Trump’s Middle East trip formalizes his rebuke of the Republican Party’s ‘neocons’ - ANALYSIS: Republican president blasted ‘interventionalists’ on both sides of the American political spectrum during

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

In Saudi Arabia, the president denounced Western intervention and nation-building, garnering both praise and eye rolls.

President Donald J. Trump’s trip to the Middle East on May 13-16 comes on the heels of more than three months of whirlwind activity in US foreign policy where the region has been a higher priority than it was in the early months of the previous US administration.

The US president's foreign policy has been laid out unashamedly this week - it has been purely transactional - and in the Middle East it might just pay dividends. But might it work elsewhere, most of all to end Russia's war with Ukraine?