Here's Why Elon Musk Is In The Middle East With Trump

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It’s no surprise Elon Musk is joining President Donald Trump on his Arabian jaunt. His businesses have been lapping up petrostate money for years.  Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnhyatt/2025/05/14/musks-saudi-trip-caps-gulf-dealmaking-spree/  Subscribe to FORBES: https://www.youtube.com/user/Forbes?sub_confirmation=1  Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more:  https://account.forbes.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=growth_non-sub_paid_subscribe_ytdescript  Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes:  http://forbes.com  Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success.

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00:00Elon Musk has been a central figure in the Trump administration since January when Trump took

00:07office. And although Musk has taken a bit of a step back in the last couple weeks as he's pledged

00:14to reduce his involvement in Doge and to get more involved at his companies, despite that,

00:22you know, this was a big sort of foreign policy push from Trump. And Elon Musk has a history of

00:28doing deals with the Saudis. And it was a big U.S.-Saudi business conference with other CEOs and

00:35billionaire investors. So it was only natural that Elon would be there making himself known.

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