Qatar's offer to gift U.S. President Trump a Boeing 747-8 airplane is a "normal thing that happens between allies", Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said on Tuesday at an economic forum held in Doha.

The Qatar-Boeing deal is the latest in a series of high-profile aviation agreements signed during Trump’s four-day Middle East visit. Just a day earlier, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund inked a $4.8 billion agreement with Boeing, and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced a $10 billion order from a British airline.

United States President Donald Trump's high tariffs, as previously laid out in this column, are not primarily aimed at increasing revenue for the US government, but rather at forcing countries around the world to quickly initiate a new round of trade negotiations with Washington.

The contrasts in presidential leadership were fully on display this week, with President Donald Trump logging his most consequential seven-day span yet and former President Joe Biden’s four-year fog finally confirmed as an undeniable fact.

This article is authored by Ayanangsha Maitra, journalist and fellow with Centre for Geoeconomics for the Global South, UAE.

As U.S. President Trump leaves the Middle East, his tour concludes with major deals and notable diplomatic shifts.

By Samia Nakhoul and James Mackenzie DUBAI (Reuters) -Nothing captured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's isolation more starkly this week than the image of U.S. President Donald Trump shaking hands with Syria's Islamist leader Ahmed al‑Sharaa - a man Israel has branded "an al‑Qaeda terrorist in a suit.

Now Trump is back in the Middle East, blending business and diplomacy from May 13 to 16 ... the idea of possibly accepting the gift of a Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet from the royal family of Qatar ...

Executives from Google, Nvidia, and BlackRock are slated to speak at the Saudi-US Investment Forum as Trump courts Saudi investments.