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In Abu Dhabi, Trump makes first go to to a mosque as president
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In Abu Dhabi, Trump makes first go to to a mosque as president

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President Trump visits the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque with Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi on Might 15, 2025.

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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, and RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — President Trump visited a mosque on Thursday — his first publicly identified go to to a Muslim home of worship throughout his time in workplace.

The outside of the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Mich., North America’s largest mosque and a gathering place for the majority-Muslim community.

His go to to the United Arab Emirates’ Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque was only one cease on a bigger diplomatic tour by the Center East, the primary main international journey of his second time period.

Trump eliminated his sneakers throughout his go to, as is customary in mosques, and was escorted by Sheikh Khalid bin Mohammed Al Nahyan, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi.

“Isn’t this beautiful? It is so beautiful,” Trump stated. “This is an incredible culture.”

The landmark mosque is understood for its white marble domes and Italian-marbled flooring with coloured flower inlays. It’s a standard cultural vacation spot for vacationers, politicians and celeb guests to Abu Dhabi.

Yousif al-Obaidli, the director general of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, accompanies President Trump on a tour of the mosque in Abu Dhabi on May 15, 2025.

Yousif al-Obaidli, the director basic of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, accompanies President Trump on a tour of the mosque in Abu Dhabi on Might 15, 2025.

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Trump and Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, the UAE’s ruler who greeted Trump upon his arrival within the nation, have shut ties, partially constructed on the UAE’s choice to normalize relations with Israel in a landmark deal throughout Trump’s first time period in workplace.

His go to to the UAE is the third cease on his Center East tour that started with two days of lavish ceremonies in his honor in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. In every nation, Trump was given a ceremonial welcome with Arabian horses and honor guards.

Trump has in depth household enterprise pursuits in all three nations, the place Trump-branded towers and golf programs are being developed. A UAE fund additionally used the Trump household’s cryptocurrency enterprise referred to as World Liberty Monetary to shut a $2 billion funding in crypto change Binance.

President Trump tours the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque with UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and mosque officials Dr. Yousef Al-Obaidi and Ameena Alhammadi, on May 15, 2025.

President Trump excursions the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque with UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and mosque officers Dr. Yousef Al-Obaidi and Ameena Alhammadi, on Might 15, 2025.

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Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, every visited the mosque in 2020, throughout Trump’s first time period whereas they had been each working as administration officers.

Joe Biden went to the mosque on a 2016 journey, when he was vp.

Trump isn’t identified to have visited any mosques in the USA as president. It is attainable he has been to a mosque in his non-public life, although NPR was unable to substantiate that.

In this photo, President Trump is waving with one hand while outside the White House. A row of hedges is in the foreground.

Whereas it’s normal for U.S. presidents to go to church buildings, just a few have made official visits to mosques, in line with the White Home Historic Affiliation. President Dwight Eisenhower opened a Washington, D.C. mosque in 1957, and former President George W. Bush spoke on the identical mosque in 2001 after the 9/11 assaults. In 2016, former President Barack Obama visited a mosque close to Baltimore.

Trump, operating for workplace in 2016, instructed with out proof that hateful concepts come out of mosques and repeatedly instructed they be positioned underneath surveillance. And when he took workplace, Trump made good on a promise to ban journey from some Muslim-majority nations.

However he has since moderated his tone. Within the November election, Arab and Muslim voters helped ship the important thing swing state of Michigan to Trump — partially by casting ballots for third-party candidates. Lots of them expressed disappointment with the Biden-Harris administration’s unwavering assist for Israel’s battle in Gaza, regardless of tens of hundreds of civilian causalities.

“The Muslim community was there for us in November. And while I’m president, I will be there for you,” Trump stated in March at a White Home iftar throughout Ramadan.

President Trump dances as his campaign song "God Bless the U.S.A." plays on stage at the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar on May 15, 2025.

Since his inauguration, although, his already-fraught relationship with Muslim voters seems to have soured. A ceasefire within the Israel-Hamas battle brokered within the closing days of Biden administration has collapsed. Residents of the Gaza strip haven’t been in a position to obtain support for weeks due to an Israeli blockade. Domestically, the administration has detained Muslim residents as a part of his bigger immigration crackdown, arresting a number of Muslim school college students who spoke out in assist of Palestinian rights.

Throughout his go to to the UAE, Trump once more floated the thought — unpopular with Arab leaders — of taking management of the Gaza Strip.

“I’d be proud to have the United States have it, take it, make it a freedom zone, let some good things happen,” Trump stated.

The president is slated to wrap up his Center East journey on Friday.

President Trump visits the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi on May 15, 2025.

President Trump visits the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi on Might 15, 2025.

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