Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that Boeing had secured a $96bn deal to sell Qatar up to 210 Boeing jets, an agreement that comes as the president portrays the Gulf state’s controversial offer to gift him a $400m luxury aircraft as an opportunity too valuable to refuse.
The Qatar Airways purchase of the Boeing jets – the largest order of widebody planes in the company’s history – formed the centerpiece of economic agreements valued at more than $243bn signed during Trump’s visit to Doha. The White House claims the aviation agreement alone will support 154,000 American jobs annually, though it was unclear how those figures were calculated.
