{"id":94907,"date":"2025-05-21T06:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T06:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/separating-the-hype-from-the-substance-of-trumps-middle-east-trip\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T06:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T06:30:12","slug":"separating-the-hype-from-the-substance-of-trumps-middle-east-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/separating-the-hype-from-the-substance-of-trumps-middle-east-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Separating the Hype from the Substance of Trump\u2019s Middle East Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President Trump\u2019s four-day visit to the Middle East featured splashy business deals, very little talk about human rights abuses and plenty of ethical questions \u2013 like ones raised by the gift of a lavish $400 million plane from Qatar for Trump to use as a temporary Air Force One.<\/p>\n<p>In many ways trip was a reset of relations \u2013 especially with Saudi Arabia, whose president was shunned by the Biden Administration, and Syria, whose new leader will benefit from Trump ending U.S. economic sanctions despite concerns over the country\u2019s new leader.<\/p>\n<p>NPR White House Correspondent Franco Ordo\u00f1ez covered the trip and he joins co-hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/news\/2025\/05\/20\/separating-the-hype-from-the-substance-of-trumps-middle-east-trip\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump\u2019s four-day visit to the Middle East featured splashy business deals, very little talk about human rights abuses and plenty of ethical questions \u2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-spotlight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}