Trump visits the Middle East: All countries visited by US President | Donald Trump News

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For the second time in his presidency, Donald Trump's first official state visit to Saudi Arabia.

For the second time in his presidency, Donald Trump selected Saudi Arabia as the goal for his first official state visit after short stops in Italy and the Vatican for the funeral of Pope Francis.

Trump arrived on Tuesday shortly before 10 a.m. local time (7:00 a.m.) in Riad, Saudi Arabia, where he was greeted by Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.

The US President will visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (VAE) from May 13 to 16, 2025.

Which countries attended Trump in his first term?

Trump visited 25 countries from January 2017 to January 2021 as US President.

The countries that Trump visited the most during his first term are:

1. France – four times
2. Japan, united kingdom – three times
3. Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Italy, South Korea, Switzerland, Vietnam – twice
4. Afghanistan, Argentina, Canada, China, Finland, India, Iraq, Israel, North Korea, Palestine, Philippines, Poland, Saudi -Arabia, Singapore, Vatican City – once –

The order of his travels is listed in the following infographic.

Trump was the first US president to make the Middle East his first foreign goal and visited Saudi Arabia from May 20 to 21, 2017.

He had bilateral conversations with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz and the detailed crown prince and defense minister Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) when the two countries signed a weapon contract for USD 110 billion.

Trump also took part in the Riad summit, a meeting of managers of more than 50 nations of the Muslim majority.

After visiting Saudi Arabia, Trump traveled to Israel, where he met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and was the first sitting US president who visited the west wall in Jerusalem. He then met the Palestinian authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the occupied city in the West Bank.

Trump's visit to India on February 24th to 25th, 2020 was his last international journey before the Pandemy of Covid-19 led to global travel restrictions.

The first country that was visited by every US president

The first trip of a US president is often seen as a signal for their priorities and foreign policy, which means that the sound for the way the USA will get in touch with the world in the next four years.

In 1906 Theodore Roosevelt was the first seated US president who traveled abroad when he visited Panama to inspect the construction of the Panama Canal, a key project for US trade and military strategy.

In recent times, in 1993, Bill Clinton's first trip to Canada and took the stage for the NAFTA. In 2001 George W. Bush Mexico visited and focused on trade and immigration. Barack Obama's first trip in 2009 was also to Canada and emphasized multilateral diplomacy. Joe Biden's first trip in 2021 was in Great Britain, where he took part in the G7 summit and highlighted traditional alliances and climate change.

The following graphic shows the first country that was visited by each US president.

Number of first presidential trips:

1. Canada – 5 (Kennedy, Johnson, HW Bush, Clinton, Obama)
2. United Kingdom – 4 (Wilson, FD Roosevelt, Carter, Biden)
3. Panama – 3 (t Roosevelt, Taft, Harding)
4. Mexico – 3 (Ford, Reagan, Bush)
5. Belgium – 2 (Truman, Nixon)
6. Saudi Arabia – 2 (Trump, first and second term)
7. Cuba – 1 (Coolidge)
8. Honduras – 1 (Hoover)
9. South Korea – 1 (Eisenhower)

All US presidential excursions abroad (1906-2024)

The following table shows the more than 800 presidential trips carried out by 21 of the youngest presidents of the United States, starting with Theodore Roosevelt in 1906.

The countries visited most of the time:

1. Great Britain (69 times)
2. France (51 times)
3. Canada (41 times)
4. Mexico (35 times)
5. Italy (33 times)

The countries visited by most US presidents include:

1. Italy (15 presidents)
2. Mexico (15 presidents)
3. Great Britain (15 presidents)
4. France (14 presidents)
5. Vatican City (14 presidents)

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