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Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan at the White House in 2025.

UAE national security adviser hosted by Trump and chair of MGX, the Abu Dhabi investor in the USD1-settled Binance transaction.

Relationship to Trumpforeign official hosted by Trump

Timeline

  1. Tahnoon-backed company reportedly buys 49% of WLF49% WLF stake reportedly acquired for $500 million on January 16, 2025Trump-hosted UAE official backing WLF equity purchaser · reported · 3 sources
    1. paymentReported price for 49% WLF stake$500 million
      Paid by / source
      Tahnoon-backed UAE company
      Received by
      World Liberty Financial equity sellers
      realized · 2025-01-16 · observedRead source record
      Calculation detailsPopulation Reported purchase price for a 49% equity stake in World Liberty Financial by a Tahnoon-backed companyPeriod 2025-01-16 to 2025-01-16Basis Use the $500 million price and 49% stake reported by Public Citizen from the Wall Street Journal investigation and corroborated by AP's description of a nearly half stake.Limits The reviewed sources did not publish the underlying agreement, capitalization table, payment schedule, or all recipient allocations; this is reported equity value, not firm revenue or personal income.
    2. paymentReported UAE-linked payment to Trump family entities$187 million
      Paid by / source
      Tahnoon-backed UAE company
      Received by
      Trump family entities
      realized · 2025-01-16 · observedRead source record
      Calculation detailsPopulation Portion of the Tahnoon-backed WLF equity purchase reportedly routed to Trump family entitiesPeriod 2025-01-16 to 2025-01-16Basis Use Public Citizen's attributed transaction tracing for the $187 million entity-level payment as a component of the $500 million equity price. The component is not added to the $500 million total.Limits The underlying agreement and complete recipient ledger were not available in the reviewed sources; no individual allocation, personal Trump income, or causal policy exchange is inferred.
  2. Trump hosts UAE security adviser Sheikh TahnoonHosted by Trump at the White House on March 18, 2025foreign official hosted by Trump · documented · 1 source
  3. Tahnoon-chaired MGX selects USD1 for the Binance investmentTahnoon-chaired MGX selected USD1 for the $2 billion Binance investmentTrump-hosted MGX chair in USD1 transaction · reported · 5 sources
    1. investmentTahnoon-chaired MGX investment settled through USD1$2 billion
      Reported investor / source
      MGX
      Reported investment recipient
      Binance
      reported · 2025-05-01 · observedRead source record
      Calculation detailsPopulation MGX's investment in Binance settled using World Liberty Financial's USD1 stablecoin while Sheikh Tahnoon chaired MGXPeriod 2025-05-01 to 2025-05-01Basis Use the investment face value reported for the MGX-Binance transaction settled with USD1.Limits No proceeds are assigned to Sheikh Tahnoon personally. This duplicates the same MGX-Binance transaction on the Zach Witkoff, batch-200, and Changpeng Zhao records and must not be added to them.
Roles and relationships

Status

  1. Trump-hosted foreign officialrelationship / 2025-03-181 source · Source

Relationships

  1. Donald J. Trump

    Relationship to Trumpforeign official hosted by Trump

    politicalFull record · 1 source
  2. Donald J. Trump

    Trump-hosted MGX chair in USD1 transaction

    businesspoliticalFull record · 5 sources
  3. Donald J. Trump

    Trump-hosted UAE official backing WLF equity purchaser

    businesspoliticalFull record · 3 sources
Source: Daniel Torok / The White House · Rights/use: Public domain, United States federal government work · Modified: cropped and resized