US_ Donald Trump Has Turned Foreign POTUS Trips Into Big Deals, Literally

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Donald Trump Has Turned Foreign POTUS Trips Into Big Deals, Literally

By Andrew Malcolm | 9:00 AM on May 18, 2025

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Overseas trips by United States presidents have long been carefully-choreographed stylized junkets to reinforce diplomatic relationships, offer predictable toasts to long-lasting friendships, and sign official agreements that actually were finalized long before Air Force One even departed Washington.

In effect, very expensive photo-ops designed to keep things going smoothly in bilateral relationships, like getting a regular oil change to keep a car in tune.

It probably should not have been surprising, however, that the first foreign business trip by President Donald Trump was very different, as he is very different.

My RedState colleagues provided detailed running coverage.

Remember 2013, when Joe Biden took son Hunter along to China on what was supposed to be a business trip to benefit the U.S. government? Biden actually took Hunter along to complete a multi-million-dollar business deal to benefit the Bidens.

This month's whirlwind visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates by America’s transactional chief executive was all about – wait for it! – transactions. Not just glowing palaver, but actual business done to benefit the U.S. economy.

There may be more details coming, but here's some of what we now know Trump accomplished, worth an estimated $2 trillion to the United States:

* Saudi Arabia will spend almost $142 billion on purchases from U.S. defense contractors, supporting/creating thousands of high-paying domestic jobs.
* A new $60 billion partnership between U.S. energy companies and Abu Dhabi’s state-run oil company.
* Boeing and GE Aerospace acquired record orders worth $96 billion from Qatar Airways for 210 Boeing 787 Dreamliners and 777X aircraft that will support 154,000 U.S. jobs annually.
* General Atomics got a $2 billion contract for the MQ-9B family of unmanned drones that include intelligence and surveillance drones and the Reaper.
* And a billion-dollar purchase agreement from Qatar for Raytheon’s anti-drone defense equipment.

To underline Trump’s fresh approach to Mideast diplomacy, he gave a major speech to a Riyadh business group in which he praised the region’s new generation of leaders and stated his willingness for new, more equal relationships based on peace and mutual respect:

As I have shown repeatedly, I am willing to end past conflicts and forge new partnerships for a better and more stable world, even if our differences may be very profound….

My preference will always be for peace and partnership, whenever those outcomes can be achieved. Always.

And then, the reelected U.S. leader got to his telling main point:

In recent years, far too many American presidents have been afflicted with the notion that it’s our job to look into the souls of foreign leaders and use U.S. policy to dispense justice for their sins …

I believe it is God’s job to sit in judgment — my job [is] to defend America and to promote the fundamental interests of stability, prosperity, and peace.

The four days of congeniality, friendship, and progress toward mutually desired goals came as a striking contrast to the last visit by an American president.

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