During the second day of Trump's Middle East trip, he announced a major deal between Boeing and Qatar Airways and signed an agreement with Qatar; he also met with Syria's interim president.

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President Donald Trump arrived Wednesday in Qatar, as he’s made clear he wants the $400 million plane the country is expected to gift him, despite bipartisan criticism of security and conflict-of-interest concerns.

Trump attended a meeting with the leaders of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE before traveling to Doha, Qatar, on his trip’s second leg.

“The Boeing 747 is being given to the United States Air Force/Department of Defense, NOT TO ME! It is a gift from a Nation, Qatar, that we have successfully defended for many years,” Trump said in a post on his social media platform, Truth Social, late on Tuesday, May 13.

President Donald Trump announced that the Persian Gulf emirate of Qatar was giving the United States a Boeing 747-8 jet to replace the aging Air Force One aircrafts used by the president. But the proposed gift has raised a maelstrom of legal questions from Democrats,

Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani met Donald Trump at the state dinner hosted by Qatar in the US president’s honour. Elon Musk also attended.

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) trolled President Donald Trump by flying a banner that read “Welcome to Qatar-a-Lago” over Mar-a-Lago Wednesday. The DNC put together the stunt after Trump confirmed that he would be accepting a $400 million luxury jet—dubbed the “palace in the sky”—from the Qatari government.