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Al Bawaba
08-04-2025
- Politics
- Al Bawaba
Trump to create a 'freedom zone' in Gaza
Published April 8th, 2025 - 05:57 GMT ALBAWABA - US President Donald Trump referred to the Gaza Strip as an "incredible piece of important real estate", BBC reported on Monday. He also stressed the idea of having a United States peace force "controlling and owning" the Gaza Strip calling it a "good thing". Donald Trump also suggested deporting the Palestinians and "moving them around to different countries". Trump says he wants to deploy a 'peace force' to control and take ownership of the Gaza Strip after expelling the plans to call Gaza the 'Freedom Zone.' Follow: @AFpost — AF Post (@AFpost) April 7, 2025 In their place, the US president also suggested forming "a freedom zone" in the strip. He said referring to the Gaza Strip: "a great location that nobody wants to live in". Earlier after he assumed office as president of the US, Trump repeatedly suggested moving 2.1 million Palestinians from Gaza to other Arab states; Egypt and Jordan, controversially proposing that the US should control Gaza and turn it into a Middle Eastern "Riviera". However, later on, he retracted his suggestion during a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin, when he responded to a reporter's question about his plan by saying: "Nobody's expelling any Palestinians." © 2000 - 2025 Al Bawaba (
Al Bawaba
07-04-2025
- Politics
- Al Bawaba
Video: Trump wants to send US citizens to El Salvador prison
Published April 7th, 2025 - 07:30 GMT ALBAWABA - In a new encounter with news outlet Fox News, US President Donald Trump expressed his interest in sending American criminals who might face time in federal prison to El Salvador's notorious jail, CECOT. The Fox News journalist informed Trump about the President of El Salvador's willingness to receive American citizens serving time in federal prison to minimize its population. The US President replied, "Well, I love that. If we could take some of our 20-time-wise guys that push people into subways and that hit people over the back of the head and that purposely run people over in cars." He added, "If he would take them, I would be honored to give them…If they can house these horrible criminals for a lot less money than it costs us. I'm all for it. I would only do according to the law." Trump says he would like to deport America's most violent criminals to El Salvador's prisons. 'If we can take some of our 20-time wise guys that push people into subways and that hit people over the back of the head and that purposely run people over... I'd be honored to give… — AF Post (@AFpost) April 7, 2025 Trump's words sparked widespread debate on social media, with several users commending the president, while others weren't so keen about sending US criminals to "El Salvador's concentration camp-like and torture prison" due to legal and political issues. A social media user on Musk's X (formerly known as Twitter) wrote, "Because Trump is a monster? I don't really have another explanation here. He is shipping large numbers of people accused of no crime other than an immigration-status violation to a Salvadorean torture prison. It's Hague-level sh*t." Another added, "HE WANTS TO SEND AMERICAN CITIZENS TO A FOREIGN GULAG." El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele expressed his interest in receiving violent US criminals and sending them to the country's CECOT prison for a fee during a meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in February 2025. During the discussion, Marco Rubio called the possible agreement an "unprecedented migratory agreement." © 2000 - 2025 Al Bawaba (
Yahoo
22-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Well, We Have Barron Trump's First College Scandal
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Barron Trump recently started his second semester at New York University, but if you're wondering how it's been going for him, too bad—we continue to know precious little about the college life of Trump's youngest, and tallest, kid. The strange thing is that despite the information vacuum with Barron, he still managed to cause a minor scandal with his campus's College Republicans group in recent days, a scandal that has then, even more mystifyingly, been widely covered in the media, earning articles in People, the New York Times, USA Today, and more. Though the competition for this week's stupidest news event will no doubt be fierce, I'd venture to say we've got a contender in this nonstory about Barron Trump leading to the forced resignation of the president of the NYU Republicans. This all started last week, when NYU senior Kaya Walker was quoted in a write-around Vanity Fair piece about Barron Trump, his life at NYU, and the fascination surrounding him, particularly among his fellow members of Generation Z. Walker, who was identified as the head of her school's chapter of the College Republicans, told the magazine, 'He's sort of like an oddity on campus. He goes to class, he goes home.' This seems anodyne enough, so much so that you might question whether it's a sentiment worth quoting at all—'sort of like an oddity'? Not exactly trenchant commentary! Honestly, I have more questions about Walker citing Lana Del Rey as the most exciting celebrity in right-wing culture in the same article. But apparently the 'oddity' quote was enough to get her in trouble with the College Republicans bigwigs, who pressured Walker to resign and said in a press release that her statement 'does not align with the values and principles upheld by our organization.' (In their statement condemning Walker's comments, the College Republicans of America also took it upon themselves to extend an official invitation to Barron Trump 'to join us in reshaping the Republican Party.' Good luck with that!) In her resignation letter, which the NYU College Republicans shared on X, Walker apologized but said that her comments were 'ridiculously misconstrued.' In a later interview with the New York Post, Walker elaborated, blaming the conservative X account AF Post, which shared the story, for taking her comments out of context. AF Post 'took it to say that I was saying that Barron was strange for being a commuter—which I thought was crazy because I'm a commuter,' Walker told the Post. The tweet was viewed millions of times and sparked many outraged-on-Barron's-behalf reactions. 'They [made it] look like I was calling the president's son weird, but I feel like anybody who can read would know that's not what I was doing,' she went on. I mean, since when is seeing a world-famous 6-foot-7 teenager flanked by Secret Service agents on a college campus not an oddity? Did they want her to lie and say that Barron doesn't stand out, that actually no one notices him? Trick question: What anyone who got remotely caught up in a tizzy about this on social media obviously wants is for Walker never to have spoken to the evil media at all, never mind that speaking to the media, though it's usually the campus paper and not Vanity Fair, is often part of the job description for these sorts of roles in college organizations. While it's hard to feel too bad that a college student has been forced to step down from an extracurricular activity—she'll be fine—it's pretty ridiculous that anyone is being punished for this. Just so we're clear, the conservative movement's stance is that if your wildly racist tweets surface, you deserve another chance to do important government work, but if you acknowledge the existence of Barron Trump on the record in your capacity as a leader of a relevant group at his college, that's out of line. Walker seemed very dedicated to the group, and the cause, and while this certainly seems like one of the milder examples of casualties of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party, it's an example nonetheless. Meanwhile, we're left still knowing nothing, maybe less than nothing, about Barron Trump, whose legend has only grown.
Al Bawaba
10-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Al Bawaba
Swastika t-shirt for $20: Kanye West's Yeezy store sparks outrage
Published February 10th, 2025 - 11:51 GMT ALBAWABA - American rapper Kanye West is once again the talk of social media after fans noticed that he removed everything from his Yeezy online store, leaving one item up for sale. Also Read Did Kanye West deactivate his X account amid Taylor Swift's post? The item in question is a white t-shirt with a Swastika printed on it, in reference to the barrage of pro-Nazi posts he made on Musk's X (formerly known as Twitter) in the last few days, before he deactivated his account a couple of hours ago. The t-shirt is currently exclusive only to Kanye's Yeezy store. A user on X wrote, "Ordered and I got everything else before it went down in case it doesn't go back up. LETS GOOOO" Another added, "I have 3 in the cart rn." — AF Post (@AFpost) February 10, 2025 Upon visiting the Yeezy website, users are met with the shirt labeled "HH-01" and can choose from sizes up to XXL. Social media users speculated that the code for the t-shirt stands for "Heil Hitler." According to the website, the t-shirt costs $20 excluding tax and shipping. The move naturally sparked outrage across several platforms as users criticized Kanye West for his anti-Semitic comments and pro-Nazi marketing move. The American rapper recently went on a long rant on X, swarming his account with vulgar language, anti-Semitic comments, and a series of adult videos, which had Friends star David Schwimmer asking Elon Musk to remove Kaney West from the platform, further calling him a "deranged bigot" for his comments about the Jews and praising Hitler. Kanye West also made comments about Taylor Swift before deactivating his X account, sparking further outrage across social media due to their past feud. Ye wrote on X, "YALL GONE, STOP TELLING ME TAYLOR SWITCH IS JEWISH." (Yeezy) © 2000 - 2025 Al Bawaba (
