INTRODUCTION
On June 6, 2017, President Donald Trump released three tweets that dealt with a thorny topic in U.S. foreign relations: Qatar’s financial ties to extremist groups. Qatar’s alleged support of regional terrorist networks such as the Muslim Brotherhood have long been problematic to U.S.-Gulf relations. President Trump’s tweets broke with then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s cautious stance just a day prior , encouraging “Gulf countries to mend ties.” 1 By stating that “there can no longer be funding of radical…