“And Neither the US Nor the UAE Will Ever Be Pleased with You Until…”!!

By Mahjoub Fadel Badr
After reading what Al-Burhan wrote in The Wall Street Journal—in which he clarified the background to our country’s crisis, the course of this war and those who stand behind it, the devastation it has inflicted upon our great people and their proud heritage, and what must be done in the post-war period—it has become all the more evident that the Trump administration will not stand with us, despite the commendable efforts of His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whose explanations Trump claimed he had been unaware of.
In the lines that follow, we will highlight some of the reasons the Trump administration has not condemned the UAE, as set out by Drop Site News, a platform founded in Washington by renowned investigative journalists Ryan Grim, Jeremy Scahill, and Nausicaa Renner. Their comprehensive report was titled:
“Why Won’t Trump Confront the UAE Over Its Support for the Rapid Support Forces Accused of Genocide in Sudan?”
Under Trump, the United States displayed no inclination whatsoever to pressure the principal backer of the RSF—the United Arab Emirates.
According to Forbes, the UAE is the largest source of foreign income for Trump.
Trump’s current financial entanglements with the UAE create powerful personal incentives for him to turn a blind eye to the ongoing genocide, rather than exert pressure on Abu Dhabi.
Trump said quite bluntly—standing alongside UAE Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed during the Sharm El-Sheikh summit in Egypt on 13 October:
“A lot of money… unlimited money.”
A New York Times investigation based on US intelligence identified Mansour bin Zayed as the senior Emirati official overseeing the UAE’s contacts with the RSF, including communications with Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo “Hemedti”, and with networks responsible for transferring funds, supplies and political backing to the militia.
Since 2022, Trump-linked companies have struck at least nine UAE-related deals—five of them licensing agreements with the Trump Organisation, providing continuous revenue streams for the use of the Trump name on golf courses, hotels and residential projects.
These licensing deals require no construction or ownership, only the collection of cash.
New filings estimate that these UAE-linked projects will generate around $500 million in 2025 alone, in addition to at least $50 million in recurring income annually. No other foreign state provides anything comparable to the Trump family.
One of the major Emirati businessmen bankrolling Trump interests is Hussain Sajwani, founder of DAMAC Properties, who built Trump International Golf Club Dubai and the Trump-branded residential complexes in DAMAC Hills. His companies reportedly pay Trump about $6 million per year in licensing and management fees, and Sajwani has pledged to invest $20 billion in Trump-branded ventures in the United States.
Trump family accounts reportedly received $94 million in profits, and an additional $16 million flowed to the Wittkoff family from cryptocurrency deals managed by World Liberty Financial, a company Trump co-founded with his associate Steve Witkoff shortly before the 2024 elections. Its share value soared after Trump’s victory.
The high-frequency crypto trading firm DWF Labs, based in the UAE, purchased $25 million worth of digital assets.
Another $100 million came from Aqua 1, a shadowy Emirati investment entity aligned with UAE government development strategies, according to Forbes.
The Trump-linked American Bitcoin company controlled by Eric Trump stands to benefit significantly from UAE partnerships. Eric’s stake is estimated at over $400 million, with planned expansion involving the UAE’s TAQA and ADQ—both state-owned entities.
The UAE’s ruling elite is now deeply embedded in Trump’s financial ecosystem.
For example, MGX, headed by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed, planned a $2 billion investment in Binance—allowing Trump-linked financial entities to earn tens of millions annually. Days later, Trump granted a presidential pardon to Binance founder Changpeng Zhao.
Documents further point to a new Trump real-estate development at Al Raha Beach in Abu Dhabi, requiring long-term cooperation, and an 80-storey Trump Tower in Dubai, scheduled to begin construction in late 2025, led by long-time partner Ziad El Chaar.
Steve Witkoff, Trump’s business partner, now serves as a presidential envoy—blurring the line between diplomacy and deal-making.
Jared Kushner’s private equity fund is also financed by Gulf states, including the UAE.
The conclusion of the investigation was stark:
The UAE is not just an ordinary foreign partner—it is the financial, political, property and digital-currency backbone underpinning the Trump family’s present and future wealth.
Pressuring the UAE over its arming, financing, and enabling of a genocidal paramilitary force in Sudan would risk billions of dollars, jeopardise ongoing deals, and damage Trump’s most lucrative foreign relationship.
Trump, then, is not the stereotypical cowboy who storms into a quiet town, kicks down the saloon door, guns everyone down, drinks a glass of wine, robs the bank, murders the sheriff, and rides away unharmed with a seven-shot revolver.
Nor is he merely the man who once profited from blood-soaked professional wrestling under the rule:
The more blood, the more money.
But it appears this rule remains firmly lodged in his mind—even as he covets a Nobel Peace Prize.
As for the sons of Zayed, the death of every Sudanese would mean nothing to them; killing a human being is, for them, easier than swatting a fly.
General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan—your conscience is now clear before God and before the people. You have exerted every effort to secure a just peace that would eliminate the Dagalos’ militia and its collaborators once and for all.
But who reads? Who listens?
The Trump administration will never stand with you. Nor will it restrain, for your sake or for ours, a UAE that continues to fuel the flames of war while simultaneously pushing itself into the “Quad” as a so-called neutral mediator.
The only Quad that counts for the Sudanese people, as you know and we know, is simply:
“Bal Bas” (just hit them).

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