Trump says Saudi king wouldn't last 2 weeks without US support

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump made a harsh remark about Saudi Arabia which is its close ally, he warned Saudi Arabia’s King Salman he would not last in power “for two weeks” without the backing of the U.S. military.

President Trump said, “we protect Saudi Arabia. Would you say they’re rich? And I love the King, King Salman. But I said ‘King we’re protecting you, you might not be there for two weeks without us – you have to pay for your military.”

“I love Saudi Arabia. They are great, King Salman, I spoke with him this



morning. I said, king, you have got trillions of dollars. Without us, who knows what’s going to happen, with us, they are totally safe. But we don’t get what we should be getting,” he said at a rally in West Virginia.

He further added, “we defend many of these nations for nothing, and then they take advantage of us by giving us high oil prices. Not good. We want them to stop raising prices, we want them to start lowering prices.”

The Trump administration has had a close relationship with Saudi Arabia.