What Trump’s Family Members Will Do in the White House

Michael Boulos’ father, Massad Boulos, will serve as a senior advisor on Middle Eastern affairs in the Trump administration.

Massad Boulos, a Lebanese-American businessman who owns an automotive company in Nigeria, campaigned with Donald Trump in Michigan ahead of the 2024 election in an effort to reach Arab-American voters.

In a Truth Social post, Donald Trump called Boulos “an accomplished lawyer and a highly respected leader in the business world” and said he was “instrumental in building tremendous new coalitions with the Arab American Community” during the campaign.

While Boulos was widely reported to be the billionaire owner of the Nigerian company Boulos Enterprises, it is owned by a different Boulos family.

Boulos previously told The New York Times that his company, SCOA Nigeria, was worth billions. It’s actually worth about $865,000, the Times reported. Boulos later said that he was referring to his father-in-law’s business ventures — his wife’s father, Michel Zouhair Fadoul, is a wealthy Lebanese businessman who runs The Fadoul Group.

There’s also no proof that Boulos is an “accomplished lawyer” as Donald Trump described him. A Business Insider investigation found that while Boulos listed a law degree on his LinkedIn profile, he does not appear to be licensed to practice law in any of the countries where he’s lived.

“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,” Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt previously told Business Insider in an email, adding that media reports questioning Boulos’ credentials were “fake news.”