PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: On the USA Owning the Gaza Strip and Golf

Anyone know anything about President James Polk?

In 1795 was born in a log cabin in Mecklenburg, North Carolina? Remember Mecklenburg? Badly damaged by Hurricane Helene last year.
Became a lawyer at the age of 23. Sure sounds like Abraham Lincoln.
Was an Andrew Jacksonian Democrat. The Whigs were the competing party.
Served seven terms in the U.S. House, two as Speaker, and also governor of Tennessee.

Was elected the 11th President of the U.S.
His presidency led to the most expansionist period in our history, linking the Atlantic to the Pacific.

It was not easy.
Was a workaholic and had no time for golf.
His main goal was to fulfill America's Manifest Destiny, which was to spread from sea to shining sea.
We had a war with Mexico.

Texas became the 28th State.
Instead of war with Great Britain, he used negotiations to annex a good part of the Oregon Territory.
Lowered tariffs and established the Federal Treasury.

During his only term, something he promised to do, the U.S. acquired more than a million square miles of western territory.
Returned to Tennessee in 1859, and died of cholera just 103 days after leaving office.

All that effort by Polk, and he only ranked #25 among U.S. presidents. In that survey, Donald Trump was #45 and worst of all the presidents of the USA. What will be his standing after his second term?

So what has all the above got to do with Donald Trump? Notice Trump's personal manifest destiny?

Before Donald Trump was working on his political comeback, he was the businessman and real estate developer behind "The Art of the Deal." Now armed with the powers of the presidency, Trump has his sights set on much bigger swaths of land than Manhattan skyscrapers or beachfront property in Florida. Instead, the president is looking to apply his business background to efforts to acquire Greenland, Canada, the Panama Canal — and even war-torn Gaza.

All these ownership proposals have been met with universal resistance and condemnation.
My attitude on the Gaza Strip is that nothing has worked in the past, so maybe a totally outrageous solution could well be the ultimate pathway. Maybe there is something here worthy of development.
While Trump's Gaza remark totally surprised everyone, even his staff, son in law Jared Kushner has been his unofficial "ambassador" to the Middle East from the first term, and this concept is Kushner's.

Trump, the golfer, has also been asked to broker the merger between the PGA Tour and the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia. The two sides have been struggling to bring peace to professional golf, and it looks like he could well succeed on this deal.

Trump, according to Jack Nicklaus, "loves the game of golf more than he loves money". According to Golf Digest, his handicap is as low as 2.8,^[1] a figure that sportswriter Rick Reilly dismisses at length in his book Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump.^[6] Trump began playing golf while attending Fordham University.^[2] In the introduction to his 2005 book The Best Golf Advice I Ever Received, Trump wrote, "for me and millions of people—men, women, young and old around the world—golf is more than a game. It is a passion".^[7]

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