{"id":25141,"date":"2025-05-12T11:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T11:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-heads-to-the-middle-east-with-a-single-goal-deals-deals-deals\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T11:12:10","slug":"trump-heads-to-the-middle-east-with-a-single-goal-deals-deals-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-heads-to-the-middle-east-with-a-single-goal-deals-deals-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Heads to the Middle East With a Single Goal: Deals, Deals, Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When American presidents visit the Middle East, they usually arrive with a strategic vision for the region, even if it seems a far reach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Jimmy Carter pushed Egypt and Israel to a historic peace accord. Bill Clinton tried and failed with Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader. George W. Bush imagined his war on terrorism would ultimately lead to democratization in the region. Barack Obama went to Cairo \u201c<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/obamawhitehouse.archives.gov\/the-press-office\/remarks-president-cairo-university-6-04-09\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Trump will tour the Gulf this week in search of one thing above all else: business deals. Planes. Nuclear power. Artificial intelligence investments. Arms. Anything that puts a signature on the bottom of a page.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While planning the first major overseas trip of his second term, a four-day swing through Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, Mr. Trump told his advisers that he wanted to announce deals that would be worth more than $1 trillion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As a branding exercise it makes perfect sense. Surrounded by resource-rich royals and American business executives, Mr. Trump, who likes to brag about his deal-making skills, will scrawl his Sharpie over term sheets, and lots of them. He will visit palaces, walk on red carpets and be treated like a king in a region that is <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/05\/us\/politics\/eric-donald-jr-trump-family-deals.html\" title=\"\">increasingly vital<\/a> to the Trump family\u2019s financial interests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Yet as a strategic exercise, the trip\u2019s purpose remains foggy. During his 2017 journey to the region, Mr. Trump made waves by <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/21\/world\/middleeast\/trump-saudi-arabia-islam-speech.html\" title=\"\">rallying dozens of leaders from majority-Muslim<\/a> countries to confront and denounce extremism. It is unclear what foreign policy goals, if any, will be advanced on this visit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During the Biden administration, negotiations over selling Saudi Arabia billions of dollars in civilian nuclear equipment \u2014 and the ability to enrich their own uranium \u2014 were tied to a diplomatic objective: persuading Riyadh to recognize Israel, envisioned by the Americans as an extension of the Abraham Accords, which Mr. Trump has described as the biggest diplomatic achievement of his first term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now, the negotiation appears to be moving forward, slowly, as a stand-alone business deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump\u2019s aides insist he still wants to broker a normalization deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel. But with the war in Gaza still raging, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia has no interest in publicly embracing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel. And Mr. Trump\u2019s current interest in tying himself to Mr. Netanyahu is not much greater than the crown prince\u2019s. So a stop in Israel did not make it onto his itinerary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There will be no meeting in Riyadh between Mr. Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, as Mr. Trump had once hoped. And the Trump team has been cagey about the status of its nuclear diplomacy with Iran, not wanting to upset negotiations that have been happening behind closed doors in Oman, a country Mr. Trump is not visiting on this trip.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cGoing to the Middle East right now is more about economics, not strategy,\u201d said Dennis B. Ross, a longtime Middle East peace negotiator now at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. \u201cHe clearly likes these kinds of trips that have announcements of big deals, because this is his preoccupation. His focus, his priority, is much more on the economic, financial side of things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In place of grand strategy will be a series of financial transactions that Mr. Trump will promote as producing jobs for American workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The agenda conveniently aligns with Mr. Trump\u2019s expanding business plans. His family has six pending deals with a majority Saudi-owned real estate firm, a cryptocurrency deal with an affiliate of the government of the United Arab Emirates and a new golf and luxury villa project backed by the government of Qatar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Qataris are going to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/11\/us\/politics\/trump-qatar-jet-gift-air-force-one.html\" title=\"\">great lengths<\/a> to court Mr. Trump. The Trump administration is poised to accept a luxury Boeing 747-8 plane as a donation from the Qatari royal family that will be upgraded to serve as Air Force One, in possibly the biggest foreign gift ever received by the U.S. government, several American officials with knowledge of the matter said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The plan under discussion raises substantial ethical issues, especially given that Mr. Trump could use the $400 million plane after he leaves office, receiving it as a donation to his presidential library. (The White House press secretary said Sunday that any deal would comply with the law, and Qatari officials said it was still under review.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar manage trillions of dollars in assets around the world, and have increasingly become <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/20\/world\/middleeast\/trump-saudi-arabia-diplomacy.html\" title=\"\">diplomatic<\/a> and financial forces to reckon with. But their foreign policies have diverged from America\u2019s in recent years. The three countries have forged close ties with China, Russia and Iran in addition to the United States, which remains their indispensable defense ally and operates military bases in their territories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For Prince Mohammed, the president\u2019s decision to make the kingdom one of the destinations of his first major trip abroad \u2014 <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/04\/us\/politics\/trump-to-visit-saudi-arabia-and-israel-in-first-foreign-trip.html\" title=\"\">for a second time<\/a> \u2014 lends validation to his belief that Saudi Arabia is a rising global power, with a gravitational pull that powerful leaders cannot ignore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As Mr. Trump visits these authoritarian states, he can feel assured he will not be subject to the sort of protests and hostility he would expect if he visited some of America\u2019s allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, like Canada or Germany, where he is deeply unpopular.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The royal families of the Gulf know better than anybody how to speak Mr. Trump\u2019s language.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He raved for years about his gilded reception in Saudi Arabia in 2017, in his first foreign trip as president. They projected a multistory image of Mr. Trump\u2019s face onto the facade of Riyadh\u2019s Ritz-Carlton hotel, where Prince Mohammed later <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/06\/world\/middleeast\/ritz-carlton-riyadh-saudi-princes.html\" title=\"\">imprisoned<\/a> opponents. American flags lined the highways, the country singer Toby Keith performed for a full house of Saudi fans and Mr. Trump joined in a traditional sword dance. During a visit to a center for countering extremism, the president placed his hands on a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/22\/world\/middleeast\/trump-glowing-orb-saudi.html\" title=\"\">glowing orb<\/a> alongside King Salman of Saudi Arabia and President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Yet Mr. Trump left office in 2021 believing that the crown prince owed him. He had come to Prince Mohammed\u2019s defense at a time when Western elites were shunning him after the murder of the Washington Post columnist and Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While Prince Mohammed denied knowing about the killing in 2018, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/02\/26\/us\/report-jamal-khashoggi-killing.html\" title=\"\">the C.I.A. assessed that he was likely to have approved the mission<\/a> by Saudi assassins, and there was a bipartisan outcry in Washington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Mr. Trump, after declaring that he would follow the evidence and take action against Mr. Khashoggi\u2019s killers, stood by Prince Mohammed and took credit for rescuing him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI saved his ass,\u201d Mr. Trump told the journalist Bob Woodward in early 2020. \u201cI was able to get Congress to leave him alone. I was able to get them to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The crown prince has returned the favor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">No part of the world has been more important to the rising financial well-being of the Trump family than the Middle East, particularly since 2021, in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, after which Mr. Trump and his relatives were treated as pariahs by much of America\u2019s corporate community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was in that climate that Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump\u2019s son-in-law and his former senior White House adviser, started his own investment fund. His biggest financier became Prince Mohammed. Six months after Mr. Kushner left the White House, the crown prince overrode concerns from his investment advisers and ensured that the Saudi sovereign wealth fund invested $2 billion with Mr. Kushner\u2019s company, making the Saudis by far its largest investor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump had his own problems at the time. He was furious when the P.G.A. of America voted, after the Capitol riot, to strip his New Jersey golf course of the P.G.A. Championship. This was far more than a financial blow; it was personally painful for Mr. Trump. Golf is central to the Trump brand, and there was no bigger stamp of approval than hosting the P.G.A. Championship event at Trump National in Bedminster, N.J.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Fortuitously, in 2021, the same sovereign wealth fund that had invested $2 billion with Mr. Kushner \u2014 the Public Investment Fund \u2014 started the breakaway LIV Golf. The Saudis spent millions poaching top P.G.A. golfers, and the new circuit posed a significant threat to the PGA Tour before the two sides signed a preliminary partnership deal in 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The timing was perfect for Mr. Trump, and he saw an opportunity to put his golf courses back on the world map. LIV Golf has held tournaments at Mr. Trump\u2019s courses for four consecutive years, raising the international profile of Mr. Trump\u2019s golf resorts and driving revenue to his hotels and restaurants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump\u2019s family also has signed deals with a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.daralarkan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DAR_annual-report-2024_EN_Mar24.pdf#page=59\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">majority Saudi-owned<\/a> real estate company to build projects in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/darglobal.co.uk\/trump-tower-jeddah\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Jeddah<\/a>, in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/darglobal.co.uk\/trump-international-hotel-and-tower-dubai\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Dubai<\/a> and in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/darglobal.co.uk\/aida-trump-international-hotel\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Muscat, Oman<\/a>, among other locations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Tuesday, when Mr. Trump is scheduled to arrive, the Saudi government is planning to host an investment forum with the White House crypto czar David Sacks and other American business leaders, including the chief executives of IBM, BlackRock, Citigroup, Palantir and Qualcomm, a semiconductor company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Prince Mohammed has pledged to invest $600 billion in the United States over the next four years \u2014 a number that economists say is highly unlikely to materialize as the kingdom grapples with a cash crunch. The Emiratis have pledged $1.4 trillion in U.S. investment over 10 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the ruler of the United Arab Emirates, has increasingly <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/08\/world\/middleeast\/uae-russia-china-us.html\" title=\"\">struck out<\/a> on his own path. The country\u2019s growing links with both American rivals like China and expanding economies like India are in preparation for a world that may someday be no longer dominated by the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the Gulf leaders appreciate Mr. Trump\u2019s transactional nature. The American president, they have found, does not lecture them about human rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Eric Lipton<!-- --> and <!-- -->Maggie Haberman<!-- --> contributed reporting from Washington.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/12\/us\/politics\/trump-middle-east-visit-saudi-arabia-qatar-uae.html\">Source link 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