The Saudi Crown Prince’s (MbS) and President Trump’s economic bargaining and the toadyism praise session during their press conference in the Oval Office today (11/18/2025) will not polish either’s tarnished domestic, regional or global image or isolation. Globally isolated since the slaughter and dismemberment of Saudi Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, MbS, whom American intelligence, prominent Saudi human rights critics and global agencies concluded gave the order to have his insider critic Khashoggi slaughtered, has been relentlessly striving to transform his stained image.
MbS’s transgressions meant nothing to President Trump, who defended the prince during the disjointed press conference in the Oval Office. The only item on Mr. Trump’s agenda was focused on pushing MbS to commit to investing a trillion dollars in major U.S. companies, like Boeing and Silicon Valley’s modern technologies companies.
None of this should come as a surprise since Mr. Trump’s America (and his Family) First agenda over rides empowering American democratic values.
