Donald Trump's surprise announcement that he wants the U.S. to take possession of the Gaza Strip made former "Hardball" host Chris Matthews sputter in outrage and disgust on Wednesday morning.
Appearing on "Morning Joe" as a guest commentator, Matthews pointed to Trump's proposal to redevelop the home of over 2 million Palestinians as a resort was, in a word he repeated multiple time: "crazy."
Speaking with co-host Mika Brzezinski, Matthews made the case that the president seems to want to re-create, in the tinderbox Middle East, another Atlantic City where Trump previously owned a casino that failed.
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Getting right to the point, he began, "I think it's the craziest idea I have ever heard in my life. 2 million people living in Gaza, a problem that Israel has, and now we're going to have."
"We want to own Gaza, we want to take those 2 million people and somehow lure them to go to Jordan or to Egypt? Neither of those. countries want them," he exclaimed.
"The idea of bringing an Atlantic City to Gaza is crazy," he later added. " By the way, go to Atlantic City, go to Trump Tower, what's left of it down there. Go look at the gambling houses. Look what happened the last time Trump tried to start a Riviera, a new Riviera, a new Atlantic City. Take a look at the old Atlantic City and where that ended up –– it didn't work. It works in Vegas, it didn't work in Atlantic City and now he wants to create this mecca with Hamas becoming hospitality people as waiters and stuff like that and chambermaids. Are you crazy?"
"This is a crazy idea. I'm sorry to keep saying it, but it is the craziest thing he has ever said," he added.
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