Trump Says No Golf, Real Estate Talk In Saudi Meetings

[ad_1] Might 14 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump , whose household has main enterprise pursuits within the Gulf nations he's visiting this week, stated there was no speak of constructing a Trump Tower in Syria or golf throughout his conferences in Saudi Arabia that ended on Wednesday.

Trump met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa throughout his first cease in Riyadh on Tuesday and Wednesday earlier than heading to Qatar.

The president made a shock announcement on Tuesday that the U.S. will take away longstanding sanctions on Syria. However he stated on Wednesday the opportunity of creating a Trump Tower in Damascus, which a Trump supporter has stated Sharaa needs, didn't come up throughout their assembly.

“We’ll have to attend a short while till issues relax,” he stated, in keeping with a pool report from the Washington Submit.

Trump additionally stated he didn't understand how the deal for a agency backed by the Abu Dhabi authorities to make use of the Trump household firm’s digital cash for a $2 billion funding in a crypto alternate took place.

“I actual ly don’t know something about it, however I’m an enormous crypto fan, I'll let you know,” he advised reporters aboard Air Drive One as he traveled to Qatar. He was scheduled to go to the United Arab Emirates on Thursday.

Requested if PGA or LIV golf got here up in his conferences with bin Salman, Trump advised reporters, “No.”

Trump , whose firm owns a lot of golf programs, has tried to dealer a deal between the warring PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia Public Funding Fund-backed LIV Golf .

Trump ’s household has cast multi-billion greenback enterprise offers within the Gulf, strikes that Democrats and different critics say might open pathways to improperly affect the president.

Qatar is contemplating giving Trump a $400 million airplane, elevating constitutional questions and moral considerations even from some fellow Republicans.

The White Home has stated there isn't any battle and that the president is performing within the pursuits of the American public and never his personal. The Trump Group has stated Trump ’s grownup youngsters handle his belongings.