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(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump began the archetypal limb of his four-day Middle East trip Tuesday with a sojourn to leaders successful Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Trump's gathering with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was punctuated by American efforts to extremity the warfare successful Gaza, negotiate commercialized deals, support lipid prices and dismantle Iran's atomic program.
Flanked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Trump indicated the absorption for his archetypal large overseas travel was business.
The impermanent database for Tuesday's luncheon successful Saudi Arabia featured immoderate of the world's biggest concern figures, including:
- Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX
- Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock
- Kelly Ortberg, president and CEO of Boeing
- Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon
- Ruth Porat, president and CIO of Google
The White House hopes to instrumentality much than $1 trillion worthy of investments successful the United States, a White House authoritative told NewsNation.
After Tuesday's lunch, Trump is expected to enactment successful a Saudi-U.S. concern forum earlier attending a Saudi authorities dinner.
Talks are scheduled with immoderate of the world's richest countries this week, including Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
Qatari sources told NewsNation the extremity for their halt is $200 cardinal successful concern deals. Ethical concerns person arisen aft the state offered Trump a escaped Air Force One replacement — a Boeing 747 worthy $400 million.
“I would ne'er beryllium 1 to crook down that benignant of an offer,” Trump told reporters Monday. “I could beryllium a anserine idiosyncratic and say, ‘No, we don’t privation a free, precise costly airplane.’”
During the trip, Trump has floated the thought of stepping distant from planned stops to visit Turkey arsenic it hosts Ukraine-Russia talks connected Thursday.
“I was reasoning astir flying over. I don’t cognize wherever I americium going to beryllium connected Thursday,” Trump said Monday. “I’ve got truthful galore meetings. … There’s a anticipation there, I guess, if I deliberation things tin happen.”
The Kremlin has not said whether Russian President Vladimir Putin volition question to Turkey.
