Trump secures $600 billion deal with Saudi Arabia

Trump secures $600 billion deal with Saudi ArabiaOn the heels of historic agreements with the United Kingdom and China, President Donald Trump secured a massive $600 billion deal with Saudi Arabia.

According to the White House, Saudi Arabia promised to invest over half a trillion dollars in the United States, including $20 billion in AI data centers and energy infrastructure, $5.8 billion in the healthcare sector, and one of the largest defense sales agreements in history at nearly $142 billion.

Officials said the U.S. and Saudi Arabia are committed to growing their powerful strategic partnership that will supercharge crucial sectors like health, energy, and science.

“The deals celebrated today are historic and transformative for both countries and represent a new golden era of partnership between the United States and Saudi Arabia,” the White House said. “From day one, President Trump’s America First Trade and Investment Policy has put the American economy, the American worker, and our national security first.”

During an address in Saudi Arabia, President Trump urged “responsible nations” in the Middle East to pursue economic development and slammed “the so-called nation-builders, neo-cons, or liberal non-profits” for failing to develop Kabul and Baghdad. 

"If the responsible nations of this region seize this moment, put aside your differences and focus on the interests that unite you, then all humanity will soon be amazed at what we will see here in the geographic center of the world, and the spiritual heart of its greatest faiths," Trump said.

"Before our eyes, a new generation of leaders is transcending the ancient conflicts and tired divisions of the past, and forging a future where the Middle East is defined by commerce, not chaos; where it exports technology, not terrorism; and where people of different nations, religions, and creeds are building cities together, not bombing each other," he added.

Trump said it’s crucial that world leaders understand “this great transformation has not come from Western interventionalists flying in with lectures on how to live or how to govern your own affairs,” mocking the approach of “neo-cons” and “liberal non-profits.”