US President Donald Trump’s Middle East trip will take him back to a region that made huge investments in the US in his first term. Now Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are aiming even higher with their aviation and defense industries to turn commercial deals into political capital.

President Trump teased Tuesday that he will make a “very, very big announcement” that will be “earth-shattering” before he jets off next week on a highly anticipated visit to the Middle East. “We’re going to have a very,

U.S. President Donald Trump is not planning on visiting Israel at the tail end of a trip next week to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, he told reporters at the White House on Tuesday.