TRUMP SECURES $283 BILLION SAUDI DEAL

Written by Michael Thervil

Video courtesy of the White House

Yesterday, American President Donald Trump visited Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for the “Saudi-US Investment Forum 2025” which was held at the King Abdulaziz International Conference Center. The Saudi-US Investment Forum was started in 1945, and for roughly 8 decades, this investment forum has been facilitating a platform in which a multitude of investors from both the United States and Saudi Arabia come together and strike various deals that both countries can benefit from. Industries such as logistics, banking and finance,  and artificial intelligence were topics of discussion. Beyond that, as seen in this year’s forum, both countries exercise their influence over each other so that other countries may benefit from the deals that are made there.

President Trump's speech at this year’s Saudi-US Investment Forum was one that was filled with him highlighting the achievements that America has accomplished since his current term in office. President Trump also took the time out to speak out against Iran and to criticize the actions that Iran may have taken in Syria during the Bashar al-Assad Administration. President Trump also stated that although he didn’t want to harp on the past action of Iran, he wanted to offer Iran the opportunity to come to the table and make a deal in an effort to hash out any prior issues that the two countries may have had between each other.

On Iran President Trump went on to say the following:

“I want to make a deal with Iran. If I could make a deal with Iran, I would be very happy. We’re going to make your region and the world a safer place. But if Iran’s leadership rejects this olive branch and continues to attack their neighbors  then we would have no choice but to inflict massive maximum pressure, drive Iranian oil exports to zero like I did before.”

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The laid-back tough talk on Iran during President Trump's speech may sound good to the people that take a hawkish position on Iran, but the reality shows a vastly different probable outcome. The question that’s being asked is what exactly can America give Iran that it hasn’t given them before? Besides the overthrowing the Iran government in 1953 which led to the fall of prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh and the installation of pro-American Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi which ultimately led to the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979. It’s been well over 4 decades since America has used its ability to weaponize sanctions on Iran. Not only have These sanctions failed for over 4 decades, but Iran has also grown economically.

President Trump also stated that America would make the region in which Iran lies in and the world safe. But the true fact of the matter is that President Trump couldn’t even make Chicago safe during his first term in office and still hasn’t made any moves to make Chicago, let alone America safe as of right now. so, what solution does he have in place to make Iran safe? And since when did the people of Iran ask President Trump to help make them safe? If Iran decided to reject President Trump’s preverbal “olive branch” because of his hawkish position on Iran to neve have the ability to build a nuclear weapon or have the ability to enrich uranium pass a certain point, what right does President Trump have to use methods of cohesion whether it be physical of economic to bend Iran, a sovereign country to his will?

Other than Iran, President Trump also stated that he brokered the biggest deal between India and Pakistan and that he “used trade to do it”. It was almost like President Trump forgot that India and Pakistan have been having issues since the early part of the 20th century. The question that’s being asked is “Does President Trump really think that almost a century of animosity is just going to disappear overnight because he said: “Let’s make a deal”? President Trump also touched on the Ukraine-Russia War, which isn’t a war to many people because from their perspective, Ukraine lost the war over a year and half ago. Another thing that President Trump touched on was Ansarullah (Houthis). He stated that the American military launched over “1,100 strikes on the Houthis in Yemen and as a result the Houthis agreed to stop”. For those familiar with Ansarullah already know that’s not a true statement as Ansarullah has never been defeated as they don’t fear death.

President Trump also stated that he would order that the sanctions on Syria be lifted in order to give the people of Syria a chance. Never mind that the Intern President of Syria Ahmed al-Sharaa was a wanted ISIS terrorist with a $10 million bounty on his head and actually killed American soldiers. The reality is, if it was that easy to lift the sanctions off Syria than those same sanctions could have been lifted during Bashar al-Assad Administration which would have aided in avoiding him being overthrown and the country plunging into chaos costing the lives of civilians.

Some people that watched the Saudi-US Investment Forum felt as if President Trump rambled more than anything during his speech at the 2025 Saudi-US Investment Forum, maybe they're right. But for what it’s worth there were over 30 American investment tycoons that attended the investment forum. American industry leaders such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, Dara Khosrowshahi (Uber CEO), Owner of Los Angeles Times and biotech entrepreneur Patrick Soon-Shiong, Larry Fink of BlackRock, and Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone amongst others.

This year's Saudi-US Investment Forum resulted in tech giants such as Amazon, AMD, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Google, along with Uber, Salesforce, and others yielded an $80 billion dollar deal between them. It should be noted that Saudi Arabia pledged roughly $283 billion in investment capital on their end and also purchased $142 billion dollars in weapons during this year’s Saudi-US Investment forum.