President Donald Trump speaks at the GCC summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to detail the United States’ foreign policy in the Middle East.

Kirkland & Ellis chair Jon Ballis and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, a Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan of counsel, recently joined President Donald Trump at a lunch in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

President Donald Trump arrived in Riyadh on Tuesday to a royal-purple-carpet rollout and a motorcade ride ensconced by a calvary of Arabian horses – a daylong kickoff to the first major international trip of his second term.

Before Trump began his visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, his sons Eric and Donald Jr. had already traveled the Middle East extensively in recent weeks. They were drumming up business for The Trump Organization, which they are running in their father’s stead while he’s in the White House.

Donald Trump says he will lift US sanctions on Syria and plans to meet its new president, Ahmad al-Sharaa — the former insurgent who led the overthrow of Bashar Assad last year. Meanwhile, he has concluded record arms deals in Saudi Arabia.

President Donald Trump kicked off his Middle East tour with a visit to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, vowing a continued partnership between Washington and Riyadh.

President Trump travels this week to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. One goal: getting these countries to agree to invest billions in the U.S.

President Donald Trump signed a $600 billion agreement with Saudi Arabia on Tuesday that includes a major defense contract and substantial investments in artificial intelligence—as U.S. business executives made their own set of deals at a conference in the backdrop of Trump’s visit to Riyadh, the first stop on his four-day tour of the Middle East.