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US president Donald Trump is expected to arrive in Kuala Lumpur this Sunday, 26 October
Communications Minister Datuk Fahmi Fadzil confirmed that Trump will attend the 47th ASEAN Summit in the capital city, but declined to provide further details about his trip, reported the New Straits Times.
Trump, 79, will be the third US president to visit Malaysia while in office.
According to Bernama, citing a US news portal, Trump is expected to witness the signing of a peace accord related to the Thailand-Cambodia conflict and hold bilateral talks with Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
Besides ASEAN leaders, Trump will be joined by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
He has previously attended one ASEAN Summit: in 2017 in Manila, the Philippines during his first term as president.
In 2022, then-US president Joe Biden attended the ASEAN Summit in Phnom Penh, when Cambodia held the chairmanship.
Trump (second from left) with ASEAN leaders in 2017.
Image via Noel Celis/AFP via CNAHere are the other two US presidents who have visited Malaysia while in office:
1. Lyndon B Johnson in 1966
Lyndon B Johnson (left).
Image via U.S. Embassy Kuala Lumpur (Facebook)The 36th US president, Lyndon B Johnson, visited Malaysia in October 1966 primarily to attend a summit of Vietnam War allies.
During his visit, he praised Malaysia's success in defeating a communist insurgency and recognised the nation as a model for development, while seeking to strengthen US support in the region.
2. Barack Obama in 2014 and 2016
A photo of Obama (left) with then prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, taken in 2014.
Image via Larry Downing/Reuters via ifexObama, the 44th US president, visited Malaysia in April 2014 to strengthen trade ties and counter China's growing influence in the region, reported BBC.
His visit marked the first by a sitting US president since Johnson's trip 48 years earlier.
Two years later, in February 2016, he returned to Kuala Lumpur to attend the US-ASEAN and East Asia Summits.
He said the summits reflected the US national commitment to building a strong and enduring partnership with each of the 10 ASEAN nations, and with Southeast Asia as a unified region and community.
