Tuesday marked the start of President Donald Trump’s four-day Middle East visit, and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman welcomed the US president to Saudi Arabia. Similar to his first term, Trump is making an early trip to the kingdom after the crown prince pledged to spend hundreds of billions of dollars in the US.
Members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, which consists of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, will be invited to attend a ceremonial dinner hosted by the crown prince in honour of Trump.
Early in Trump’s second term, Saudi Arabia and other OPEC+ countries have already aided their cause by increasing oil output. In Trump’s opinion, cheap energy is essential to cutting expenses and containing inflation for Americans. The president has also said that Russia’s conflict on Ukraine will finish sooner if oil prices decline. Before travelling to Qatar on Tuesday, Trump will participate in a gathering of Gulf Arab leaders.
The White House has been active in negotiating a truce between India and Pakistan, releasing an American hostage in Gaza, and initiating fresh nuclear negotiations with Iran in the days leading up to the trip.
Following Trump’s unexpected declaration last week that he had agreed to a truce with the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, those actions were taken.
Daniel B. Shapiro, a senior fellow of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative, noted, “White House sources have indicated that the president will focus on ‘deals’.
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