Depending on the breaks A bit over six months ago, President Biden’s June 27 debate with Donald Trump went badly for him. Embarrassingly badly. He looked old, frail. He lost his train of thought. How long had his staff been covering for him? Everyone wanted to know. It was its own mini scandal and led to Biden dropping out of the race a few weeks later. The country elected Donald Trump instead in November. Then Trump on Tuesday declared in a press conference that the United States would ethnically cleanse 1.8 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, take “a long-term ownership position” there, and develop the beachfront into a series of Trump-branded resorts. (Trump’s ownership stake was implied.) “Everybody I’ve spoken to [inside his demented head] loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land” and developing it, Trump told a roomful of reporters. It would create thousands of new jobs and be “magnificent,” Trump continued. “The Riviera of the Middle East.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel praised Trump’s “willingness to think outside the box,” reports Peter Baker of the New York Times. Not one reporter jumped up and asked the obvious question. “Mr. President, are you out of your fucking mind?” Al Jazeera has a flood of reaction from the people Trump means to relocate. “Ridiculous and absurd,” “a serious violation of international law,” “a dangerous escalation,” and a raft of carefully worded no-comments from allies and condemnation from adversaries. A UN special rapporteur on…