Board of Peace Set to Hand Trump Sweeping Powers Over Gaza

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/world/middleeast/board-of-peace-trump-gaza.html

48 Comments

  1. Stunning-Edge-3007 on

    Board of peace isn’t real. He literally just made it up out of thin air. His make believe board is giving him make believe powers.

  2. So… Is Gaza going to be the new Billionaires club? Once they push out all the locals of course 

  3. Nothing says ‘Board of Peace’ like outsourcing peace to a guy who negotiates like it’s a real estate deal.

  4. ExternalScholar3472 on

    This is a misleading headline. This group is assembled by trump to hand out building contracts. With large backhanders for trump no doubt. It has no international powers whatsoever.

  5. Treesbentwithsnow on

    Just something else our tax dollars will be spent on-building a Trump Sea Side City in Gaza for his billionaire friends.

  6. Man if Donald can create this and hand himself power, I can claim any American land and call it a country

  7. Who from Gaza is on the board of peace. Or can I convene some friends to make me supreme ruler of Mars. That would be cool.

  8. So Trump creates a board of pariah countries and it gives him authority nobody will accept.

  9. Temu NATO

    Gosh – you really can tell this pathetic waste of skin didn’t have a single friend in his entire miserable life until he met Jeffery Epstein.

  10. Hey guys, who wants to join my Board of I’m Awesome and Everybody Sucks Except Me?

    See, I can make shit up too.

  11. He made up the board of peace, he’s appointed himself head chair of the board of peace, he charged people a billion each to be on his board of peace, now he’s granting himself sweeping powers over Gaza and he has the full might of our military to back him up if they try to stop him. WT actual F!

  12. American here: Wouldn’t it be great if we had 3 functioning branches of government. You know for checks and balances… stuff like that

  13. BlisslessTaskList on

    He’s gonna actually turn it into a shopping mall. I can hear George Carlin’s voice in my head.

  14. Correct-Shine-1692 on

    Exactly as everyone thought. This was just a move to distribute blame over gaza and nothing else. Trump is desperate to claim land and put his name on it. Seems like he’s landed on gaza as the easiest option.

  15. The Board of Peace building hotels on stolen, blood saturated land. Sounds like a dystopian novel.

  16. I, in turn, am going to hand myself sweeping powers over Earth. I will be equally as legitimate.

  17. pierrechaquejour on

    Atrocious headline. Media complicit in trying to give legitimacy to Trump’s latest emoluments clause violation.

  18. PrinceCastanzaCapone on

    You mean the completely fake thing that Trump made up, and cost $1 Billion payment directly to Trump to be on, is in favor of giving Trump power over Gaza? You don’t say….

  19. Next will give him powers over Venezuela and Greenland. Other members, like Russia, will get their own powers over other countries.

  20. I get that he was bewilderingly handed a 2nd term by the American people via an election but how can he legally be given power to make decisions in Gaza by a group of people that he invited to be on a “board” that each paid $1,000,000,000 to be on the “board”. This will be like “The Apprentice” but with Trump handing out tasks to the “board” members to go and compete against each other to make some bullshit governmental structure that will make Trump even richer. And once again, he told everyone what he was going to do and he just went ahead and did it with no pushback…..but this time he has literally taken over a foreign region for himself. Astonishing!

  21. SexPartyStewie on

    I just started the Board of Rulers with my two cats. They have voted me sweeping Powers over Earth.

  22. Since Trump has full power to make decisions inside his “Board of Peace”, by definition, this announcement is worthless.

  23. This is a clear message to Zelensky, this will happen to Ukraine if they continue to have Trump as their partner.

  24. On one hand he created the Department of War. On the other hand, the Board of peace lmao. What a cartoon world

  25. This is your ‚president‘ enriching himself while having the US military and economical power behind him, accompanied by his partner in crime Netanjahu.
    Nothing to see here.
    But on Hunter‘s laptop they found porn…