At a lavish black-tie dinner in the East Room on Tuesday to honor Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, President Donald Trump described himself as the “best friend” the future king and his future kingdom “ever had.”
Less than 24 hours later, at a Saudi-U.S. investment forum at the Kennedy Center, the president said the “partnership” between Washington and Riyadh is “among the most consequential in the world” and boasted that he and Mohammed were “making our alliance stronger and more powerful than it’s ever been before.”
