What are key takeaways of Trump’s 4-day Gulf tour?

Wrapping up his first overseas swing of the second term, President Trump secured a landmark $1.4 trillion, ten-year investment pledge from the UAE and oversaw $200 billion in Qatar Airways Boeing jet orders.

In Riyadh, he finalized a $600 billion Saudi package—including $142 billion in arms sales—hailed as the largest defense deal ever.

The tour yielded a new AI security pact with Abu Dhabi’s data-center investments, lifting of long-standing Syria sanctions, and fresh momentum on Iran’s nuclear negotiations in Doha.