Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates-President Donald Trump will return to Washington on Friday after a diplomatic tour in the Middle East, where he secured pledges to American investment, but failed to reach long peace deals in Gaza and Ukraine.
The journey was distinguished by a high -level show of conversations and luxurious offers in regional hospitality, and offered Trump’s role as a self -model as a peacemaker and the peacemaker. However, its upper goals – resolving conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine – are still far.
In Abu Dhabi, Trump was crowned his week’s tour with a visit to Al Watan Palace, the presidential palace of the emirate, where he toured exhibitions that display investments in energy, health care and aviation. According to Trade Minister Howard Lootnick and Treasury Secretary Scott Besin, the president met with business leaders and took footage in his predecessor.
“I am just thinking, we have a president of the United States who sell,” Trump said, taking criticism of former President Joe Biden, and he takes criticism of former President Joe Biden. “Do you think Biden will do this? I don’t think so.” A large screen in this event re -used its campaign logo to announce “making the energy great again”, reference to the economic focus of the trip.
Throughout the week, Trump announced major investments by the countries of the Middle East in American companies, including an investment deal worth $ 600 billion from Saudi Arabia and an agreement with Qatar Airways. To buy hundreds of aircraft From Boeing and Geospace.
The visit came amid a controversy over Trump’s passion for accepting a planned gift from the Qatari government: a luxury plane of $ 400 million and hoped to use it as the first air forces. This offer sparked a violent reaction from the Democrats and some Republicans who return home due to the possible moral, security and financial challenges.
Trump has repeatedly rejected fears about the plane, saying he “thought it was a great gesture.” He also cleaned the accusations that the journey, which came with the expansion of his company of the same name in the Middle East, created a potential conflict of interests.
However, even when he celebrated his economic victories, the president faced the departure of the ongoing wars in Gaza and Ukraine, where he pledged to solve them.
The president made ending some of the world Thorny He opposes a maximum priority from his administration, pledging to stop bloodshed and achieve permanent peace. In a strong commitment, he sent senior assistants to the case, with a special envoy to Steve Witkev, who is escalating around the world to follow the president’s goal. Before leaving Washington, Trump announced the release of Edin Alexander, an American held by Hamas, and Qatar played a major role in negotiations.
However, the president acknowledged that the big challenges remain. “We are looking at Gaza,” Trump told reporters on the Air Force one while he was leaving Abu Dhabi. “We will take care of it. Many people are starving.”
As Trump concluded his flight on Friday, Israeli air strikes killed more than 100 people during the past 24 hours, according to local health authorities.
On Friday, he was asked about the future opportunities for diplomacy face to face between him and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump answered: “We have to meet. He and I will meet. I think we’ll be dissolved, or maybe not.”
Earlier, Trump expressed his disappointment but not a surprise when Putin failed to attend a planned meeting in Türkiye. “I didn’t think he could have gone if I didn’t go,” Trump said, noting that his agenda had made the trip to be operational.
Instead, it disturbed the possibility of a breakthrough in nuclear talks with Iran. Trump told reporters on Friday that his administration had made a proposal for an agreement with Tehran, after he previously described their efforts “in very serious negotiations with Iran for a long -term peace.” Earlier this week, Trump hinted that he hoped to be a close agreement, saying that “we will not make any nuclear dust in Iran.”
On Friday, he said that the realization of the new Syrian government – and raising what he called “brutality” and “biting” – was “the right thing to do” as the new leadership strengthened its control.
Trump said on Wednesday that the trip did not flounder Benjamin Netanyahu by rid of a visit to the Israeli Prime Minister, explaining that his relations with Arab leaders are “very good for Israel.” He also said that he had arrived in Netanyahu regarding the decision to lift sanctions on Syria.
Analysts see the similarities between this trip and the TROMP 2017 round in the Middle East.
“The main thing to see is what comes after that in the region and what are the great steps that his administration takes,” said Brian Catolis, an older colleague at the Middle East Institute. After 2017, the Gulf region witnessed a rift of Qatar’s dismissal for three years and the American “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran, which he said had failed to achieve permanent results. However, the journey also laid the basis for Ibrahim’s agreements, and the 2020 agreement to normalize relations between Israel and many Arab countries, which still collects the foreign policy of Trump and Eden, which Biden sought to continue.
Trump aims to the top. “This time, Trump is looking for a historic penetration with Iran on nuclear talks and also dreaming of the Nobel Prize if he obtains that Iran is dealing or expanding Ibrahim’s agreements to include the Saudi -Israeli normalization agreement.”
Trump’s hosts also played important roles in these efforts, which helped to mediate conflicts and support negotiations, and the president admitted that there was more to do it while leaving Abu Dhabi.
“Surprises and unexpected events have a way to address American administrations from balance,” Catolis said. “The ongoing war in Gaza and the growing misery of the Palestinians who live there will be a decisive test.”
