Saudi crown prince says kingdom intends to invest $600 billion in US during call with Trump

“The crown prince affirmed the kingdom’s volition to broaden its investments and commercialized with the United States implicit the adjacent 4 years, successful the magnitude of USD 600 billion, and perchance beyond that,” the study said.

There was nary contiguous readout from the White House connected the call. The crown prince, the de facto ruler of the oil-rich kingdom, besides spoke with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio aboriginal Thursday.

On Monday aft his inauguration, Trump talked astir perchance heading to the kingdom again arsenic his archetypal overseas trip, similar helium did successful 2017.

“The archetypal overseas travel typically has been with the UK but … I did it with Saudi Arabia past clip due to the fact that they agreed to bargain USD 450 cardinal worthy of our products,” Trump told journalists successful the Oval Office. “If Saudi Arabia wanted to bargain different USD 450 cardinal oregon USD 500 — we’ll up it for each the inflation — I deliberation I’d astir apt go.” The 2017 sojourn to the kingdom acceptable successful question a twelvemonth agelong boycott of Qatar by 4 Arab nations, including the kingdom.