Donald Trump formally established his latest project, the Gaza Board of Peace, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday.
It is not the first ambitious scheme that he has embarked on, and is unlikely to be his last.
Having now held the office of President for a combined five years and three days he has taken on everything from constructing a wall across the US-Mexico border to replacing the East Wing of the Whitehouse with a ballroom.
A ‘new Gaza’
During the signing event for Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace, his son-in-law Jared Kushner presented CGI-generated images of a “new Gaza”.
They included luxury apartments, data centres, coastal tourism and plans to build more than 100,00 housing units as well as 75 medical facilities.
Trump revealed these ambitious plans after inviting controversial figures such as Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the board.
A presentation showing an imagined new Gaza Strip after the war, presented to Davos yesterday (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Under Netanyahu, Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza destroyed around 84 per cent of the buildings, and claimed the lives of an estimated 72,000 Palestinians. Putin meanwhile, launched a full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine in 2022.
The Board of Peace is a Trump-led body that was originally designed to temporarily manage the territory’s administration and reconstruction, but now may expand its remit beyond Gaza.
Trump previously shared an AI-generated “Gaza Riviera” video featuring skyscrapers, golden Trump statues, the words “Trump Gaza” everywhere, and to top it all off, the President himself, topless and sipping cocktails beside a pool with Netanyahu.
The video prompted outrage at the time, after Trump said he wanted to relocate Gaza’s two million residents to neighbouring countries.
The redesign of the East Wing
In October, Trump decided that the White House did not have enough space for hosting guests, so knocked down the East Wing to make way for an enormous ballroom.
The project sparked fury, with heavy machinery seen demolishing the historic building, which had been standing since 1902. It followed Trump promising that the work would not damage the existing structure.
It only took around three days for the East Wing to be demolished (Photo: Heather Diehl/Getty Images) Concept art for Trump’s plans for the new White House ballroom (Photo: White House)The President estimated the cost to be around $300m (£225m), with the construction set to be finished before the end of his term.
Funds for the project are, according to Trump, being provided by himself and donors, including companies such as Google, Amazon and Meta, raising concerns from some legal experts that it could be a way for individuals to pay for access to the administration.
Build a wall!
Trump’s plans to construct a wall spanning the almost 2,000-mile-long southern border with Mexico have been largely forgotten in his second term.
When it comes to immigration, the focus has turned to the controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) raids and deportations.
But the wall project has not stopped. In his first term, Trump only managed to build around 453 of the promised 2,000 miles of border wall, with a resistant Congress and a flurry of lawsuits hampering progress.
A section of the border wall near Lochiel, Arizona (Photo: Rebecca Noble/Bloomberg/Getty Images)However, in July the project was reinvigorated, with Congress approving $46.5bn in funding for the border wall.
Then in September, ten construction contracts totalling $4.5bn were awarded for sections of the barrier.
Trump may still achieve his goal of a continuous wall across the southern border to halt illegal immigration, despite a sharp decrease in the number of crossings.
Trump’s golden dome
Trump has claimed that the US “needs” to own Greenland for its national security. One of his reasons is apparently his desire to use the territory to create a “Golden Dome” – similar to Israel’s Iron Dome but to defend against incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Greenland would be a key part of Trump’s “Golden Dome” defense system (Photo: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)The autonomous Danish territory is located on the flight paths that nuclear warheads from Russia and China would likely take if they were launched against the US.
Due to its geographic position, it is an ideal place to station “Golden Dome” interceptors which can destroy warheads before they reach their target.
However, it is still unclear why Trump was so adamant about owning the territory when the US had been operating at Pituffik, a US Space Force on the northwest coast of Greenland, for decades, and already had the right to increase its military assets there.
Furthermore, experts have raised concerns about its financial and strategic feasibility. It would take billions to fund, years to build, and could never protect the entire United States.
A new face for Mount Rushmore
Trump has previously floated the idea of joining Presidents Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington on the iconic memorial.
One of his supporters in Congress, Representative Anna Paulina Luna, even introduced a bill to add his face to the famous mountain in South Dakota.
Adding Trump’s face to the iconic monument would be almost impossible (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)However, he would likely face challenges from Congress and lawsuits from stakeholders if he went through with the idea.
Another obstacle is that there is simply not enough rock on Mount Rushmore to accommodate his face.
The Gulf of America/ Mexico
On his first day back in office, Trump signed an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America because the US “do most of the work there, and it’s ours”.
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives then voted to officially rename the Gulf for federal agencies in May.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum pushed back against the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico (Photo: Alfredo Estrella/AFP/Getty Images)The move sparked pushback from Mexico in the form of suing Google after the company ignored their repeated requests not to rename the Gulf of Mexico.
The White House also took revenge on the Associated Press news agency when it refused to use the name Gulf of America, restricting its reporters from attending certain events. A ruling from a federal judge ended the sidelining of the outlet.
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