they don’t disarm – as they agreed to do, they agreed to it – then there’ll be hell to pay for them.
And we don’t need that. However they need to disarm inside a reasonably quick time period.
Key occasions
Donald Trump’s actions and incendiary remarks within the first yr of his second presidential time period have left many ladies, individuals of shade and their allies in a tailspin. My colleague Melissa Hellman has collated the racism and misogyny of the previous yr, within the president’s personal phrases.
Key takeaways from Trump-Netanyahu press convention
And that’s it, the press convention is over.
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Trump mentioned he needed to maneuver to the second part of the Gaza ceasefire plan “as shortly as we will, however there needs to be a disarmament” from Hamas. He mentioned Hamas could be given “a really quick time period” by which it should disarm or “there’ll be hell to pay for them”.
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Trump additionally claimed that if Hamas doesn’t disarm, there are different international locations that backed the ceasefire plan that had been keen to “go in and wipe them out”.
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Regardless of reports that senior officers in his administration are pissed off with Netanyahu stalling the peace course of by refusing to additional withdraw his forces from Gaza, Trump mentioned he was “not involved about something that Israel is doing”. “Israel has lived as much as the plan, 100%,” he mentioned.
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However, Trump mentioned, he and Netanyahu don’t absolutely agree on the problem of the occupied West Financial institution. “We don’t agree on the West Financial institution 100%, however we’ll come to a conclusion on the West Financial institution,” he mentioned, including he believes Netanyahu “will do the correct factor”.
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And on Iran, Trump responded to studies that Tehran is rebuilding its nuclear program, saying that they’re presumably utilizing new websites to take action. “If they’re, we’re going to don’t have any alternative however in a short time to eradicate that build-up,” he mentioned.
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Nevertheless, he additionally claimed that Iran desires to make a deal and urged them to take action, including later that he would assist the US participating in bilateral talks with Tehran.
Trump threatens to sue Jerome Powell for ‘gross incompetence’ over Federal Reserve renovations
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Requested in the course of the information convention about his seek for a brand new Federal Reserve chair, Donald Trump supplied no particulars about who he intends to appoint however launched an prolonged assault on the present chairman, Jerome Powell, by which the president repeated false claims about the price of a renovation of the central financial institution headquarters, and advised reporters that he would possibly file a lawsuit in opposition to Powell for “gross incompetence”.
Trump started his response by boasting about what he mentioned was the nice state of the US economic system, earlier than including that it was so, “even supposing we have now a idiot on the Federal Reserve.”
“I imply, Biden reappointed him. It’s too unhealthy. You’ll have thought he wouldn’t have finished that,” Trump mentioned, with none acknowledgment that he had first appointed Powell himself, in 2018.
“However he’s an absolute idiot,” the president continued, “who’s constructing a brand new Federal Reserve, or he’s doing a renovation of a constructing.”
Turning to the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump then repeated a false declare about the price of the renovation fo the central financial institution headquarters he has been making for months.
“Bibi, he’s as much as $4.1 billion to do a renovation of some small buildings,” Trump mentioned, wildly inflating the price of the renovation, which, as Powell identified to Trump on digital camera this summer time, is $2.5nb.
“It’s the very best value within the historical past of development,” Trump went on.
The president then instructed that the “magnificent, huge, stunning ballroom that the nation has needed, that the White Home has needed for 150 years”, which he’s constructing rather than the demolished East Wing of the White Home, will value “a tiny fraction of that quantity.”
On the ballroom, Trump mentioned, “we’re underneath price range and forward of schedule.”
He then instantly contradicted himself, by acknowledging that the most recent value estimate for the ballroom, $400 million, is double the $200 million he mentioned it might value a number of months earlier.
The elevated value, Trump mentioned, got here “after realizing that we’re gonna do the inauguration in that constructing,” which required “all bullet-proof glass” and a “drone-free roof, so drones gained’t contact it.”
Pushed to say extra about who he had in thoughts for the brand new Fed chair, Trump as a substitute instructed that he was contemplating a lawsuit in opposition to Powell, the person he put in as chair in 2018.
“Attractive monuments are constructed for a a lot smaller value” than the Federal Reserve renovation, Trump mentioned. “So we’re fascinated by bringing a gross incompetence, what’s referred to as a gross incompetence lawsuit, it’s gross incompetence, in opposition to Powell,” the president advised reporters.
Trump makes the extraordinary declare that there are international locations – aside from Israel – which might be keen to go in and “wipe out” Hamas if it doesn’t to disarm.
He didn’t title any of those international locations or give additional particulars.
Requested about Chinese language navy drills close to Taiwan, Trump says: “It doesn’t fear me.”
He provides that Chinese language president Xi Jinping hasn’t advised him something about it.
Requested if he would assist participating in bilateral discussions with Tehran, Trump says he would assist that.
Requested about Lebanon’s efforts to disarm Hezbollah and whether or not Israel ought to strike Hezbollah once more, Trump says:
Hezbollah’s been behaving badly so we’ll see what occurs.
Requested if he and Netanyahu have an understanding on Syria, Trump says: “We do have an understanding concerning Syria.”
Calling Syria’s president Ahmed al-Sharaa a “very robust man” that he respects, he provides:
I’m certain that him and Israel will get alongside. I’ll attempt to make it in order that they get alongside.
Trump says he’s “not involved” about Israel’s actions, on the subject of transferring to part two of the Gaza ceasefire plan.
I’m not involved about something that Israel is doing. I’m involved about what different individuals are doing or perhaps aren’t doing, however I’m not involved. They’ve lived as much as the plan. They’re robust.
Israel has lived as much as the plan, 100%.
Earlier we reported that senior officers within the Trump administration are reportedly pissed off with Netanyahu “undermin[ing] the delicate ceasefire and stall[ing] the peace course of”, as he’s refusing to additional withdraw Israeli troops from Gaza till Hamas disarms.
The second part of the deal consists of Israel’s additional withdrawal, Hamas’ disarmament, the start of reconstruction of Gaza and the institution of its interim postwar governing physique.
Trump says Iran could also be utilizing new websites to rebuild its nuclear program, including that US will ‘in a short time eradicate that build-up’
Trump says he hopes Iran isn’t attempting to construct up its missile programme once more, including:
If they’re, we’re going to don’t have any alternative however in a short time to eradicate that build-up.
I hope Iran shouldn’t be attempting to construct up, as I’ve been studying, that they’re build up weapons and different issues, and if they’re, they’re not utilizing the websites that we obliterated, however they’re utilizing presumably totally different websites.
Trump says he is aware of “what they’re doing” and “we will’t allow them to construct up once more”.
He provides that he doesn’t need to “waste numerous gas” that might be required to ship US bombers there for a second assault.
Trump says he and Netanyahu do not absolutely agree on West Financial institution
Requested about Israel’s actions in the occupied West Financial institution and whether or not settler violence is undermining the peace course of, Trump says he and Netanyahu “don’t agree on the West Financial institution 100%, however we’ll come to a conclusion on the West Financial institution”.
“He’ll do the correct factor,” he provides, gesturing in direction of Netanyahu.
Trump didn’t go into particulars throughout this press convention about what their disagreement is, however he did say again in September that he wouldn’t permit Israel to annex the West Financial institution.
Trump says Hamas could have ‘very quick interval’ to disarm or ‘there will be hell to pay’
Trump says they talked about Hamas and disarmament.
Hamas “can be given a really quick interval to disarm”, he says, “and we’ll see how that works out.”
But when they don’t disarm – as they agreed to do, they agreed to it – then there’ll be hell to pay for them.
And we don’t need that. However they need to disarm inside a reasonably quick time period.
