Some critics are having a hard time wrapping their heads around the fact that the White House this week labeled President Trump as the dealmaker-in-chief, who claims that he’s secured more than $2 trillion in investment deals with the Middle East.
The White House has been listing dozens of deals that it shared that Trump had secured during the visits.
From energy investments to oil deals and construction, the list was plentiful, and many couldn’t help but wonder if that was all true, as it’s a lot of money, and high stakes are involved.
This was a broad calculation of how much the UAE could increase in terms of gross domestic product if it began using more cloud services.
The math behind the White House’s claim that Trump was securing trillions on this trip is fuzzy, and some contracts are not even public, so it’s hard to figure out fact from fiction.
What is interesting is how the White House continues to count announcements made months before the trip. Some claim that deals had begun before Trump came into power, so it’s not clear why he wishes to take full credit when it was not initiated by him or his administration.