President Donald Trump touched down in the United States on Tuesday after a whirlwind trip to the Middle East, which he described as a “historic dawn of a new Middle East.”
The visit, centred on signing a peace deal to end the Gaza conflict between Israel and Hamas, was meant to be a diplomatic victory lap. Instead, it became a viral spectacle marked by a string of Trump’s trademark gaffes.
The trip saw Trump greeted with applause in the Israeli Knesset and praise in Egypt, where several Israeli hostages were released after two years in captivity. According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health (MoH), as cited by OCHA, at least 67,183 Palestinians have been killed and 169,841 injured in the conflict. Despite the catastrophic impact of the Gaza war, Trump received a heroic welcome as he repeatedly