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President Donald Trump found himself to be a popular figure among Saudi Arabia's young adults during his four-day Middle Eastern tour.

According to The New York Times, "Citizens of the conservative Islamic kingdom say that Mr. Trump feels familiar to them. His family’s fluid melding of business and politics is the norm in Saudi Arabia — a country in which the Trump Organization has significant business interests and where government officials sit on the boards of listed companies."

The piece continued, "His reliance on relatives and friends to advise him and shape policy is unremarkable in Riyadh. And the conservative rhetoric he has adopted — in particular, his attacks on transgender people and reassertion of traditional gender norms — resonates with many in the kingdom."...

President Donald Trump's grift has gotten so big, he's actually selling off access to the United States itself, columnist Brian Karem claimed in a new column for Salon.

Karem quoted a former Trump official saying, "If you think Trump is holding a yard sale, I would remind everyone that the United States is the yard that is for sale and everything, including security secrets, defensive initiatives, private data, and secrets most people don’t know about are for sale. And no one in this administration is going to call him out," the official added. "The new Trump regime is becoming increasingly insulated while his activities grow more outrageous. Everything he does is pay to play.”

Enter the $400 million luxury Qatari airliner "gifted" to the Defense Department, but which Trump will get for his own use. ...