Watch Live: Trump Speaks From Saudi Arabia After Signing Hundreds of Billions in Joint Deals
Lavender carpet, gold chairs, an Arabian horse... all part of Trump's "historic return to the Middle East."
This article originally appeared on ZeroHedge and was republished with permission.
Guest post by Tyler Durden
Update(1005ET): Trump said to be moments away from speaking live from Riyadh after signing hundreds of billions of dollars in US-Saudi investment deals...
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If there's one thing that's clear by now, it's that Saudi Arabia and the royal family loves President Donald J. Trump.
For example, in an unusual move and break with protocol, it was Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) who rushed to greet Trump the moment the president stepped off Air Force One at the Royal Terminal on Tuesday.
The greeting was typically lavish, as Trump was received at the Royal Terminal at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, after which he and MbS walked a lavender carpet and sat down amid marble columns in navy-and-gold armchairs, as the NYT Times detailed.
"Trump lands in Saudi Arabia to a royal welcome from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman," Al-Monitor journalist Elizabeth Hagedorn pointed out. "Biden, by contrast, got the governor of Mecca."
As Air Force One entered the kingdom's airspace earlier Tuesday, Saudi fighter jets escorted it while approaching the Saudi capital.
And later, "The presidential limousine, nicknamed The Beast, was escorted by riders on Arabian horses as it drove to the royal court," NYT detailed.
Among the first major events includes Trump speaking at an investment forum hosted by the Saudi government. Accompanying him are Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and other top officials.
The investment forum has also seen the Saudi crown prince greet Elon Musk as well as other important tech and silicon valley chief executives, including from BlackRock, Palantir, Nvidia, OpenAI, IMB, CitiBank, and others.
Others eyeing potential investments from the Saudis, include billionaire medical entrepreneur Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, owner of The Los Angeles Times.
The president said before cameras upon the start of bilateral talks, "MBS is a friend, we have a good relationship."
"I really believe we like each other a lot," Trump added.
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Trump is hoping to secure a $1 trillion investment in US industry from the kingdom, significantly over and above the crown prince’s earlier investment pledge of $600bn, upon this first stop in his Gulf tour which will later include Qatar and UAE.
Importantly, the head of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, was at the airport with MbS for Trump's grand greeting at the VIP Royal Terminal.
Trump is more of a Diet Coke drinker, (or perhaps there was a remote fear in his mind of being poisoned?)...
President Trump salutes as the Saudis play the American National Anthem...
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The Silence He Refused
October 2, 2018 – Istanbul
Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to obtain documents for his upcoming marriage. He never came out.
Inside, he was ambushed, suffocated, dismembered, and disappeared—killed by a 15-man Saudi hit squad dispatched from Riyadh. Turkish intelligence caught the cover-up in real time. The CIA later concluded that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the operation to “capture or kill” him. The prince denied it. Washington shrugged.
Khashoggi had been living in exile, writing for The Washington Post. His crime? Telling the truth. He criticized authoritarian drift, the jailing of dissidents, and the hollow pageantry of reform in a regime that brooks no dissent.
They dismembered his body, but not his voice. His columns still speak—archived in ink and outrage. He warned us. He pleaded with us not to normalize repression masquerading as modernization.
Let it never be acceptable to murder a man for writing the truth. Let it never become forgettable.
—Wayne