Trump returns to Washington with investment agreements, but no big peace agreements

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirate President Donald Trump, returns to Washington on Friday after a diplomatic tour through the Middle East, where he introduced American business and secured the investment obligations, but did not promise long-term peace agreements in Gaza and Ukraine.

The trip was characterized by high -ranking conversations and wasteful exhibitions of regional hospitality and showed Trump's self -proclaimed role as a dealmaker and peace piano. Nevertheless, his highest goals – the solution to the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine – remain difficult to grasp.

In Abu Dhabi, Trump ended his one -week tour with a visit to Qasr Al Watan, the Presidential Palace of the Emirate, where he toured exhibits on tour in investments in energy, healthcare and aviation. Accompanied by Minister of Commerce Howard Lutnick and Finance Minister Scott Bessent, the President met managing directors and shot his predecessor.

“I just think we have a president of the United States who made the sale,” said Trump, beating the former President Joe Biden. “You think bidding would do that? I don't think so.” A large screen at the event implemented its campaign slogan to “make great energy again”, an allusion to the economic focus of the trip.

Trump is accompanied by the President of the VAE, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, when he is preparing for Air Force One on Friday.Brendan Smialowski / AFP – Getty Images

Throughout the week, Trump announced major investments from the Middle East in American companies, including an investment contract of 600 billion US dollars from Saudi Arabia and an agreement with Qatar Airways, hundreds of Boeing and GE Aerospace.

The visit came in the middle of controversy about Trump's willingness to accept a planned gift from the Qatarian government: a luxury aircraft of 400 million US dollars that he wants to use as Air Force One. The offer has withdrawn from Democrats and some Republicans at home due to potential ethical, security and financial challenges.

Trump repeatedly released concerns about the plane and said he “thought it was a big gesture”. He also grazed the allegations that the trip, which was expanded as its namesake to the Middle East, caused a potential conflict of interest.

But when he celebrated his economic victories, the president was faced with reality at the continuing wars in Gaza and Ukraine.

The President has made some of the world's most intricate conflicts a top priority of his administration in order to stop bloodshed and cause permanent peace. And in a show of strong commitment, he sent a top helper for the matter, whereby the special representative Steve Witkoff Hopscotch pursued the globe to the goal of the president. Before he left Washington, Trump announced the publication of Edan Alexander, an American of Hamas, with a central role in the negotiations.

However, the President admitted that considerable challenges remain. “We look at Gaza,” said Trump reporters on board the Air Force One when he left Abu Dhabi. “And we'll take care of it. Many people are starving.”

When Trump completed his trip on Friday, Israeli air raids had killed more than 100 people in the past 24 hours, according to the local health authorities.

President Donald J. Trump tours through the Abrahamic Family House — Trump visits a synagogue in the Abrahamic Family House on Friday, in which three places of worship are homeland. Win McNamee / Getty Images

On Friday, asked for future opportunities for personal diplomacy between himself and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump replied: “We have to meet. He and I will meet. I think we will solve it or maybe not.”

Trump had previously expressed disappointment, but not surprising when Putin did not take part in a planned meeting in Turkey. “I didn't think it was possible for him to go when I didn't go,” said Trump and noticed that his schedule had made the trip unsustainable.

Instead, he teased the closer possibility of breakthrough in nuclear discussions with Iran. Trump informed the reporters on Friday that his government had submitted a proposal for a contract with Tehran after describing her efforts “in very serious negotiations with Iran about long -term peace”. At the beginning of the week, Trump indicated that he hoped that an agreement was nearby and explained that “we would not do any nuclear dust in Iran.”

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi later said on Friday that his government had not received a “written proposal from the United States” and that there is “no scenario” in which Tehran would give up his nuclear program to achieve a deal with the USA

“Iran still remains determined and uncomplicated: respect our rights and end your sanctions and we have a deal” [Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty] Signer too. “

Trump also said on Friday that the recognition of the new Syrian government – and the lifting of the so -called “brutal” and “biting” sanctions – was the right one because the new leadership cemented its control.

Trump said on Wednesday that Benjamin Netanyahu was not going through by giving up a visit to the Israeli Prime Minister and stating that his relationships with Arab leaders are “very good for Israel”. He also said he had made Netanyahu about the decision to raise sanctions against Syria.

Analysts see parallels between this trip and Trumps Middle East Tour 2017.

“The most important thing is what comes next in the region and what big steps his administration takes,” said Brian Katulis, Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute. After 2017, the golf region recorded a crack that isolated Qatar for three years, and a US “maximum pressure” against Iran, from which he said he did not deliver permanent results. However, the trip also laid the foundation for the Abraham Agreement, the agreement of 2020, which normalized the relationships between Israel and several Arab states, which remains Trump's characteristic foreign policy achievements and wanted to continue to continue the bidies.

Trump aims higher. “This time Trump is looking for a historical breakthrough with Iran about the nuclear talks and also dreams of receiving a Nobel Prize if he receives this Iran deal or the Abraham Agreement is expanded to include a Saudi Israeli Normalization Agreement,” said Katulis.

Trump's hosts this week also played an important role in these efforts to convey the conflicts and support the negotiations, and the president admitted that there was more to do with Abu Dhabi.

“Unexpected surprises and events have the opportunity to get the US administrations out of balance,” said Katulis. “The continuing war in Gaza and the growing misery of the Palestinians living there who live there will give a critical test.”

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