Trump leaves Saudi Arabia
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President Donald Trump is in Qatar after he met with Syria’s interim president and inked deals in Saudi Arabia. Follow here for the latest live news updates.
The United States agreed on Tuesday to sell Saudi Arabia an arms package worth nearly $142 billion, according to a White House fact sheet that called it "the largest defense cooperation agreement" Washington has ever done.
BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Northern Trust Asset Management, Neuberger Berman and I Squared Capital signed preliminary agreements with the roughly $925 billion wealth fund to invest in its efforts to develop a series of new investment strategies focused on Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East and North Africa region.
Executives including Elon Musk and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, were in Saudi Arabia for new investments. That, not tariffs, is what they wanted from Trump.
A British Bank of America analyst has been jailed for 10 years in Saudi Arabia apparently over a since-deleted social media post.
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The Saudi de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, greeted Trump as he exited the Air Force One. Trump was welcomed with Saudi warplanes escorting the presidential aircraft when it was nearing to land in Riyadh.
President Trump is kicking off his four-day trip to the Middle East with a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh. The Morning Joe panel discusses.