Donald Trump has begun his first major international tour of his second term as president, where he'll visit Gulf states over the next four days for bilateral talks.
A key focus of the trip will be securing significant new investment for the US economy, BBC reports.
Securing new investments in the US from Gulf states, and particularly from their state-backed sovereign wealth funds, will help Trump to signal back home that his "America First" agenda is delivering results.
The push comes amid economic headwinds, as Trump's new import tariffs have significantly disrupted global trade, confidence, and the US economy itself.
Today, Trump is meeting the country's de facto leader Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Later, he will attend a Saudi-US investment forum in Riyadh, featuring CEOs from BlackRock, Palantir, Citigroup, IBM, Qualcomm, Alphabet, and Franklin Templeton, in an effort to draw top Wall Street and Silicon Valley leaders to Saudi Arabia.
Trump is then expected to attend a summit of Gulf leaders in the city on Wednesday, before travelling to Qatar that same day.
He will then end his four-day trip in the United Arab Emirates on Friday.
