Be named “Special Envoy “by Donald Trump to whatever the entrusted missions seem completely incompatible with having its own profile. Especially when your tasks are Middle East, Russia and Ukrainetoday the great forums of the world geopolitics and the government action of Trump himself.
For his frustration, the almighty president has not yet recognized the gift of ubiquity. His shadow reaches everything, but not his presence and where he does not come, he does ‘his man’, something more earthly, equally millionaire and completely relevant. It’s about Steve Witkoffthat returns to the foreground after.
Certainly, the name of Steve(n) Charles Witkoff It does not stop ringing between meetings, photographs and messages. An omnipresence that contrasts with the surprise that caused Trump to give him his’ diplomatic correspondent in capitals such as Moscow, Tel Aviv or kyiv without being a diplomatic.
Born in New York in 1957 and of Jewish origin, at 68 he operates as a “special envoy to the Middle East”, a titanic function to which he and at the Moscow negotiation tables towards a solution in Ukraine.
Acaudalado real estate investor and career lawyer always linked to the ‘brick’, Witkoff He is married to Lauren Jill Rappoport, with whom he had three children, one of whom, Andrew, died from overdose in 2011with just 22 years.
Being a very relevant figure in the American business world, he agreed to work for the Trump administration in the time of the then 45th president of the United States. It was with a secondary role as part of the Great American Economic Revival Industry Groupswork groups to deal with economic consequences and of all kinds of Coronavirus. Five years later, his role is radically different …. Although there are still a lot of money at stake.
Even with the ‘hangover’ of his wide victory in the presidential ones, Trump advanced in November the Witkoff signing for diplomatic cause in a region as critical as the Middle East, which he knew especially well for his business. Recognition of your previous work, to its growing weight within the republican apparatus Between donations and personal closeness between both Many years ago.
He gives the event that on September 15, when the now president suffered a new Murder attempt while playing golf a friend who at that time did not generate any media noise and has ended up being fundamental.
Donald Trump formally greets his friend and special envoy Steve Witkoff in the Oval Office
Before even your appointment, Witkoff participated in negotiations For the Alto El Fuego in Gaza in January 2025, a truce whose merit disputed the protruding governments of Trump and elected. There he could put into practice what his years of real estate business and the right molded in him, a Hard, direct negotiating character. Under his leadership,
Pure Trumpism, go, in the shapes and background. An ideal profile to make it the individual ‘Sent ‘to be seen with Vladimir Putin In all these months of constant focus on the Ukraine War. Without yet a face to face among the presidents of the USA and Russia, it has been the 68 -year -old diplomat who has taken the step of going to Kremlin. They are already Four meetingsalways “cordial” and “useful” in the words of both delegations.
Without hiding, neither in word or in his gestures before him, A certain closeness to Putinwho came to affirm that “I like it” and it is “a great guy”, has been much more belligerent for Ukraine and Volodimir Zelenski. In a Tucker Carlson interview he would arrive at legitimize illegal annexations by Moscow of Ukrainian regions.
A speech in the line of the ‘boss’, as are his constant calls to “peace” where he moves and the most recent warnings to Iran, the other great front, still half develop, of a New heavyweight of Trumpism 2.0.
