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The résumé of Massad Boulos, Donald Trump’s recent pick as senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs, has reportedly been widely overstated in the media without apparent correction — until now.
Boulos, a Lebanese-American businessman and father-in-law to Trump’s daughter Tiffany, does not appear to be a billionaire, as he’s been previously described, The New York Times reported Thursday.Instead, he’s more accurately described as a “small-time truck salesman” in Nigeria, according to the paper.
Boulos is chief executive of SCOA Nigeria PLC, a company that sells trucks and heavy machinery in Nigeria, and is controlled by Boulos’s father-in-law.
The company made less than $66,000 in profit last year and is valued at $865,000, according to corporate records obtained by the Times. Boulos’s stake in the company, according to the records, is worth less than $2.
Trump has claimed Boulos is an “accomplished lawyer and a highly respected leader in the business world, with extensive experience on the international scene,” and media reports have described Boulos as getting a law degree from the University of Houston. The school told the Times it has no record of that.
Boulos Enterprises, a firm media reports have pointed to in connection with Boulos, actually belongs to a different family with the same last name, an officer there told the paper.
When asked earlier this year if reports that his company is a “multi-billion-dollar enterprise” were accurate, Boulos said he did not like to describe it that way. When pressed, he said his businesses were part of a “big company” that had a “long history” and could be described that way.
In an interview with the Times, Boulos said his father-in-law’s companies, including SCOA, are collectively worth more than $1 billion. He said that he didn’t immediately comment on media reports because “I’ve never really gone into any details like that about the value.”
Boulos said he didn’t comment on discrepancies in the past because he preferred to keep business details private (AP)
The Independent has contacted the Trump transition team and SCOA Nigeria PLC for comment. It was unable to reach Boulos directly for comment.
Boulos, who helped the Trump campaign win over Arab-American voters during the election, isn’t the only member of the new administration who has faced questions about his background.
Trump attorney general pick Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration last month as the former congressman faced allegations he paid for sex and had sex with a minor, which he has always strongly denied.
The administration’s pick for secretary of defense, former Fox News anchor Pete Hegseth, has been accused of rape and alcohol abuse, which he denies.
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Trump has picked Lebanon-born businessman Massad Boulos — whose son Michael Boulos is married to his daughter Tiffany Trump — as a senior adviser on Middle Eastern affairs.
The older Boulos has been described as a "billionaire attorney" in articles. But according to Business Insider's Jack Newsham, "public records and interviews" indicate that he "appears to be neither a billionaire nor a licensed attorney."
President-elect Trump, Newsham reports in an article published on December 12, "apparently inflated Boulos' réesumé."
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"Business Insider found no proof of Boulos' supposed billions," according to Newsham. "And while he may have attended law school, he hasn't passed a bar exam and can't practice law."
Newsham adds that Massad Boulos "doesn't run" the company Boulos Enterprises, according to "several former employees and its actual boss, Boulos Boulos."
"A due-diligence report for Boulos Enterprises Ltd. created by Moody's Orbis database doesn't mention Massad Boulos," Newsham reports. "Archived copies of the Boulos Group website from 2016 and 2018 didn't mention him, either. And Elephant Africa Holding, a Mauritius company created by the Boulos Group to hold its paper businesses, also doesn't mention Massad in its corporate filings."
Newsham notes that Massad Boulos, whose son met Tiffany Trump in Greece in 2018, has been "credited in news stories with playing a key role in Donald Trump's 2024 electoral victory, helping peel Arab-American voters away from Democrats in battlegrounds like Michigan."
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Massad Fares Boulos (Arabic: مسعد بولس; born 1971)[3] is a Lebanese-born American businessman and a senior advisor to the president of the United States.[4] He is the father of Michael Boulos and the father-in-law of Trump's daughter Tiffany. He supported Trump's successful presidential campaign in the 2024 presidential election, and campaigned for Trump in Arab American communities, particularly in Michigan.[4][5]
Boulos worked as the CEO of SCOA Nigeria PLC,[6][7] a trucking and heavy machinery dealership company and subsidiary of the Fadoul Groupe in Nigeria. He rose to prominence in 2018 when his son began to date Tiffany Trump. While he was originally announced in December 2024 as an Arab and Middle Eastern Affairs advisor,[6][8] in April 2025, Boulos was also appointed as Senior Advisor for Africa.[9][10]
Early life
Boulos was born to Fares and Marie-Therese in Kfaraakka, Koura, Lebanon.[11][12] He is the eldest of four siblings, Vivian, Philip and Michel. His father Fares Boulos served as mayor of Kfaraakka from 1998 to 2010.[13] They are Lebanese Greek Orthodox Christian (Boulos' surname meaning the apostle "Paul" in Arabic).
He moved to Texas as a teenager.[6] He graduated in 1993 from University of Houston–Downtown with a bachelor of business administration degree.[6][8] Boulos also holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University.[14] He was described by President Donald Trump as "an accomplished lawyer", however, he applied to take the bar exam in Texas in 1996 but there is no evidence of his admission or that he actively worked as a lawyer in the United States or abroad.[6][8]
Career
In business
After completing his education, Boulos moved to Nigeria and became the CEO of SCOA Nigeria PLC.[6][7] SCOA is a trucking and heavy machinery dealership that operates as part of the Fadoul Groupe, a business conglomerate based in West Africa.[15]
After Trump's announcement that he would appoint Boulos as a presidential advisor (see § US politics), he was subject to scrutiny by some media outlets regarding his business record and public profile.[16]
Media outlets initially described SCOA as a "multi-billion dollar conglomerate".[17][18] A NYT article asserted discrepancies between this description and its documented business background.[16] As reported by the NYT, the company' shares trade for about two Nigerian naira, roughly a tenth of a US cent, a penny stock with a market capitalization worth about $865,000 as of 2024.[6][8] Boulos's holds a minority share of $1.53 according to the company's latest annual report.[6][8] When asked to confirm the multibillion-dollar valuation of his company, he said that describing it as "multibillion dollar" company was accurate, that "it's a big company" and that he referred to the Fadoul Groupe's companies, collectively worth more than $1 billion. He further added that "I've never gone into any details like that about the value".[6]
Several reports misidentified Massad Boulos as the owner of Boulos Enterprises[19][20] owned by another family of the same name.[6][8][21] He confirmed to the NYT that he had no relationship with Boulos Enterprises, and that he did not correct public reports because he made a practice of not commenting on his businesses.[6]
Following media scrutiny of Boulos' business track record, the Trump-Vance Transition Team and Boulos himself rebuked the accusations, with spokesperson Karoline Leavitt calling the stories "fake news". The Transition Team issued a statement answering to the article published by the Business Insider declaring that: "The truth is Mr. Boulos is a highly respected businessman who has proudly served as the CEO of some of his family's group of companies based in West Africa for more than 27 years and his family has employed tens of thousands of people around the globe".[22] Several Nigerian media outlets published an op-ed penned by Magnus Onyibe, credited as a non-executive independent director at SCOA, echoing Leavitt's press release and describing the company's achievements in Nigeria and West Africa.[23][24][25][26]
Lebanese politics
Both his father and grandfather were known figures in Lebanese politics, as his great uncle, Massad, served in Parliament[27] and his father, Fares, served as Mayor of Kfarkaara.[28] Boulos is acquainted with Christian politicians and parties in Lebanon from Suleiman Frangieh of the Marada Movement, considered aligned with Hezbollah, to the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) and anti-Hezbollah opposition parties like the Lebanese Forces.[29][30] However, he has mentioned in interviews that he is not affiliated with any party in Lebanon and that he is acquainted with most Lebanese Christian leaders.[31]
According to Century Foundation's analyst Aron Lund, quoting a report in As-Safir, Boulos was a supporter of Michel Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement and represented it in Nigeria, where his father-in-law did business and funded the party's activities.[11][29] When asked about his relation with the FPM, which elected Michel Aoun as president with support from Hezbollah,[11] Boulos said that "as Lebanese Christians, most of us supported President Aoun's calls for Lebanese sovereignty from the late 1980's to the early 2000's (including the United States Congress and administrations); in fact in 2005, he enjoyed the support of close to 80% of Lebanese Christians as well as Muslims."[31] In October 2024, the Free Patriotic Movement declared they were no longer bound by their previous alliance.[32]
AP reported[33] that Boulos initially stood for parliament in Koura, but withdrew for another list involving the FPM, Marada and the communists.[11] In 2009, the FPM shortlisted him, but Aoun eventually chose another candidate.[11] By 2018, he again pledged his support to Marada.[11] He subsequently denied ever running for Parliament.[31]
Lund writes that Boulos' career "does not exactly indicate a firm commitment to either side in Lebanese or regional politics", and that his appointment suggests that Trump's Middle East policy "will often be more readily understood in light of the personalities orbiting Mar-a-Lago [a Trump-owned resort] than through an ideological prism or in terms of U.S. national interest."[11] He also mentioned that Boulos' connections could be highly useful "if Trump were to lean the other way and pursue his isolationist instincts, aiming to deescalate ongoing wars, deconflict with Iran, and scale down the U.S. presence in the region."[11] Analyst Mitchell Plitnick saw Boulos as "a businessman and political opportunist" but that his nomination signaled the administration's willingness to engage with the Palestinians.[34]
US politics
Boulos has been involved in Republican politics for decades,[35] and worked as a volunteer during George W. Bush's 1994 campaign for governor of Texas.[36] During the 2024 US presidential elections, Boulos campaigned for Trump in Muslim and Arab communities with Bishara Bahbah, who founded Arabs for Trump, and Richard Grenell. He sought to portray Trump as supportive of "global peace", according to Bahbah.[1] In an interview with The Times, he said that "There are 3.5 million Arab Americans, which is a huge number, and they just want their voices to be heard. And Trump has been listening".[37] Despite that, there was criticism over his outreach during some meetings, as some attendees criticized Trump's policies regarding Jerusalem.[37]
Yassin K. Fawaz, a political analyst, credits Boulos as bridging "the gap between Trump's campaign and these communities, ensuring that their concerns were not only heard but acted upon".[38]
Role as Senior Advisor
Boulos and Elon Musk were named Senior Advisor to Donald Trump in 2025. In this role, Boulos has acted as an intermediary between the Palestinian Authority and its leader, Mahmoud Abbas and Trump.[39]
Boulos was involved in the 2024 Israel-Lebanon ceasefire agreement. While he initially said that the Lebanese Army was fulfilling his duty in "an acceptable manner" regarding its role in the ceasefire,[40] he subsequently explained during an interview for Le Point that "there was an initial misunderstanding, particularly in Lebanon, where it was believed that the ceasefire agreement applied only to the area south of the Litani River".[41] He further clarified his position and reaffirmed the requirement that Hezbollah should disarm applies to the whole of Lebanon, not just areas south of the Litani river.[42][43]
The New Arab quotes Boulos as saying that "the text is very clear in implementing United Nations resolutions, whether Resolution 1701 or 1559".[44] In an interview with MTV News, he asserted that the question of Iranian funding for armed groups, including Hezbollah, was an integral part of the ceasefire agreement.[45]
During negotiations for the current Lebanese government, Boulos was responsible for conveying the message that Hezbollah-allied Amal Movement, should play a less prominent role in the new government.[43]
In a meeting with Yossi Dagan, head of the Samaria Regional Council and activist settler, Boulos said that "in Israel, in Lebanon, and throughout the region, we want and hope for peace, and with God's grace, we will achieve it soon”.[40] His meeting and declarations were criticized by Palestinian advocates as promoting the "normalization" of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. He also attended an Iftar dinner hosted by the Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter. An article published by The Times of Israel noted the absence of representatives from countries that signed the Abraham Accords, as a result of the cool down in public ties between Israel and the signatory countries caused by the 2023 Gaza War.[46]
In March 2025, Semafor reported that Massad Boulos would be appointed Special Envoy for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Great Lakes Region, reportedly due to American interest in securing a minerals deal.[47] Despite the lack of official confirmation, the move was praised by Kenyan President William Ruto, who said that the nomination showed a commitment to peace and stability in Africa.[48][49]
He was later confirmed as Senior Advisor for Africa, making him the State Department's most senior official to work in the continent. His appointment came after the White House failed three times to fill the position.[50] His appointment was described as part of a pivot in American foreign policy, boosting relations with Africa to curb growing Chinese and Russian influence.[51][52]
His first diplomatic tour saw him travelling to DRC Congo, Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda, accompanied by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Corina Sanders.[53] Boulos subsequently announced that President Felix Tshisekedi agreed upon a path forward to develop a minerals agreement, allowing private U.S. firms to work in the country[54] and that the United States would use "all diplomatic and economic tools" to advance peace in the region.[55] Three Americans who were imprisoned due to their participation in a failed coup attempt were granted presidential clemency and transferred to fulfill their sentences in the United States, in what was described as a gesture of diplomatic goodwill.[56][57]
Boulos also discussed peace efforts with President Paul Kagame, reiterating the American position that Rwanda should withdraw all troops from Congo and to cease all military support for M23 rebels.[58] Rwandan authorities deny supporting the M23.[59] After a Qatar-brokered truce between the DRC and M23,[60] Boulos and Secretary of State Marco Rubio hosted the Congolese and Rwandan foreign ministers in Washington D.C.,[61][62] where they agreed to a “declaration of principles” for ending the war.[63][64]
He informally met President Bola Tinubu in Paris,[65] and reportedly discussed bilateral relations and investments in Nigeria.[51]
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Amid reports of the U.S. government planning to relocate Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya, Boulos met Egypt's intelligence chief, Major Hassan Rashad[67] and President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to discuss the ongoing unrest and deterioration of the humanitary situation in Libya. According to a report on Al-Araby, the United States is pursuing a policy that includes Egypt as a regional partner in achieving stability in Africa, particularly regarding Libya and Sudan.[68]}:
Personal life
Boulos holds Lebanese, French and American citizenship.[1]
He married Sarah Fadoul Boulos,[8] who was born in Burkina Faso.[69] Circa 1986, she lived in Houston, Texas, and graduated in biology at Houston Baptist University in 1994.[70][71] In 1996, the couple moved to Lagos, Nigeria[69] and Sarah worked at SCOA Nigeria as the Director of Trading and Logistics.[71]
She is a philanthropist, entrepreneur[71] and dance coach[72] who in 2005 founded the Society for the Performing Arts in Nigeria (SPAN) in a small studio in her garage, gradually increasing its profile in Nigerian society.[73][69][70] Sarah mentions that SPAN has reached more than 10,000 youth since its inception.[74] More recently, she has been a franchisee of Creative Education International (CrEd) Lagos Island. As of 2020 she worked overseeing the imports[74] of her business,[75][71] La Pointe Delicatessen in Victoria Island, Lagos.[70]
Sarah and Massad are devout Christians.[76] Together they have four children, Michael, Fares, Oriane and Sophie.[70][72][77] In 2022, their son Michael married Tiffany Trump, daughter of Donald Trump.[11] Fares is an actor who played a brief non-speaking role in The Crown.[12]
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Someone recently added Boris Epshteyn as a Senior Advisor working alongside Boulos - there is no official announcement (unlike Boulos and Musk). He indeed worked as Senior Advisor to his campaign but was never nominated as a Senior Advisor for the current administration - see here , here and quotes below:
"Epshteyn himself was indicted on charges in Arizona related to alleged efforts by Trump allies to subvert that election; he has pleaded not guilty. His titles are senior counsel and senior advisor to Trump, but even before the review he was not expected to take a role in the incoming administration."
"The firms were reportedly wary of negotiating with Epshteyn since he doesn’t work for the government—especially since the White House would need to sign off on any agreements."
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05/04/2025
Massad Boulos arrived at Joint Base Andrews in early April as the Trump administration’s newest official on Africa policy and waited to fly out for his inaugural trip to the continent. And waited. And waited.
After several hours, he and his small State Department delegation were told their flight out wasn’t happening; the government wouldn’t pay for the U.S. military to fly him to central Africa. President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, called Boulos directly to relay that he would not have access to a government plane. He’d have to trim down his multi-country trip by cutting a stop in Angola, and fly commercial the next day instead.
Boulos, the father-in-law of Tiffany Trump, had telegraphed during the transition that he would hold significant sway on the Trump administration’s foreign policy. But the plane incident, described by three people familiar with the episode, shows how he struggled from the start to attain much influence, even as he has found some unexpected success along the way.
Boulos’ mixed reputation also illustrates how power works in Trump’s inner circle. While family ties are valuable to the president, that appears to be true only to a point.
POLITICO spoke to 10 people familiar with Boulos’ interactions, all of whom were granted anonymity to speak freely about internal administration workings. They described a man who has been given formal titles without clear responsibilities and kept out of key discussions, or been brought into negotiations after much of the work has already been completed. Four of them said the White House and State Department have been frustrated by his freelancing efforts, and a number of cumulative incidents have soured Boulos’ relationships across parts of the administration.
Since joining Trump’s team, Boulos has also taken actions that overstate his responsibilities in the administration, according to the people POLITICO interviewed.
He has handed out business cards that inflate his job title, declined to notify the State Department in advance about sensitive meetings and repeatedly implied his remit is broader than it is.
Reports that Boulos misrepresented his wealth and the size of his business holdings before entering government also didn’t sit well with some, one of the people said.
Trump named Boulos as a senior adviser on the Middle East during the transition last year and he began taking informal meetings with Lebanese officials and other diplomats. But some in the administration say he was overstepping.
“The job was more symbolic, but he didn’t know that,” said an administration official. “Everyone knew it but him.”
While Boulos was appointed as Africa adviser in early April, he continues to hold the title of senior adviser of Arab and Middle Eastern affairs. The administration official and another person familiar with the situation said he is not meant to actively work on Middle East issues.
Boulos declined to comment, but administration spokespeople and other defenders praised his role in Trump’s Africa policy.
National Security Council spokesperson James Hewitt said Boulos “is a valuable member of the president’s foreign policy team and has already made great progress in strengthening U.S. ties with African nations.”
In the case of the April trip, a senior government official confirmed that Boulos and his traveling party did wait at Andrews and for technical reasons made changes to the trip and took commercial flights. They traveled to Congo, Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda on that trip and Boulos is expected to travel to Angola and other places in the Great Lakes region as soon as May, the official said.
Boulos is currently Trump’s top Africa adviser by default. The administration has yet to name its top Africa official, the assistant secretary of state, at the State Department or on the NSC. A State Department press release on Boulos’ appointment offered scant details about his responsibilities in the role.
The arrangement does not give Boulos the wide berth that other Trump allies, who have established roles beyond traditional power hierarchies, have in government.
“He’s not Ric Grenell, he’s not Steve Witkoff,” said a GOP foreign policy operative, referencing two close Trump confidantes and special envoys with broad global remits who report directly to Trump. Boulos, by contrast, sits in an office within the Africa bureau of the State Department and operates under the authority of senior diplomats.
He has had some foreign policy wins, including liaising with African heads of state and pushing to clinch the first steps in a deal between the Congo and Rwanda to quell violence in eastern Congo.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday praised Boulos during a Cabinet meeting in the White House and said he did “something really great last week” by helping to bring about the signing of the deal with the Congolese and Rwandan foreign ministers. His role was also confirmed by four of the people POLITICO spoke to — all of whom were familiar with the U.S. efforts to secure the deal.
“Mr. Boulos is doing an exceptional job, as evidenced by the deal … between the DRC and Rwanda,” White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.
But even when Boulos has success on Africa policy, he does so largely out of the limelight and without the profile that other Trump envoys receive. Witkoff, for example, speaks frequently on behalf of the president and is received as the most senior member in traveling delegations, such as when he met last month with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris.
Boulos was weakened by a spate of early media interviews asserting himself as a dominant voice on Lebanon policy, irking Trump’s inner circle in the process, as well as a New York Times story that exposed he had for years misled the public about the source of his wealth. Two of the people familiar with Boulos’ interactions said he had developed an unfavorable reputation for talking too much.
His move away from Middle East work stemmed also from concerns within the administration about some of his political and social connections in the region.
Boulos is originally from northern Lebanon and immigrated to the United States as a teenager. His son Michael is married to Tiffany Trump and they are expecting their first child this year.
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Questions about Boulos’ political associations in Lebanon also concerned some in the administration. Boulos has said he is not affiliated with any political party in Lebanon but has close ties across Lebanon’s Christian political class, including with Hezbollah’s preferred candidate for president earlier this year, Suleiman Frangieh.
He has continued to try to influence Middle East policy, and has spoken about Lebanon and Syria in interviews with Arab media. His efforts to go beyond his brief have caused confusion in the Middle East, officials said.
“He publicly speaks on issues and topics he is not responsible for or involved in, causing confusion in the region. It’s been an issue,” the administration official said.
The senior government official argued that Boulos still does some work on the Middle East from his office in the Africa affairs bureau and coordinates with the secretary of State and the president.
Boulos hands out a business card — viewed by POLITICO — that lists his State Department email and phone numbers and describes him only as “senior advisor to the president” — significantly inflating his official title and adding to confusion about what he is responsible for.
Some in the White House and State Department have been unhappy with times that he took initiative, seeing it as counterproductive freelancing.
Boulos gave an interview in Arabic where he questioned the U.S. recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara territory — throwing into doubt a key feature of U.S. negotiations with Morocco during the first Trump administration to get Rabat to formally start diplomatic ties with Israel. His interview infuriated the Moroccan government, according to a person who was informed of Morocco’s reaction to the episode. Afterward, he issued a post on X about Rubio “unequivocally reaffirming U.S. recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara.”
Boulos also held a private meeting with Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu during his recent visit to Paris without notifying the State Department in advance, which caught the U.S. embassies in both France and Nigeria off guard when they learned about the meeting in the media, two people briefed on the meeting said.
The senior government officials said the meeting was coordinated with the State Department and noted that the U.S. embassy in Abuja posted about the meeting afterward as proof that the mission was aware of it.
Boulos sells trucks and heavy machinery in Nigeria for a company his father-in-law controls.
Boulos has told people that his current job is a temporary one that he will hold for six months, one State Department official said. The senior government official denied that Boulos has told colleagues this.
Still, despite the missteps, some U.S. officials have welcomed Boulos’ eagerness to dive into tough foreign policy issues that rarely get attention in Washington. That includes his work to end the fighting in eastern Congo and lobbying to keep a Biden-era infrastructure project meant to counter China’s infrastructure and rare earth minerals access in central Africa.
“In only a few short weeks of serving as the president’s senior adviser for Africa, Mr. Boulos has done tremendous work to advance our America First diplomacy throughout the continent,” the State Department said in a statement.
Boulos also helped finalize a deal to secure the repatriation of three Americans from the Congo, where they were facing death sentences for their purported role in a botched coup attempt, according to three of the people, though all added that the negotiations over their release were ongoing before Boulos entered the picture.
Boulos has met with over a dozen senior officials, including ministers and heads of state such as Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwandan President Paul Kagame. That has been welcomed by those who work in Africa policy who were disappointed when Rubio’s planned trip to the continent was cancelled earlier this month.
“He’s done what others haven’t been doing. But also because there’s no one else in to do it,” said a person briefed on Boulos’ actions on Africa policy. “He’s a nice person with a good demeanor and Lord knows the administration needs someone, anyone in the field to work on Africa policy since the bench is so shallow.”
Nahal Toosi contributed to this report.
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