{"id":42223,"date":"2025-05-13T03:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=42223"},"modified":"2025-05-13T03:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T08:17:06","slug":"trump-arrives-in-saudi-arabia-on-first-major-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=42223","title":{"rendered":"Trump arrives in Saudi Arabia on first major trip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Trump landed at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, shortly before 10 a.m. local time (3 a.m. ET), beginning his visit to the kingdom and the first planned trip of his second term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman greeted Trump and escorted him to a co\ufb00ee ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">This is the second time Trump has chosen Saudi Arabia&nbsp;for his first planned overseas trip as U.S. president, and bin Salman was also the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/white-house\/trump-speaks-saudi-crown-prince-first-foreign-leader-call-second-term-rcna188940\">first foreign leader to hold a call<\/a>&nbsp;with Trump this term.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Trump&nbsp;will later travel to the Royal Court for an arrival ceremony with bin Salman, an introduction of the delegations, a coffee service in the ceremonial blue room, a lunch with business leaders, bilateral meetings and an agreement signing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The four-day Middle East trip will also take Trump to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/trump-administration\/live-blog\/trump-saudi-arabia-tariffs-live-update-rcna206060\">nbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump landed at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, shortly before 10 a.m. local time (3 a.m. ET), beginning his visit to the kingdom and the first planned trip of his second term. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman greeted Trump and escorted him to a co\ufb00ee ceremony. This is the second time Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":42224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[33255,3240,1230],"class_list":["post-42223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-major-trip","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42225,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42223\/revisions\/42225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}