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Dozens of world leaders head to Washington for what White House says will largely be a fundraiser on Thursday

Dozens of world leaders and national delegations will meet in Washington DC tomorrow for the inaugural meeting of Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, as major European allies declined to join the group and criticised the organisation’s murky funding and political mandate.

The White House has indicated that tomorrow’s summit for his new ad hoc council at the renamed Donald J Trump Institute of Peace will heavily function as a fundraising round, with Trump announcing on social media that countries have pledged more than $5bn toward rebuilding Gaza, which has been devastated in the war with Israel and remains in a humanitarian crisis.

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But, despite Trump’s characteristic bombast, the Board of Peace summit will open to heavy scepticism, with expectations limited both for the meeting tomorrow in Washington and in the Middle East, where the 100-day peace and recovery plan announced by Jared Kushner in Davos has stalled and aid into Gaza remains at a trickle.

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[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 38 points 3 days ago

“The White House has indicated that tomorrow’s summit for his new ad hoc council at the renamed Donald J Trump Institute of Peace will heavily function as a fundraising round”.

HA HA HA! Oh wait, this isn’t The Onion?

[–] feddylemmy@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

will heavily function as a fundraising round, with Trump announcing on social media that countries have pledged more than $5bn toward rebuilding Gaza

And will the rebuild be for the Palestinians?

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 days ago

Epstein Island II.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

The who? Never heard of them.

[–] agingelderly@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You have to be stupider than trump to fall for his dumb schemes and it is depressing that any world leader is dumber than trump. I hate this place

[–] kevin@programming.dev 20 points 3 days ago

They aren't dumb, they know that it is a bribe.

[–] mayabuttreeks@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

WHERE does this motherfucker get off?? What kind of lunatic still has the audacity to claim some right to head a Board of PEACE when 75% of the headlines I've read today said he's been gasping, sweating and salivating in anticipation of getting to start yet another idiotic middle east war, this time with Iran, of all places...

[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

It's a "Board of Peace" that you can join the same way you could join the Board of Not Having Your Storefront Shot To Pieces, somewhere around 1920s Chicago: with regular payments.

[–] middlemanSI@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

They misspelled genocide

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

He gotta grift foreign countries now? Did he run out of gifts to pull on Americans?

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Dozens? As in more than 24?

[–] lithiumground@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

There is no Peace ,it is just illusion of USA and Israel named peace but it is chaos

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago

Don't they have to buy in to. I swear he can't do anything unless its a scam. On the whole its pretty trumpy.