WASHINGTON WEEK: After being welcomed in royal style by Gulf leaders, President Trump announced enormous deals and made dramatic foreign policy decisions on the fly. He also advanced the cause of his family’s businesses. Join moderator Jeffrey Goldberg, Peter Baker of The New York Times, Stephen Hayes of The Dispatch, David Ignatius of The Washington Post and Andrea Mitchell of NBC News to discuss this and more.

PETER BAKER, NEW YORK TIMES: Donald Trump wants a Nobel Peace Prize. It’s really that simple. He had talked about it and talked about it, and talked about it in his first term. He actually even convinced Shinzo Abe, then the prime minister of Japan, quietly over dinner, he says, well, you’ll nominate me for that, won’t you? And Shinzo Abe obliged and nominated him for Nobel Peace Prize. He has it in his mind that he can be this world history figure, right? And look at the quote that you put up there on the board, not just Russia and Ukraine, not just Iran, but Azerbaijan and Armenia, for heaven’s sake. We’re talking about, you know, intractable disputes that have been there for decades that people have basically forgotten about because we can’t possibly ever solve them. This is a very ambitious is one word, messianic might be another word, you know, agenda that he has set out for himself.

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