2025-05-13
9 分钟Thank you. From The New York Times, it's The Headlines.
I'm Traci Mumford.
Today's Tuesday, May 13th.
Here's what we're covering.
Early this morning,
President Trump received a royal welcome in Saudi Arabia
as he touched down for the first stop on his four-day tour of the Middle East.
For the last 30 minutes of the flight, Air Force One was escorted by Saudi fighter jets,
and a purple carpet was rolled out on the tarmac in Riyadh,
where Trump was welcomed by the Saudi crown prince.
Trump, along with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,
will attend a U.S.-Saudi investment conference and a state dinner before continuing on to Qatar and the UAE.
His trip comes at a time when there is a lot of important foreign policy measures at play in the region with different negotiations going on to try to end the war in Gaza.
There's talks about a new Iranian nuclear deal.
But those aren't really the point of this trip.
This trip is about one thing, and that is economic deals.
My colleague, White House correspondent Luke Broadwater, is in Riyadh.
Donald Trump has told his advisers he wants to bring home pledges of $1 trillion in deals.
We don't know exactly what they all will be yet,
but we strongly suspect many of them have already been announced and will be sort of repackaged as new announcements for this trip so that the president can come home with a large dollar amount that he can sort of boast about.