NYT Columnist Thomas Friedman on Trump's Gulf Tour

17/05/2025 24 min
NYT Columnist Thomas Friedman on Trump's Gulf Tour

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Episode Synopsis


Since Donald Trump returned to the White House, there's been a flurry of seismic events. There was the president’s shock proposal for a US takeover of Gaza, the infamous Oval Office meeting with the Ukrainian president Vlodomyr Zelensky and now a remarkable tour of the Gulf, announcing a lifting of sanctions for Syria. In this wide ranging interview with Saturday Extra, Pulitzer Prize winning writer and journalist Thomas Friedman analyses Donald Trump's motivations, possibilities and objectives.