Three days in the Middle East have put President Trump’s bromance diplomacy on full display. “I like you too much,” Trump told Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, later placing his hand on his heart as the two men bid farewell on the airport tarmac.

President Trump is wrapping a whirlwind trip to the Middle East — complete with a flurry of proposed investment deals, controversial gifts and a major shift in US-Syria policy. On today’s Big Take podcast,

Saudi royalty and American billionaires were in the front row for a speech in Riyadh where President Donald Trump condemned what he called past U.S. interference in the wealthy Gulf states.

Trump is again diverging from U.S. presidential habit by choosing the Middle East, not Canada or Mexico, for the first foreign trip of his second term. He's hoping to do deals with three of the region's wealthiest countries.

Trump did spend some of last weekend downplaying legal and ethics concerns regarding reports Qatar is considering donating a $400 million Boeing plane.

As President Trump meets with Middle East leaders, his family's business dealings in the region are drawing scrutiny. Nancy Cordes reports. Then, Margaret Brennan looks at the rise of Syria's new leader who formerly fought American forces as an Islamist rebel in Iraq.

By Gram Slattery, Andrew Mills, Federico Maccioni and Yousef Saba ABU DHABI (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Thursday pledged to strengthen U.S. ties to the United Arab Emirates on a visit to the Gulf state that is expected to deepen cooperation on artificial intelligence.

US President Donald Trump is in Qatar and even before he reached Doha, all eyes were glued to his visit as reports floated about a grand gift of a $400 million jet that he would recieve from the Qatari royal family. Amid ethical and legal cocerns about the ...