{"id":137491,"date":"2025-05-15T06:26:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T06:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-shrugs-off-qatar-jet-fury-announces-96bn-boeing-deal-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T06:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T06:26:14","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-president-shrugs-off-qatar-jet-fury-announces-96bn-boeing-deal-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-shrugs-off-qatar-jet-fury-announces-96bn-boeing-deal-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: President shrugs off Qatar jet fury, announces $96bn Boeing deal – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump\u2019s foreign policy approach in the Middle East is coming under scrutiny as he announces new deals on his Gulf tour. Key US politics stories from Wednesday 14 May at a glance
As Donald Trump<\/a> brushed off fierce criticism over his plan to accept a $400m luxury jet from the Qatari government, the president announced a lucrative deal for Boeing to supply the Gulf nation with 210 planes.
Trump announced the $96bn contract \u2013\u00a0the largest-ever order of widebody Boeing planes \u2013 during a trip to Doha on Wednesday. The White House claims the aviation agreement will support 154,000 American jobs annually, though it was unclear how those figures were calculated.
Trump has said Qatar\u2019s offer for a Boeing 747-8 jetliner to use as Air Force One was too good to refuse, complaining the current presidential aircraft in underwhelming.
\u201cThe plane that you\u2019re on is almost 40 years old,\u201d Trump told the Fox News host Sean Hannity during an interview on Air Force One. \u201cWhen you land and you see Saudi Arabia, you see UAE and you see Qatar, and they have these brand-new Boeing 747s, mostly. You see ours next to it \u2013 this is like a totally different plane.\u201d
The Qatar<\/a> Airways purchase of Boeing jets formed the centrepiece of several economic agreements signed in Doha valued at more than $243bn. Trump also secured a statement of intent for more than $38bn in future defense investments from Qatar, further intertwining America\u2019s economic and security relationships with the Gulf state now offering him a luxury aircraft.
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Trump met Syria\u2019s president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, in Saudi Arabia, telling the former jihadist he had an \u201cextraordinary opportunity\u201d and said Washington is exploring normalizing ties with Damascus. His comments come a day after he announced all US sanctions on Syria would be lifted.
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The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr<\/a>, refused to say whether he would vaccinate his children if he had to choose today, and defended Republicans\u2019 proposal to cut healthcare to fund tax cut extensions.
While he said he would \u201cprobably\u201d vaccinate his children for measles, he added that his \u201copinions about vaccines are irrelevant \u2026 I don\u2019t want to seem like I\u2019m being evasive, but I don\u2019t think people should be taking advice, medical advice, from me.\u201d
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A Virginia<\/a> federal judge has ordered the immediate release of Georgetown academic Badar Khan Suri from Ice detention during a hearing. Khan Suri was among several individuals legally studying<\/a> in the US who have been targeted by the Trump administration for pro-Palestinian activism. He has spent two months in detention.
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Trump administration<\/a>\u2019s commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, and his family have had extensive business interests linked to El Salvador<\/a>, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and Office of Government Ethics, as well as public records in the US and El Salvador. The country\u2019s authoritarian leader, Nayib Bukele, has grown close to the White House and has courted controversy by allowing the imprisonment of people deported in the US\u2019s immigration crackdown to a notorious Cecot prison.
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Republicans<\/a>\u2019 newest tax bill threatens to exclude millions of families<\/a> from a tax credit meant to ease household financial burdens, even as conservatives are increasingly claiming policies designed to entice families to have more babies.
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US senator, Lindsey Graham, a close ally of Donald Trump, is expected to brief European leaders on Thursday in Antalya on his plans to push through Congress sanctions designed to devastate the Russian economy if Vladimir Putin<\/a> does not show a willingness to negotiate the future of Ukraine in good faith.
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California\u2019s governor wants his state to stop<\/strong> enrolling more low-income immigrants without legal status in a state-funded healthcare program in 2026<\/a>.
A former special counsel prosecutor invoked the fifth amendment<\/strong> during a deposition before a Republican-led committee probing alleged politicization in Trump\u2019s prosecutions<\/a>.
The Trump administration\u2019s transportation secretary<\/strong> switched his wife\u2019s flight to help her avoid flying out of troubled Newark Liberty airport, one of the busiest in the New York area<\/a>.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on 13 May 2025<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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