Trump Quietly Grants Defence NATO-Style Guarantee To Autocracy That Gave Him A Luxury Jet

<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6838c04f1a000016006b8d43.jpg?cache=yIBDkj1zyw&ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="" data-caption="" data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="Illustration: Kelly Caminero/HuffPost; Photo:Getty Images" /></div><div class="content-list-component text"><p>Just months after <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/28/trump-qatar-air-force-one/">soliciting</a> and receiving a $400 million luxury airliner for himself from Qatar, President Donald Trump has now quietly granted the oil-rich autocracy a NATO-like defence guarantee, promising a US response if it is attacked.</p><p>“The United States shall regard any armed attack on the territory, sovereignty, or critical infrastructure of the State of Qatar as a threat to the peace and security of the United States,” the Trump-signed <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/assuring-the-security-of-the-state-of-qatar/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">order</a> decrees.</p><p>“In the event of such an attack, the United States shall take all lawful and appropriate measures — including diplomatic, economic, and, if necessary, military — to defend the interests of the United States and of the State of Qatar and to restore peace and stability.”</p><p>The order was signed the same day Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during which Netanyahu called the Qatari prime minister to apologise for the September 9 attack on Doha to kill Hamas officials.</p><p>A Qatari national was also killed in the strike. The security guarantee — possibly unique in its promised protection to a country that has been treated as a partner but not a treaty ally — was not mentioned that day and was not publicised at all by the White