Trump administration officials are hurrying to catch up to the president’s audacious and improbable plan for the United States to take ownership of Gaza and redevelop it into a “Middle Eastern Riviera,

President Donald Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday, capped by a first joint press conference.

Although the president had been talking about the idea for weeks, there had been no meetings on the subject, and senior members of his government were taken by surprise.