May 14 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trumpwhose household has main enterprise pursuits within the Gulf international locations he’s visiting this week, stated there was no discuss 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. But he stated on Wednesday the potential for 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 wait a little while until things calm down,” he stated, in response to a pool report from the Washington Post.
Trump additionally stated he didn’t know the way 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 happened.
“I really don’t know anything about it, but I’m a big crypto fan, I will tell you,” he advised reporters aboard Air Force One as he traveled to Qatar. He was scheduled to go to the United Arab Emirates on Thursday.
Asked if PGA or LIV golf got here up in his conferences with bin Salman, Trump advised reporters, “No.”
Trumpwhose firm owns various golf programs, has tried to dealer a deal between the warring PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia Public Investment 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 issues even from some fellow Republicans.
The White House has stated there is no such thing as a battle and that the president is appearing within the pursuits of the American public and never his personal. The Trump Organization has stated Trump’s grownup youngsters handle his belongings.
(Reporting by Susan Heavey in Washington; extra reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
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