Trump first floated the idea in February of a U.S. ownership of the beleaguered Gaza Strip to bring “peace” to what he described as a “demolition site.”

There’s more to Donald Trump’s Middle East trip than billion-dollar contracts, parades of camels and a storm back home over Qatar’s offer to give the president a new Air Force One.

Pence initially stayed in the background but has rebuked Trump on several foreign policy fronts in his second term.