The father-in-law of Donald Trump's lesser-known daughter is finding out the hard way that his appointment as an adviser to the president is less important than he apparently believed it would be.
According to a report from Politico, businessman Massad Boulos, father of Michael Boulos who married Tiffany Trump in 2022, was taken into the fold and given a job as senior adviser on the Middle East and Africa policy during the 2024 presidential transition and things have not panned out as expected.
As Politico's Felicia Schwartz and Robbie Gramer are reporting, Boulos "has been given formal titles without clear responsibilities and kept out of key discussions, or been brought into negotiations after much of the work has already been completed."
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The report notes that his tenure got off to a rocky start when the Trump administration basically pulled the plug on his first major endeavor in April where he was denied the use of a government plane as he set out for a trip to Africa.
According to the report, Boulos showed up at Joint Base Andrews expecting to fly out with a small State Department delegation and was left hanging until he was contacted by White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and told the government "wouldn’t pay for the U.S. military to fly him to central Africa." and that "He’d have to trim down his multi-country trip by cutting a stop in Angola, and fly commercial the next day instead."
The report notes that the incident is indicative of the tenuous relationship he has with the White House where some insiders have chafed at his assumption that he is a player in the administration.
According to the Politico report, "Reports that Boulos misrepresented his wealth and the size of his business holdings before entering government also didn’t sit well with some, one of the people said."
Addressing his less-than-impressive status within the second Trump administration, one insider suggested, "The job was more symbolic, but he didn’t know that. Everyone knew it but him.”
The report notes that Boulos declined to comment, but added that White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt stated he is doing an "exceptional job" and cited a deal he worked out between Congolese and Rwandan foreign ministers.
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