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Posted on 06/17/2026 9:19:38 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
To understand Masaad Boulos, it helps first to understand what he is not.
He is not Tom Barrack — the private equity executive and longtime Trump associate whose enthusiasm for personal relationships with Arab Gulf leaders eventually produced a federal indictment for acting as an unregistered foreign agent. And he is most certainly not Senator Lindsey Graham, whose periodic eruptions about Lebanon’s army commander carry the diplomatic precision of a foghorn: loud enough to be heard everywhere, useful precisely nowhere.
Boulos is none of these things. He is something considerably rarer in Washington’s ecosystem — a man who understands that in diplomacy, as in surgery, the difference between healing and harm is often not what you do, but how, and whether, you are seen doing it.
His entry into the Trump orbit is, of course, inseparable from family. His son Michael is married to Tiffany Trump, making Masaad Boulos, in the peculiar geometry of the Trump world, something between a family patriarch and a trusted confidant of the president himself. That proximity could easily have become a liability — Instead, Boulos appears to have treated that proximity as something to be handled carefully, even reverently, the way a craftsman handles a tool of exceptional but easily misused power. He has not leveraged the family connection for visibility. He has used it, apparently, for access — and then deployed that access with notable discretion.
This is not a common instinct in Washington, where access is almost invariably converted into performance.
Masaad Boulos was born into a Lebanese Greek Orthodox Christian family — a community whose historical experience is, in itself, a masterclass in the arts of survival, negotiation, and strategic ambiguity...
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He left Lebanon and built his business and raised his family in Nigeria. He currently serves as senior envoy to Africa, overseeing diplomatic hot spots like the Congo and Sudan.
He also serves an advisor on Middle East affairs.
Fascinating! Thanks for posting.
is the Marla Maples on the left of the bottom picture?
You’re welcome. 🙂
Yes that is Marla Maples and the Boulos family. 🌴
It says “special corresponent” wrote it, reads like it is his son.
Sorry - that is not serious.
Hezbollah - a for hire terrorist organization, which is sponsored by the ultra-violent IRGC dictatorship in Iran, and which controls at least one square mile of down town Beirut - is not something a normal diplomat would be quiet about.
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