Magical Thinking

 JMM:

Trump plan to redevelop Gaza into a series of luxury resorts is slated to contain up to six “AI powered smart cities”, according to the “prospectus” reviewed by the Post. The plan assumes the “voluntary” departure of all now living in Gaza. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/31/trump-gaza-plan-riviera-relocation/

First we relocate the natives, then we build “Cities of Tomorrow.” Except not the kind like Celebration, Florida, or EPCOT, but more like a city full of Houses of Tomorrow, from the original Disneyland.

(I actually visited that, when I was 12 or 13. The Haunted Mansion was under construction then, and I was sorry I couldn’t see it.  Pretty sure the “House of Tomorrow” is long gone. And the Haunted Mansion has spawned a movie and a thousand Hallmark products. So it goes.)

I guess since Trump’s not likely to get that Peace Prize, he needs some compensation for his attention to foreign policy. Otherwise, he wouldn’t pay it any attention at all.