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Dan Alexander
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Senior editor at Forbes. Author of White House, Inc.: How Donald Trump Turned the Presidency into a Business.
Has Donald Trump's business benefited from his political relationship with Saudi Arabia?

NPR's Morning Edition had some great questions today. See a snippet of our conversation below and the full interview here: www.npr.org/2025/11/21/n...
November 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Donald Trump and NVIDIA chief executive Jensen Huang have grown very close recently, which makes sense, if you understand Donald Trump--and all that America's most valuable company has to gain from him.
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Donald Trump took in $21 million from a Saudi real estate firm last year. He will probably receive at least that much again this year—and there appear to be even more deals in the pipeline.
November 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Donald Trump claimed he had “nothing to do” with his family business yesterday. Nonsense.
November 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Before his first term, Donald Trump promised to do no new foreign deals, touting his decision to turn down a supposed-$2-billion offer from a developer in the United Arab Emirates.

Eight years later, he's striking new agreements all over the world--and especially in the United Arab Emirates.
October 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Trump, who never divested his businesses but somehow still tried to claim that he had separated from them, is now telling his underlings how they should run things via a social-media pronouncement.
April 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM