Is Trump’s Middle East Policy a Break From the Past?
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🗓️ 23 May 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:55.8 | Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump visited three countries in the Middle East, |
| 1:01.0 | Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar. Excluding a quick visit to the Vatican for Pope Francis's |
| 1:07.7 | funeral, this was the first foreign trip of his second term, a signal of his |
| 1:12.9 | priorities. Many of the headlines from the trip focused on the 747 jetliner that Qatar offered |
| 1:20.1 | for use as Air Force One, or deals with Gulf States supposedly worth more than a trillion dollars. |
| 1:26.9 | We'll have to wait and see |
| 1:28.2 | how much of that pans out. But in terms of substance, it might be more notable that Trump |
| 1:34.2 | gave a speech in Riyadh, stating that there would be, quote, no more lectures from America |
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