Friday, May 16, 2025
Day 117
1 documented win
Gulf investment wave
The win
A Middle East trip locked in large-scale investment and energy deals aimed at U.S. jobs, AI, and defense production rather than lectures.
For Americans
Sovereign money that builds a plant in the U.S. is paychecks. The trip was sold as commerce, not another forever-war tour.
For people abroad
Gulf partners get American energy, American AI, and a White House that treats them as commercial allies instead of a scolding. That is how a region buys stability: contracts, not another occupation.