Trump Loops Emiratis Into American-Made Chips Supply Chain
President Donald Trump announced a deal Friday clearing the United Arab Emirates to buy top-tier American artificial intelligence semiconductors, pulling the Gulf ally into the U.S.’s fast-growing chip ecosystem.
The agreement — finalized in Abu Dhabi, the last stop of Trump’s three-nation Middle East tour — caps a week of AI-heavy announcements, from Saudi Arabia to Qatar, that could control where the world’s most valuable computing power is built and who has access to it.
“Yesterday the two countries also agreed to create a path for the UAE to buy some of the world’s most advanced AI semiconductors from American companies, a very big contract,” Trump told business leaders at the Qasr Al-Watan palace. “This will generate billions and billions of dollars in business and accelerate the UAE’s plans to become a really major player in artificial intelligence.”
“In the UAE, American companies will operate the data centers and offer American-managed cloud services throughout the region,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said in a press release, stressing “strong security guarantees” to prevent any diversion of American-origin technology.
“Thankful for a great week in the Gulf with President Trump,” Lutnick later posted on X. “We secured over $3 trillion in new investments and announced our first AI acceleration partnership. This is just the beginning.”
Thankful for a great week in the Gulf with President Trump. We secured over $3 trillion in new investments and announced our first AI acceleration partnership. This is just the beginning.
— Howard Lutnick (@howardlutnick) May 16, 2025
The Emirati deal is just one in a series of Gulf negotiations. In Riyadh on Tuesday, Saudi-backed startup Humain ordered 18,000 Nvidia chips for a data center and lined up an AMD partnership, a combined $10 billion arrangement; Amazon Web Services pledged another $5 billion for an “AI zone” that will train Saudi government models.
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History is repeating itself in President Trump’s newest trade deal folly with Islamic countries in the middle east. Long-term/short-term thinking is the ideological black hole of trade deals with Islamic countries in 2025, just as it was when Nixon/Kissinger opened trade with Communist China in 1971. Islamism and Communism are both binary, expansionist, socio-political, totalitarian ideologies of rulers and ruled. Whether religious or secular, they are both doctrinal variations on the supremacist theme of absolute totalitarian control. Like Communism, Islam has a long-term strategy and never ever varies from its ultimate goal of totalitarian control. Islam tells the world that there will be peace on Earth when all the world is Muslim. Communism tells the world that it is Communism’s destiny to rule the world.
The problem with President Trump making trade deals with Muslim countries, is the same problem Nixon/Kissinger had making trade deals with China. President Trump is thinking short term. His trade deals enrich the American side in the short term, and the Communist/Islamic side in the long term. China tried to collapse the United States with the wealth it amassed being America’s trading partne for 50 years––and the Muslim countries will do the same in the long run. Why? Because it is DOCTRINAL! President Trump is making the same mistake today that Nixon/Kissinger made 50 years ago. The difference today is that American technology will be used against us, not just the wealth that Muslim countries will amass by expanding their influence beyond oil.