With Gaza rehab and other global policy ideas, Trump goes from America First to America Everywhere

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Source: Associated Press

With Gaza rehab and other global policy ideas, Trump goes from America First to America Everywhere

By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER
Updated 9:39 PM EST, February 5, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump promised voters an administration that wouldn’t waste precious American lives and taxpayer treasure on far-off wars and nation building.

But just weeks into his second go-around in the White House, the Republican leader laid out plans to use American might to “take over” and reconstruct Gaza, threatened to reclaim U.S. control of the Panama Canal and floated the idea that the U.S. could buy Greenland from Denmark, which has shown no interest in parting with the island.

The rhetorical shift from America First to America Everywhere is leaving even some of his allies slack-jawed — and wondering if he’s really serious.

“The pursuit for peace should be that of the Israelis and the Palestinians,” a flummoxed Sen. Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican and Trump ally, posted Wednesday on social media. “I thought we voted for America First. We have no business contemplating yet another occupation to doom our treasure and spill our soldiers’ blood.”

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/trump-gaza-mideast-foreign-policy-1b792bd4d12cb3895b5a26b98ad63f2b

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1. Hitler was Germany First too. Then they invaded Poland.....

Jared Kushner said he wanted Gaza for a resort months ago. Why is this a surprise?