Trump Deals In Saudi Arabia May Ultimately Be Less Than Advertised
U.S. officials were slow to provide details about the agreements announced during Trump's trip abroad. Many of the deals were nonbinding — others had been in the works since Obama's administration.
President Trump and Saudi King Salman sat side by side in the Royal Court Palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and watched as agreement after agreement was signed by Saudi officials and American CEOs. The signing ceremony lasted 22 minutes.
"Hundreds of billions of dollars of investments [into] the United States and jobs, jobs, jobs," President Trump raved to reporters a short time later.
A State Department official says the agreements are worth $380 billion: $110 billion in arms sales and $270 billion in commercial agreements. But beyond that, U.S. officials were slow to provide a complete list of the agreements or a full accounting of the totals they provided.
That hasn't, however, stopped President Trump and members
