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    Trump Will Probably Have a Great Trip to Saudi Arabia

    And he will leave wishing he could spend more time in such places where people afford him more respect than the Washington press corps.
    by Andrew Exum May 19, 2017 4 minutes
    Source: Faisal Al Nasser / Reuters

    The past four U.S. presidents, when making their first trips abroad, traveled to either Canada or Mexico. Donald Trump, by contrast, will go to Saudi Arabia—to meet not only with the Saudi leadership but with other Gulf and Arab leaders.

    This is a move by the anti-Obama. The former president’s relations with America’s traditional regional partners were strained, so what better way to advertise that you’re not the former president than to embrace them whole-heartedly—despite some of the pointed things you yourself said about them on the campaign trail.

    , the Gulf Arabs are still excited about Donald Trump, even as the president’s position among his own people following a weeklong artillery barrage of bombshells on everything from the president’s firing of the FBI director

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