Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is heading to Washington this week, and the stakes could not be higher.

Not merely for MBS, as the prince is known — but for U.S. President Donald Trump. The past few weeks have been uncharacteristically unkind to The White House, which is reeling from the after-effects of America’s longest-ever government shutdown and the endless stings disgraced financial Jeffrey Epstein is still managing to deliver from the grave.

Enter bin Salman, who comes to Washington Tuesday as a follow-up of sorts to the president’s own Persian Gulf wheeling-and-dealing tour this past May.

That trip was primarily known for the $400 million (C$562 million) jumbo-jet gifted to Trump by Qatar as a sort of ornamental back-up to Air Force One. But much of the tour’s most mean

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