Donald Trump’s unusual demand from Bin Salman that is going to shake the world

The incoming US president Donald Trump Talked to the Saudi crown prince Muhammad bin Salman On achieving stability in the Middle East and improving regional security, the Reuters news agency reported today (Thursday). During the conversation, the two discussed the international economic ambitions of the Saudi Kingdom in the coming years.

 

Trump:

Saudi Arabia will be investing at least $600 billion in America.

But I’m gonna ask them for $1 trillion. I think they’ll do that.

I’m also gonna ask Saudi Arabia and OPEC to bring down the cost of oil. You gotta bring it down. pic.twitter.com/nbzjH0X7cT

— Clash Report (@clashreport) January 23, 2025

During a speech he gave, Trump said that he would ask Saudi Arabia to lower the price of a barrel of oil, a move that would contribute to ending the war between Russia and Ukraine. “The war in Ukraine should not have started, and if I had been president it would not have happened,” he said.

The incoming US president said that he might meet the Russian president Vladimir Putin with the aim of “stopping this terrible war”. Trump also added that “China can help stop the war in Ukraine.”

In the meantime, Trump last night signed a presidential order returning the Houthi rebel organization in Yemen to the United States’ list of foreign terrorist organizations, a step that cancels the Biden administration’s decision from 2021 to remove them from the list.

The White House’s official announcement states that “as a result of the weak policies of the Biden administration, the Houthis have fired at US Navy ships dozens of times, attacked civilian infrastructure in friendly countries, and damaged commercial vessels more than 100 times.”