Americans who love a winner should be thanking, not sneering at, the deals our president is cutting in the Gulf. Over the past year the United Arab Emirates — and Abu Dhabi in particular — has opened the checkbook to American projects and companies in a way that would have been unthinkable under timid, Washington-first elites.
Reports show that a huge portion of the president’s foreign earnings trace back to partnerships and licensing arrangements with Gulf interests, and that those relationships are now maturing into even larger commercial commitments. Those who scream about money changing hands ignore the basic fact: sovereign investors buying into American growth is a net positive for workers, manufacturers, and technology firms across our country.
Look at the numbers Abu Dhabi and the UAE are putting on the table — headline figures into the hundreds of billions for trade, commercial deals, and AI and energy projects that will spin off jobs and investment into the American heartland. These are not charity; these are market bets on American ingenuity, and we ought to welcome the capital when it creates opportunity for hardworking citizens.
Some of the biggest tickets involve AI, data centers, and infrastructure — areas where America must lead or cede the future. Abu Dhabi’s sovereign funds and private Gulf investors are lining up to finance data centers, chip access deals, and other high-tech projects that complement U.S. firms and keep innovation on our shores rather than letting it drift offshore. That kind of strategic investment strengthens our economy and national power.
Of course Democrats and the media love to frame every foreign transaction as some sort of scandal, but thoughtful oversight is different from reflexive condemnation. Congress has raised legitimate questions about crypto deals and foreign involvement — scrutiny that should be routine and fair — but it shouldn’t be a veto on every foreign capital inflow that benefits American workers.
The Trump approach is straightforward: attract capital, cut red tape, and let private enterprise and American workers reap the rewards. Critics who complain that the president’s brand brings in buyers miss the point that this administration is turning global interest into real projects, real payrolls, and real technological progress here at home.
If you worry about influence, push for transparent, nonpartisan review — not a campaign of character assassination that would frighten off investors and cost Americans jobs. We can have both: commonsense rules that protect national security and a pro-growth policy that invites billions in investment, because leaving money on the table while our rivals gobble it up is neither patriotic nor smart.
Patriots want opportunity for their children, not performative outrage from self-serving elites. The Gulf capital coming into American soil under this administration is buying factories, data centers, and aircraft orders that mean paychecks and prosperity for ordinary Americans — and that is something to defend, not denigrate.
