President Donald Trump‘s first foreign trip of his second term will be to Saudia Arabia, according to a report.
Axios reported on Sunday that Trump will head to the Gulf nation sometime in mid-May, with planning for the visit still underway. A White House official said the visit will focus on “discussing foreign investments, strengthening relationships with Gulf nations and ending conflict in the Middle East.”
The Saudis, however, want the visit to take place only after a ceasefire is reached between Russia and Ukraine, an unnamed source indicated. The country has played host to the ceasefire talks that have still yet to yield a peace deal.
The tentative plan for the foreign visit comes after an earlier date that was floated, April 28, had already been postponed.
The news largely follows a timeline Trump alluded to earlier this month when he said he would likely visit Saudia Arabia “over the next month and a half.” Saudi Arabia was also the first country Trump visited in his first term.
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Trump has touted the investments the Gulf nation pledged to make in the United States at the beginning of this year. In late January, Saudi Arabia announced a $600 billion investment into the U.S. over the next four years. In response, Trump said he would be pushing Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman to “round it out to around $1 trillion.”
Earlier this month, Trump said Saudi Arabia “agreed to do that. So I am gonna be going there.”
