President Donald Trump’s return from a high-profile, weeklong tour of the Middle East has been marked by thunderous applause from corporate leaders and administration officials alike, following the announcement of over $2 trillion in secured investment and commercial agreements.
Touted by the White House as a historic milestone in both foreign relations and economic strategy, the trip yielded landmark deals with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar—reaffirming the Trump administration’s focus on transactional diplomacy and global business expansion.
At the heart of the announcement was a $600 billion investment commitment from Saudi Arabia, followed by $200 billion in commercial partnerships with the UAE, and a record-setting $1.2 trillion economic exchange package with Qatar, which included $243.5 billion in combined commercial and defense agreements. This unprecedented haul is being cast not only as a diplomatic triumph but also as a powerful reinforcement of American manufacturing, innovation, and employment.
“The numbers don’t lie,” said Taylor Rogers, Assistant Press Secretary. “President Trump secured trillions of dollars in great deals, and his first foreign trip was a huge success.”
The business world responded in kind. Titans of industry—spanning aerospace, defense, technology, and energy—stepped forward to express gratitude for what they uniformly described as a breakthrough in international commerce.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy praised the president’s collaboration with Saudi leadership, revealing a $5 billion AI initiative in partnership with HUMAIN, a new Saudi tech startup. “This will not only bring AWS capabilities to the Kingdom but will train over 100,000 citizens,” Jassy said.
Google’s Ruth Porat added her voice to the chorus, crediting Trump’s economic diplomacy for enabling “strong execution to accelerate AI innovation in both countries.” Oracle CEO Safra Catz echoed this theme of technological alignment, stating that their cloud expansion into Saudi Arabia would drive health, economic, and security benefits across the region.
Defense contractors also rallied behind the administration. Boeing’s Kelly Ortberg called the new Qatar aircraft deal the “largest-ever for Boeing’s widebody planes,” while Lockheed Martin’s Jim Taiclet underscored how the agreement would advance “next-generation air and missile defense” capabilities in the Gulf.
From Northrop Grumman and Parsons to Baker Hughes, company leaders linked the deals directly to Trump’s foreign policy and trade frameworks, many of which were designed to streamline high-tech exports and reinforce bilateral economic relations. “This historic trip will increase U.S. jobs and economic strength,” said a Northrop Grumman spokesman.