Did you know that US is now pledged to defend QATAR?

[Bread and Circuses]

Did you know that US is now pledged to defend QATAR?

Trump signed an executive order pledging a U.S. security guarantee to Qatar after Israel’s strike in Doha last month targeting Hamas leaders. The order said the U.S. would treat “any armed attack” on Qatar as “a threat to the peace and security of the United States” and take “all lawful and appropriate measures — including diplomatic, economic and, if necessary, military.” It directed U.S. defense and intelligence leaders to maintain joint contingency planning with Qatar. The order followed a White House-arranged call in which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “expressed his deep regret” for the strike that killed six people. No Arab country has ever received a NATO-style security guarantee from Washington, making the move unprecedented given that U.S. allies like Saudi Arabia have long asked for similar security pledges without success

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. tRump forced the yahoo to make the call from the White House. . . . . nt

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

2. Well, now we see Qatar is getting for bribing TSF with that airplane.

[Hugin]

3. Yeah...

Exactly, Trump gets a flying white elephant and the taxpayers get the bill. As usual with all things Trump.

[Irish_Dem]

4. At the same time he is telling NATO to go to hell.

[newdeal2]

5. Qatar is dumb from trusting that fool

They will be waiting for help every two weeks.

[ret5hd]

6. i dunno Qatar...

look how he regards past defense promises to NATO, Ukraine, etc…and just promises in general.

[TomSlick]

7. Like everything Trump says, it's meaningless.

[calimary]

8. What's in it for him?

With this selfish, devious shithead “in charge”, that’s usually the first thing I want to know.

[Justice matters.]

10. A $400 Million Boing 747 for free.

One the taxpayers will be charged close to $1 Billion to update it to a Air Force 1 Presidential standard.

Pedophile 1 will keep it for his private jet after his term (if he ever leaves... or if he dies, will jr get it?) for free and the taxpayers will have to pay plus interests.

Felon 1 has always been a scammer. Never punished. And that billion-dollar scam takes the cake!

[BadgerMom]

9. Is this a treaty? Pledges are pretty meaningless, especially to a grifter.

After submittal through the State Department, treaties must be ratified by a two-thirds majority of the Senate. I know the Constitution is dismissed frequently these days, but this would be a pretty big dismissal, one that could cause a backlash for an administration whose popularity is shrinking by the day.

[MissouriDem47]

11. Any Country

That believes TACO is as foolish as his supporters.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. MaddowBlog-Trump offers Qatar, which gave him a fancy plane, a NATO-like security guarantee

Without bothering to go through Congress, the president signed an executive order this week vowing to defend Qatar in the event of a foreign attack.

Trump seems to offer protection to Qatar as a favor for donating a 0 million airplane for him. Where quid meets pro quo.

Trump offers Qatar, which gave him a fancy plane, a NATO-like security guarantee www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— @jimrissmiller.bsky.social 2025-10-02T20:25:11.905Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-offers-qatar-gave-fancy-plane-nato-security-guarantee-rcna235175

In his first term, Trump slammed Qatar as a country that he said had been a “funder of terrorism at a very high level.” His perspective on the Middle Eastern country has apparently evolved quite a bit over eight years.

But the president’s shift has gone well beyond rhetorical praise. Politico reported:

The White House published an executive order on Wednesday vowing to defend Qatar in the event of an attack from another country, a remarkable security guarantee for a single country akin to NATO’s Article 5. The order, which President Donald Trump signed Monday, states that the White House will now consider ‘any armed attack’ on Qatar ‘as a threat to the peace and security of the United States

.’

Trump’s new executive order added that the U.S. was prepared to take “all lawful and appropriate measures — including diplomatic, economic and, if necessary, military — to defend the interests of the United States and the State of Qatar.”.....

Politico’s report added, “The unilateral creation of any Article 5-like security guarantees by a president — under the Constitution, treaties must be ratified by the Senate— is highly unusual.” That’s true, though it also understates matters. CNN’s Aaron Blake wrote a good analysis on this:

The Constitution explicitly gives the power over treaties to the Senate, and here’s the president bypassing Congress over something as serious as potentially committing the US military to war. Trump has bypassed Congress on plenty of things that are normally under its purview, mostly notably the tariffs that are currently being decided by the Supreme Court. And he’s mostly been successful thanks to congressional Republicans’ acquiescence. They often don’t want to challenge him. But yet again, Trump is pushing the envelope.

Yes, and he’s doing so in support of a country that just happens to have given him a free luxury jet.

It’s worth emphasizing that Trump’s executive order is not legally binding. Unlike the U.S.’ commitment to NATO, which has been ratified by lawmakers, Trump’s presidential successor would be free to ignore his vow of protection for Qatar.