Trump is again diverging from U.S. presidential habit by choosing the Middle East, not Canada or Mexico, for the first foreign trip of his second term. He's hoping to do deals with three of the region's wealthiest countries.

After decades of complicated Middle East diplomacy that promised much and delivered little, perhaps there's something refreshingly honest about a president who cuts straight to the deal

The White House claimed that $600 billion in agreements had been secured, though documentation revealed only around $283 billion in confirmed deals

Trump is again diverging from U.S. presidential habit by choosing the Middle East, not Canada or Mexico, for the first foreign trip of his second term. Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar are three of the world's richest nations and they invest deeply in military and security technologies.