‘Magnificent’, ‘handsome’: Trump’s fascination for Gulf leaders

David Hunter
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The Arab leaders of the Gulf were “looking at love”, so the president of the United States, Donald Trump, bathed them with an almost endless praise duration, a tour full of Bromance and agreements of one billion dollars this week.

Be careful for increasing content issues, such as Human Rights, Trump rained the fulfillment to the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates while moving between palaces, commercial forums and luxurious state dinners.

Speaking at an investment conference in Riad, the Saudi heir prince Mohammed Bin Salman played: “I like you too much!”

He said that the prince, the facto leader of the kingdom, and Qatar Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani were “high and handsome types that are very intelligent.”

In Abu Dhabi, the president of the EAU, Sheikh Mohamed Bin, Zayed, a “magnificent man” and a “truly great warrior.”

But perhaps the most surprising fulfillment of his Gulf tour was the one who paid the jihadist turned into Syria turned into president after promising to raise the sanctions to the country beaten by the war in a surprise announcement in Riyadh.

Trump said Ahmed al-Sharaa was “a young and attractive guy” after the first meeting between the leaders of the two countries in 25 years.

“Oh, what I do for the heir prince,” the president of the United States laughed at a roaring applause when announcing the seismic diplomatic change that Riyad had pressed.

His approach was in marked contrast to the infamous fist of his predecessor Joe Biden with the prince, when they have promised to make the kingdom a “outcast” campaign.

– ‘Perfect Marble’ – –

The inclination of the rich Gulf monarchy for luxury probably found a Trump reception audience.

In Qatar, the president who recently decorated the Oval office with golden and coasters of the Gold brand and the Trump brand that complemented the “perfect marble” of the emir headquarters, the Amiri Diwan.

Air Force One was escorted by combat aircraft of each Gulf country duration of the tour, a gesture that has probably touched the president.

Trump has plans to celebrate a strange military parade in Washington next month to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the United States Army with his 79th birthday.

He regretted that his own presidential plane was much less impression than new “new” Jets “in an interview with Fox News.

His comments were the last soap aimed at critics who accused him of flagrant corruption, after Qatar offered to donate a luxury plane before his visit for presidential and then personal use.

Trump had accused that he would be “stupid” to reject that gift, despite facing the criticisms of his own party.

Republican senator Rand Paul said in a Fox News interview: “I wonder if our ability to judge his human rights history would be clouded by the fact of this great gift.”

– ‘Favorite Dictor’ –

The president of the United States has had a fascination with the Egyptian president of strong men, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, his “favorite dictator” lasted his first mandate.

Trump also remained silent about human rights problems duration of his four -day tour, which focused mainly on sealing agreements of billions of dollars.

Instead, he doubled insisting: “Saudi Arabia has shown that critics are totally wrong” and calling the impulse of modernization of Bin Salman “truly extraordinary.”

When addressing an investment forum in Riyad, the “western interventionists beaten … giving conferences on how to live or how to govern their own issues.”

“The glamorous wonders of Riad and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so -called ‘nations builders’,’ Neocons’ or ‘Liberal non -profit organizations,” he said, firing the previous administrations that supervised military invasions and interventions.

“I think it’s God’s work to sit in the trial, my work [is] Defend the United States and promote the fundamental interests of stability, prosperity and peace. “

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