Donald Trump has met with dozens of officials in Saudi Arabia, as part of his first major diplomatic international visit of his second term as US president. A timelapse shows a huge queue of people waiting to shake hands with the president. Trump is in Saudi Arabia as part of a four-day trip to the United Arab Emirates, aimed at securing hundreds of billions of dollars of investment in the US.
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