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You're an amazing country, you're a rich country, you couldn't have your choice, but I know you'll never leave my side, and you know the special relationship that we have in our country has. We have now, I think, substantially over $10 trillion of investment, and now when I add the $1.4 trillion, we easily break that number. We really appreciate your confidence and investment that's your biggest investment that you've ever made, and we really appreciate it, and we're going to treat you very, as you should be, magnificently, and you're a magnificent man, and it's an honor to be with you. Two countries also agreed to create a path for UAE to buy some of the world's most advanced AI semiconductors from American companies, a very big contract. This will generate billions and billions of dollars in business and accelerate the UAE's plans to become a really major player in artificial intelligence, so it's a great tribute to the job you've done here. I'm very proud to be representing the United States of America, and thank you all for being here.

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It's a true privilege to visit your country, special country, and gather as friends. I'm honored to be the first American president ever to officially visit. To the Amir, to the royal family, and to this entire nation, congratulations on a spectacular job. As president, I'm proud that our growing friendship is blossoming into a full-fledged economic and security partnership. We're setting records on this trip. We're bringing a lot of investment back into the United States of America. We'll be well over ten trillion dollars. I want to thank your Highness for helping with that number. You know you can count on us and you know that it's going to be a great investment for you. So tonight, let us give thanks for the blessings of this friendship. We have a great friendship. I want to wish peace to the Amir and to all Qataris working together. We can help the Qatar region unlock its potential. So I just want to say it's an honor to be with you.

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We believe in peace through strength, you have to have the strength. I believe it is God's job to sit in judgment, my job to defend America and to promote the fundamental interest of stability, prosperity and peace. We had 52 days of thunder and lightning on the Houthis in Yemen like they've never seen before. This was a swift ferocious decisive and extremely successful use of military force. So we hit them hard, we got what we came for and then we got out. The gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called nation builders neocons or liberal non-profits. The birth of a modern Middle East has been brought by the people of the region themselves. This prosperity and progress ultimately came not from a radical rejection of your heritage but rather from embracing your national traditions and embracing that same heritage that you love so dearly.

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massive amount of business investment coming back to the U.S. and they're still adding it up in each country. Which, by the way, most importantly, that's why I came here. I didn't come here to say, gee, you guys are rich and you have a lot of oil. You know, they have a lot of money, and I want them to spend the money in the United States. And we set records. There's never been a trip like this by any president or anybody ever before. And I'd ask him, how about doubling it up? Okay, oh, I should have asked for more because they said, okay, they're good people and they love our country. And look, they have great danger because of Iran. That's their primary danger. And that makes them vulnerable. But I don't see them as being vulnerable because I think we have the greatest military in the world and we're adding to it now at levels that nobody's ever seen. We're going to build the Iron Dome. We deserve an Iron Dome. You know, see, we call it two names. So I was going to call it the Iron Dome because that's the name everyone has heard of for years. But to me, it was old fashioned. So we changed it recently to the Golden Dome, the beautiful Golden Dome. And Ronald Reagan, you know, Ronald Reagan wanted that many years ago, and he was right, except you didn't have anywhere near the technology.

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- Well, I always considered it to be a very important region. I know all three leaders, as you could see, very well. In all three cases, I knew them long before I ran for politics, which is sort of something. It makes it a little bit more special. They're great people. The three of them, they're great people. And it's a great region, but it was never treated properly. And it was certainly not treated well by Biden, who didn't know he was alive, frankly. So, you know, you can understand that. But he was not, he didn't treat, they didn't treat this group well. And I think they were being, and I guess you know, 'cause you've reported on it, they were being coaxed very strongly by China, 'cause that solves China's fuel problem forever. And it wasn't their preference, but they were on their way, they were going to China, and that was going to be their parent. And that's not happening anymore. - Do you think you've shifted the paradigm on that? - No, I don't think, I know. We are as close, we're closer now to them than ever before. You could see the relationship. You could get a body expert and pay them a lot of money, they could tell you. No, there's just a relationship that I have with all three that's just, you know, very extraordinary. I was even saying, you know, we're like so friendly, not a normal situation where you're okay with a leader or whatever. But this is a very important region. This is the energy capital of the world. They have massive amounts of energy and other things. They've invested wisely, and they're looking to do other things. I guess in Saudi Arabia, they said, in another couple of years, there'll be more than 50% other businesses represent more than 50% of the take. And it's pretty amazing what all of them have done.

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Upon landing in Qatar, all eyes are going to be on what happens in these high level talks, in these high level meetings, because, like we said with Elie Kohanim at the start of our show. The elephant clearly in the room here is the fact that Qatar has bankrolled Hamas to the tune of almost $2 billion. And in light of the fact that Israel is currently fighting a war against Hamas and has been since October 7th of 2023. This is a topic that needs to be broached. What will Qatar do going forward? Will they continue their path of helping Hamas or will they sort of follow their most recent approach, which is to try and distance themselves from the terror regime as much as possible? Yeah, and you just saw, I mean, look at these warm relations clearly still on display with the president doing the fist pump in the air and putting his hand over his heart.

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