The start of #Trump’s 2nd term has been punctuated w/more than a dozen of these lucrative transactions for his family & partners: #RealEstate deals from #Qatar to #Serbia that involve #ForeignGovernments, a new banklike #crypto venture that has pulled in $2B from the govt of the #UAE, a golf tournament at his Miami club sponsored by a #Saudi-funded venture. Trump is estimated to have added billions to his personal fortune, …since the start of his new term, much of it through crypto.

#JamalKhashoggi #saudi #SaudiArabia #ksa #amazon #bezos

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This is 1 of 6 #RealEstate projects now planned in the #MiddleEast, sponsored by #DarGlobal, the international subsidiary of a #Saudi-based real estate firm with close ties to the #SaudiRoyalFamily. The other projects are in #SaudiArabia, #Oman & #Dubai.

“They always arrive at the word ‘yes,’ which is a beautiful thing,”Eric #Trump said while in Dubai this past wk, saying that it took only a month to get the required real estate permits from the govt there…

In some cases, the #Trump-family announcements over the past week have involved #ForeignGovernments, including those of #Qatar & the #UAE.

#EricTrump flew to #Doha, the capital of the tiny #MiddleEast nation of Qatar, on Wednesday as a govt official there signed a deal with a #Saudi-based #RealEstate company to build a new Trump golf course & luxury villa complex, a partnership & will bring millions of dollars in branding & mgmt fees to the Trump family.

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This shows an important shift that has been bubbling. RU has been a repeat violator of OPEC+ agreements to manipulate the price by limiting production - Saudi's lost market share to RU cheating, RU cheating because of their inability to win a prolonged illegal war on UKR. Trump promised his US billionaire oil barons he'd pay them back by eliminating regulations and opening more drilling - another attack on Saudi's market share. Wind and solar generation are growing - more impingement on Saudi share. Saudis are seeing the limits to their Trump investment brides, it's not paying off the way he promised.
Since February, Trump and his stupid (Mexico and Canada, then April's everyone else) tariffs and his remarkably adolescent uncoordinated international dealings, I've revised my budget estimates to lower my projected 2025/2026 heating season oil fuel costs. Saudis have smarter better forecasters than me, they see the writing on the wall, too. So does every professional oil trader.
Trump is bent on wrecking EVERY nation's economy because he's a stupid self-pitying egocentric idiot. Trump is only good for Making China Great, Again.

…#HumanRights Watch reported in 2023 that #Saudi border guards used explosive weapons & gunfire to kill hundreds of Ethiopian migrants, including women & children, trying to cross the border. A Saudi ofcl rejected the report.

#SaudiArabia, the world's biggest #oil exporter, has tried for years to reduce the number of #undocumented migrants entering & working there, often in low-paid jobs. UN studies have shown it is home to an estimated 750k #Ethiopians.

#HumanRights advocates have raised concerns about #civilian killings. Three Democratic senators wrote to #Pentagon chief #PeteHegseth on Thurs demanding an accounting for loss of civilian lives.

…Hundreds of thousands of people seeking to escape poverty travel each year through the Horn of Africa & across the Red Sea to journey by foot through #Yemen to the #Saudi border, #aid agency officials say.

Instead, #Trump went to Florida, where he visited his Doral golf resort, which was hosting the #Saudi-backed #LIVGolf tournament, & stayed at his Mar-a-Lago club, where many tournament fans & sponsors were staying too. His private businesses took precedence over the business of the nation.