White House: Trump 'united the entire Muslim world in a way that it really hasn't been in many years' on his big trip
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Trump on Tuesday wrapped up the Middle East leg of his first foreign trip as president. The trip included stops in Saudi Arabia and Israel.
"I think this trip was a big success because it was unexpected," the official said. "It went in the heart of one of the, I always say that the president is always at his best when he's doing big things that are unexpected. … He was able to really go into Saudi Arabia, the custodian of the holy mosques, and then Donald Trump united the entire Muslim world in a way that it really hasn't been in many years. So it really was very historic in that regard."
During the stop in Saudi Arabia, Trump delivered a speech to a group of leaders from dozens of Muslim nations. Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas while visiting Israel and the West Bank.
"The overall objective that we want to accomplish here is really try to find a peaceful way to create a new direction for the Middle East," the senior administration official told reporters Tuesday. "Where it's gone for the last 15 years has not been a good direction and we have to figure out how we do change that direction so that we obviously can have less war and more opportunity people there to live a better life."
The official said the Saudi Arabia stop was an "amazing coming together of a lot of people" who are "looking for an opportunity to follow the lead of what the president wanted to speak about."
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