President Donald Trump speaks at the GCC summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to detail the United States’ foreign policy in the Middle East.

President Donald Trump arrived in Riyadh on Tuesday to a royal-purple-carpet rollout and a motorcade ride ensconced by a calvary of Arabian horses – a daylong kickoff to the first major international trip of his second term.

Before Trump began his visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, his sons Eric and Donald Jr. had already traveled the Middle East extensively in recent weeks. They were drumming up business for The Trump Organization, which they are running in their father’s stead while he’s in the White House.

A previous arms deal agreed during Trump’s first term in 2017 between Saudi Arabia and the also promised a big headline figure. At the time, the White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said the deal included "an immediate $110 billion investment" which would "grow to $350 billion over the next 10 years".

Kirkland & Ellis chair Jon Ballis and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, a Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan of counsel, recently joined President Donald Trump at a lunch in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Donald Trump says he will lift US sanctions on Syria and plans to meet its new president, Ahmad al-Sharaa — the former insurgent who led the overthrow of Bashar Assad last year. Meanwhile, he has concluded record arms deals in Saudi Arabia.

President Donald Trump kicked off his Middle East tour with a visit to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, vowing a continued partnership between Washington and Riyadh.

US President Donald Trump didn’t show up empty-handed on the first international trip of his second term. Joining him in Saudi Arabia were almost three dozen CEOs of America’s biggest companies, including Big Tech giants that signed $600 billion worth of deals.

President Donald Trump signed a $600 billion agreement with Saudi Arabia on Tuesday that includes a major defense contract and substantial investments in artificial intelligence—as U.S. business executives made their own set of deals at a conference in the backdrop of Trump’s visit to Riyadh, the first stop on his four-day tour of the Middle East.