Reacting Wednesday on NBC’s Today to President Trump’s bombshell proposition Tuesday that the United States should take over the Gaza Strip to make it the Riviera of the Middle East, chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel decried this as having elicited “shock and horror” from Middle East leaders and argued a Trump administration rebuilding the terrorist state “would be the — tantamount to ethnic cleansing in the region because many Palestinians don’t want to go.”
Engel told co-host Savannah Guthrie that he had “been speaking, Savannah, since this announcement came from President Trump with powerful leaders in the region, members of royal families and their — the universal reaction was shock and horror.”
“People don’t believe this is feasible. They’re not sure if Trump is serious, but they believe that this should not…
