Trump’s first foreign call was with ‘fantastic guy’ Prince Mohammed bin Salman about $600 billion deal
Trump’s first foreign call was with ‘fantastic guy’ Prince Mohammed bin Salman about $600 billion deal
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Trump hailed the crown prince American intelligence accused of ordering the assassination of a Washington Post journalist, and said he’s going to press Saudia Arabia to invest $1 trillion in the U.S. President Donald Trump spoke with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman this week about a multi-billion-dollar investment in the United States – which Trump boasted on Thursday he believes he could push to “$1 trillion.”.
In his first foreign phone call as president on Wednesday Trump said he and the crown prince spoke about Saudi Arabia investing $600 billion in the U.S. — though they did not clarify what those investments would be. One day later, at the World Economic Forum, Trump called the crown prince “a fantastic guy” and said he plans to ask Saudi Arabia to “round out” its investment to $1 trillion.
“I’ll be asking the crown prince, who is a fantastic guy, to round it out to around one trillion and I think they’ll do it because we’ve been good to them,” Trump said while appearing virtually at the forum. The president said he would also ask Saudi Arabia and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to bring down the price of oil.
“You got to bring it down, which, frankly, I’m surprised they didn’t do before the election,” he said. “That didn’t show a lot of love by them not doing it. I was a little surprised by that.”. He again reiterated that he would urge the crown prince to increase his investment in the U.S.
