May 14 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump, whose family has major business interests in the Gulf countries he is visiting this week, said there was no talk of building a Trump Tower in Syria or golf during his meetings in Saudi Arabia that ended on Wednesday.
Trump met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa during his first stop in Riyadh on Tuesday and Wednesday before heading to Qatar.
The president made a surprise announcement on Tuesday that the U.S. will remove longstanding sanctions on Syria. But he said on Wednesday the possibility of developing a Trump Tower in Damascus, which a Trump supporter has said Sharaa wants, did not come up during their meeting.
“We’ll have to wait a little while until things calm down,” he said, according to a pool report from the Washington Post.
Trump also said he did not know how the deal for a firm backed by the Abu Dhabi government to use the Trump family company’s digital coins for a $2 billion investment in a crypto exchange came about.
