| Massad Boulos | |
| Office1: | Senior Advisor to the President on Arab and Middle Eastern Affairs |
| Status1: | Designate |
| President1: | Donald Trump (elect) |
| Party: | Republican[1] |
| Spouse: | Sarah Boulos |
| Children: | 4; including Fares |
| Birth Place: | Kfaraakka, Koura District, Lebanon |
| Birth Date: | [2] |
| Native Name: | مسعد بولس |
| Native Name Lang: | ar |
| Termstart1: | January 20, 2025 |
| Succeeding1: | Position established |
| Citizenship: | Lebanon Nigeria France United States |
| Education: | University of Houston |
| Relations: | Tiffany Trump (daughter-in-law) |
Massad Boulos (ar|مسعد بولس, born 1971) is a Lebanese-American businessman and political associate of Donald Trump; on 1 December Trump announced that he would appoint him as senior advisor on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs.[3] He is the father-in-law of Trump's daughter Tiffany. He supported Trump's presidential campaign in the 2024 United States presidential election, and canvassed for the support of Arab Americans, particularly in Michigan.[4]
Boulos was born to a Greek Orthodox family in Kfaraakka, Koura, Lebanon (his surname meaning the apostle "Paul" in Arabic).[5] He moved to Texas as a teenager, where he obtained a law degree at the University of Houston Law Center.[6] Both his father and grandfather were figures in Lebanese politics and his father-in-law was a key funder of the Free Patriotic Movement.[7]
After completing his education, Boulos returned to his family's business and took over as CEO of SCOA Nigeria, a billion-dollar conglomerate that distributes motor vehicles and equipment throughout West Africa.
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.
Boulos has acted as an intermediary between the Palestinian Authority and its leader, Mahmoud Abbas and Trump.[8]
Boulos has links to Christian politicians and parties in Lebanon, including Suleiman Frangieh and the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) both of which are Christian allies of Hezbollah but maintained talks with opposition parties like the Lebanese Forces.[9] According to Aron Lund, quoting a report in As-Safir, Boulos began his political career as an ally of Michel Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement, and represented it in Nigeria, where Boulos did business.[10] Boulos remained allied to Aoun after he agreed an alliance with Hezbollah. Boulos initially stood for parliament in Koura, but withdrew for another list involving the FPM, Marada (Frangieh's party), and the communists. In 2009, the FPM shortlisted him, but Aoun eventually chose another candidate. By 2018, he was a supporter of Frangieh's Marada. Aron Lund, an analyst at the Century Foundation, writes that his 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."
Boulos holds Lebanese, Nigerian, French and American citizenship. He married Sarah Boulos, who is also a businesswoman that founded the Society of the Performing Arts in Nigeria and is the owner of Cred International Lagos Island franchise.
Together they have four children.[11] In 2022, their son Michael married Tiffany Trump, daughter of Donald Trump. Another son, Fares, is an actor who played a brief non-speaking role in The Crown.