![Trump called King Salman on Saturday to discuss efforts to maintain supplies to ensure oil market stability [Pablo Martinez/AP Photo]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2018/9/3/3f9acfe4e73341bb9af426054b71e652_18.jpg "Trump: Saudi king wouldn't last 'two weeks' without US support")
US President Donald Trump said close ally Saudi Arabia and its king would not last “for two weeks” without US military support at a rally in Mississippi on Tuesday.
“We protect Saudi Arabia. Would you say they’re rich? And I love the king, King Salman. But I said ‘King – we’re protecting you – you might not be there for two weeks without us – you have to pay for your military,'” the president said to cheers at the rally.
Trump did not say when he made those remarks to the Saudi monarch, but they come amid increasing oil prices in the US.
Saudi Arabia is the world’s top oil exporter and the de facto leader of the oil-producing bloc, OPEC, which has been criticised by Trump for high oil prices.
Trump called King Salman on Saturday to discuss efforts to maintain supplies to ensure oil market stability and global economic growth, according to Saudi state news agency SPA.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman travelled to Kuwait last weekend to speak with Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber Al Sabah, reportedly about increasing oil production.
No further developments have surfaced from the Kuwait meeting but media reports said the Gulf crisis was also on the agenda of the talks.
Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly in New York last month, Trump said OPEC members were “as usual ripping off the rest of the world”.
Oil prices are on the rise. A barrel of oil currently costs about $75, continuing a steady increase over the past year. The price per barrel was around $50 in October 2017.
The average cost of a gallon (3.78 litres) of petrol in the US was three dollars in May, according to AP. Despite the harsh words, the Trump administration has had a close relationship with Saudi Arabia, which it views as a bulwark against Iran’s ambitions in the region.
Trump made Saudi Arabia his first stop on his maiden international trip as president last year, shortly before Bahrain, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia imposed a blockade on Qatar, alleging support of terror organisations and decrying what they see as its close relationship with Iran.
Qatar has denied the allegations.
“We defend many of these nations for nothing, and then they take advantage of us by giving us high oil prices. Not good. We want them to stop raising prices, we want them to start lowering prices,” Trump said.
The US military was stationed in Saudi Arabia from the first Gulf War against Iraq in 1990 to 2003, when then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announced pullout.
The presence of the US military in Saudi Arabia, home to the two holiest sites in Islam – Mecca and Medina – was strongly objected to by most of the world’s Muslim population, according to opinion polls published by Gallup in 2009.
Qatar hosts the largest US military base in the region.
Trump has also pressed other US allies, such as Japan, South Korea and Germany, to take more of the financial burden of their defence.
Chrome Mags on Wed, 3rd Oct 2018 4:39 pm
1) Nixes the Iran nuclear deal
2) Puts sanctions on Iran & threatens any country importing Iranian oil
3) Demands other OPEC countries, in particular the Saudi’s make up for the reduced supply
4) Claim King Salman/Saudi Arabia wouldn’t last 2 weeks without US military support, a huge insult, particularly in that neck of the woods
What the heck was wrong with an agreement that held Iran in check from enriching uranium? Wasn’t that the big political goal, the deal Trump tossed out?
Because of this cavalier attitude towards diplomacy, oil price has been and continues to escalate which will put downward pressure on the US economy just as we head into Fall, then Winter. Let’s all stand and applaud the timing of this, then puke up our guts in disgust.
Anonymous on Wed, 3rd Oct 2018 5:16 pm
It may be an insult but it is true. Sometimes you just have to say the Emperor has his dong hanging out.
deadly on Wed, 3rd Oct 2018 9:01 pm
Trump wouldn’t last two weeks if the White House weren’t surrounded by ten foot tall chain link fence.
He is not too popular in Warshington.
boney joe on Wed, 3rd Oct 2018 10:37 pm
Question: What psychological forces are at play that cause people to support Trump and the Republicans?
Answer: They find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear.
The Trump era is such a whirlwind of cruelty that it can be hard to keep track. This week alone, the news broke that the Trump administration was seeking to ethnically cleanse more than 193,000 American children of immigrants whose temporary protected status had been revoked by the administration, that the Department of Homeland Security had lied about creating a database of children that would make it possible to unite them with the families the Trump administration had arbitrarily destroyed, that the White House was considering a blanket ban on visas for Chinese students, and that it would deny visas to the same-sex partners of foreign officials. At a rally in Mississippi, a crowd of Trump supporters cheered as the president mocked Christine Blasey Ford, the psychology professor who has said that Brett Kavanaugh, whom Trump has nominated to a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court, attempted to rape her when she was a teenager. “Lock her up!” they shouted.
Ford testified to the Senate, utilizing her professional expertise to describe the encounter, that one of the parts of the incident she remembered most was Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge laughing at her as Kavanaugh fumbled at her clothing. “Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter,” Ford said, referring to the part of the brain that processes emotion and memory, “the uproarious laughter between the two, and their having fun at my expense.” And then at Tuesday’s rally, the president made his supporters laugh at her.
Once malice is embraced as a virtue, it is impossible to contain.
The cruelty of the Trump administration’s policies, and the ritual rhetorical flaying of his targets before his supporters, are intimately connected.
We can hear the spectacle of cruel laughter throughout the Trump era. There were the border patrol agents cracking up at the crying immigrant children separated from their families, and the Trump adviser who delighted white supremacists when he mocked a child with down syndrome who was separated from her mother. There were the police who laughed uproariously when the president encouraged them to abuse suspects, and the Fox News hosts mocking a survivor of the Pulse Nightclub massacre (and in the process inundating him with threats), the women who said the president sexually assaulted them, and the teen survivors of the Parkland school shooting. There was the president mocking Puerto Rican accents shortly after thousands were killed and tens of thousands displaced by Hurricane Maria, the black athletes protesting unjustified killings by police, the women of the #MeToo movement who have come forward with stories of sexual abuse, and the disabled reporter whose crime was reporting on Trump truthfully. It is not just that they enjoy this cruelty, it is that they enjoy it with each other. Their shared laughter at the suffering of others is an adhesive that binds them to each other, and to Trump.
The sense of community among Trump supporters is built by rejoicing in the anguish of those they see as unlike them, who have found in their shared cruelty an answer to the loneliness and atomization of modern life.
The laughter undergirds the daily spectacle of insincerity, as the president and his aides pledge fealty to bedrock democratic principles they have no intention of respecting. The president who demanded the execution of five black and Latino teenagers for a crime they didn’t commit decrying “false accusations,” when his Supreme Court nominee stands accused; his supporters who fancy themselves champions of free speech meet references to Hillary Clinton or mentions of a woman whose only crime was coming forward to offer her own story of abuse with screams of, “Lock her up!” The political movement that elected a president who wanted to ban immigration by adherents of an entire religion, who encourages police to brutalize suspects, and who has destroyed thousands of immigrant families for violations of the law less serious than those of which he and his coterie stand accused, now laments the state of due process.
This isn’t incoherent. It reflects a clear principle: Only the president and his allies, his supporters, and their anointed are entitled to the rights and protections of the law, and if necessary, immunity from it. The rest of us are entitled only to cruelty, by their whim. This is how the powerful have ever kept the powerless divided and in their place, and enriched themselves in the process.
Theedrich on Wed, 3rd Oct 2018 11:41 pm
Boney is on the rag again. Like most man-haters, she fancies that Trump, and men in general, can solve all the world’s problems (for which men are per definitionem responsible) with a wave of a magic wand. And of course, the lower races are by no means responsible for their own miseries. Nor do women like the anti-Kavanaugh skags ever lie. Never. Just like many actresses role-playing in the movies or on TV, they are all “credible.” Of course, reality plays no part in their allegations. Only what Sörös, his tribe and their marionettes say.
Maybe Boney should stop writing during her periods.
print baby print on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 1:23 am
Chrome this is not anymore just because of the uranium enrichment it is because of the Iranian missile program ( IMP) . The IMP is a non sustainable situation for Israel. It is a small country and with the destruction of the Demona nuclear facility it may become inhabitable , and Iran doesnt need nukes to do that the IMP is enough. The Iranian missiles capabilities must be destroyed. Obama wasn’t ready to start an economical armagedon ( war with Iran) Trump is ready and economical armagedon is upon us we like it or not , no more kicking the can down the road
Go Speed Racer on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 1:40 am
FOUR MORE YEARS, FOUR MORE YEARS !!!
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print baby print on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 3:08 am
Two more years , two more years , two more years hahahhahaha good one speedy.
two or four its upon us just to know
makati1 on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 4:45 am
Economical Armageddon for whom, pbp? The US? The ME? The whole world? Details please.
From my view point: the US certainly; the ME likely; the rest of the world, only if they are tied too tight to the USD. We shall see.
makati1 on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 5:01 am
BTW:Philippines National Debt in 2017 was ~$73,000,000,000. or <25% of the 2017 GDP of ~$313,600,000,000. vs. US at 105+%. The Filipino owes about $730, per capita, vs the American at $65,000+. Now, who will survive the crash better? LOL
Davy on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 5:30 am
billy, the P’s has a gpp similar to my insignificant state of Missouri with 16 times the population on a little more than double the area. You are in the crosshairs of super typhoons. Earthquakes, mudslides, volcanoes, and a destroyed ecosystem. What is to bragg about?
TheNationalist on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 5:48 am
There’s boney and her ilk again with the wailing hysteria. What was once a credible left wing in the West has been reduced to a nauseating and all too familiar – “its all Trump’s fault!” “its all Trump’s fault!”.
Wow.
makati1 on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 6:42 am
But Davy, your “show me” state is full of retards, inbreeds, druggies and welfare sluts. No comparison to the Ps where most are hard working, independent, educated people. Rotting fish Missouri to fresh marlin Ps, in ability and independence. You are a prime example of Missouri trash as most here will affirm.
As usual, all bullshit, no refs or real facts. Do you want me to point out the US’ faults? Sorry. The website manager will not allow a list of refs that long. Millions of families living in the US streets. Shit all over US city sidewalks. Drug use exploding. Suicide exploding. Inflation in the 8-10% range. Unemployment in the upper double digits. Incomes that are stagnant or declining. A government that cannot tell the truth because it would tell you that the US is 3rd world already. And on and on.
Earthquakes, etc, are normal here and have been since the Ps was settled some 70,000 years ago. But no one here will freeze to death or starve. Life goes on. Maybe your 100+ people per day that die in auto accidents don’t count? Or the thousands who are maimed for life? Or the military veteran suicide rate exceeding car deaths? Or…? LMAO
Antius on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 6:52 am
“Question: What psychological forces are at play that cause people to support Trump and the Republicans?
Answer: They find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear.”
Er…The desire to enjoy the fruits of their own labour perhaps? The need for a future that involves something other than mass colonisation, mongrelisation, poverty and the end of their civilisation? Little things like that.
Most of them are probably sensible enough to realise that the modern Republican Party is unlikely to herald the rebirth of western civilisation. But compared to the alternative, it is at least not quite so bad. The Conservatives in Britain have been pulling the same trick for decades. They have long since ceased to be conservative in most of what they stand for. But they have the singular advantage of ‘not being the Labour Party’. A vote for the useless Conservatives is a vote to keep the wreckers of civilisation out of power. Anyone that cares about the future, has made something of themselves and who isn’t insane; will do almost anything to prevent this from happening. So the Conservatives get away with being useless and ineffectual; even buying into left-wing idiocy up to a point, because the alternative is quite literally the Devil.
Davy on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 6:52 am
“But Davy, your “show me” state is full of retards, inbreeds, druggies and welfare sluts.”
Got references? If that is the case than why the similar gdp and 16 times less population….lol. That says something about your turd world.
“No comparison to the Ps where most are hard working, independent, educated people.”
Got references because your opinion is not fact.
“As usual, all bullshit, no refs or real facts. Do you want me to point out the US’ faults? Sorry. The website manager will not allow a list of refs that long.”
Translation: I have none says billy
“Millions of families living in the US streets. Shit all over US city sidewalks. Drug use exploding. Suicide exploding. Inflation in the 8-10% range. Unemployment in the upper double digits. Incomes that are stagnant or declining. A government that cannot tell the truth because it would tell you that the US is 3rd world already. And on and on.”
Exaggerations. Things are not much worse than the past and many things are better. I am not impressed with your Asia either. Same is true there. You need to have a look at your senility billy
Davy on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 7:01 am
I am an independent that sees the liberal left today as toxic and dangerous. They can’t touch the bad Trump is doing besides the liberal left controls the deep state that runs the country. If they did not Trump would not have the issues he does. I am looking for moderate liberal policies to be built upon with leadership from both sides. As long as the extremist left is free to destroy the governing process there is little hope of top down advancement of needed policy. These important efforts will continue from the bottom but lack a push from the top. The top is now a head wind to the type of changes needed.
print baby print on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 7:21 am
Mak I think gradually for whole world
I AM THE MOB on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 7:38 am
Davy
Does the pshy ward know you smuggled in a mobile phone?
You sound like Alex Jones, tin foil hat, black helicopters coming for you..
You have gone so far off the rails..This is because you are a narrow minded bigot who only reads far right zerohedge..
I AM THE MOB on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 7:41 am
Mak
Davy’s state is ranking in the top ten worst by CNBC..All are republican states as well..No shocker there.
America’s 10 worst states to live in
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/28/americas-worst-states-to-live-in-2018.html?__source=facebook%7Cmain
GetAVasectomyAndLetTheHumanSpecieDie on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 7:50 am
Arab and Black at too primitives and don’t belong in Western nations. We should stop technologies sharing with Africa and Arab countries and let them die.
Once they are dead we could colonize Africa and Middle-east and build real countries. A new mine-ice is coming and Western nations will become inhabitable. We need to get rid of all Arab and Black. They are too primitive and nobody like them other then libtards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM_AiYOu4zQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9ZSII3qADI
Davy on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 9:12 am
Stupid, Missouri murder rate is primarily in two small areas. Kansas City and St. Louis have inner city problems. These are a few city blocks in size. The state otherwise is a great place to live. Your CNBC BS fake new is something your fake news research would come up with. I have been to Michigan and it is not any better than my state.
TurningPoint on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 9:18 am
What in the world is wrong with this site that people are allowed to say, “THE LOWER RACES?” Does this site have a moderator? I come to read articles and comments about Peak Oil and world events, not to read those kinds of comments.
If there’s a mod on this site, DO YOUR JOB!
Davy on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 9:24 am
No moderator and good luck trying to moderate on your own. I have tried this for years but extremist actually like the conflict. Asked billy, neder, and Iam stupid about the enjoyment they get from conflict. They love trashing topics with their off topic extremist agendas.
onlooker on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 10:08 am
Turning point, we are allowed to say almost anything we want on this News section area of the website. So you are going to have to develop thick skin and filter/ignore what comments you find over the top.. Just a little heads up.
Antius on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 10:11 am
TurningPoint,
We live in an age of censorship and political oppression and this site is a very rare example of an unmoderated internet forum. The comments are often off-topic and uncoordinated, which can often be irritating. They may offend your moral certainties. But I personally have learned a lot more from these threads on a wider variety of topics than would have been possible in a more controlled environment. Even the shitheads here occasionally teach me something new. Appreciate it for what it is.
Cloggie on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 11:19 am
Comrade Turningpoint,
Come back when DJT has left the WH, then this site will be heavily censored.
Btw: I never heard about you. Any opinions about peak oil or are you just a commie troll trying to censor others?
Forget it, rethorical.
Do you believe in the holocaust?
Why?
I AM THE MOB on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 11:34 am
World economy at risk of another financial crash, says IMF
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/oct/03/world-economy-at-risk-of-another-financial-crash-says-imf
Antius on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 12:09 pm
“Comrade Turningpoint,
Come back when DJT has left the WH, then this site will be heavily censored.
Btw: I never heard about you. Any opinions about peak oil or are you just a commie troll trying to censor others?
Forget it, rethorical.”
LOL. Disagree with a Marxist or anyone with left-wing views and the first thing they want to do is shut you down. Their first instinct is to call the police!
Comrade Turningpoint proves that point – he wants thought police to monitor this board, banning and removing people that he doesn’t agree with. It is why I have stated on numerous occasions previously that Marxism is inherently totalitarian. These people’s views are more akin to a religious belief than a reasoned point of view.
Which is why anything that this people disagree with is automatically offensive to them; you are challenging their emotional security. Undermining the myths upon which their whole world view is based.
Clearly, such individuals are mentally ill. It is time we stopped patronising them. The worst thing that can be done with the mentally ill is to feed their delusions in any way.
Davy on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 12:23 pm
Turning point is a person of color and does not appreciate white people talking to him like assholes. Anyone can relate to that.
Cloggie on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 12:25 pm
DJT, whom I consider a great president, single-handedly taking on the US Deep State… OK, his environmental policies aren’t exactly stellar… said DJT is right about KSA.
Without the US around, this improbable offshoot of the Ottoman Empire of former fame would be toast and ripped apart by the likes of Turkey and Iran, Muslim Brotherhood, Shi’ite insurgents in the Eastern provinces, all subsidized by Qatari money and the nod from Moscow and Beijing.
thelowestrace on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 4:19 pm
The lowest races are the leftist white trash traitors and the kikes.
Turningpoint, go get your clit cut out and gang-raped to death by some afganis.
Did you like my post?
PS
Peak oil is just a few years away..
Anonymouse1 on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 8:07 pm
the lowest race = cloggenyid and his fellow verminous pack of sniveling rodents, no contest.
boney joe on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 8:38 pm
” Your CNBC BS fake new is something your fake news research would come up with.”
The DavyDonaldTurd (DDT) hypocrisy machine is alive and kicking.
boney joe on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 8:43 pm
“The lowest races are the leftist white trash traitors and the kikes. Turningpoint, go get your clit cut out and gang-raped to death by some afganis. Did you like my post?”
Question: What psychological forces are at play that cause people to support Trump and the Republicans?
Answer: They {DavyTurd-Anus-Usual Suspects} find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear. Once malice is embraced as a virtue, it is impossible to contain. The cruelty of the Trump administration’s policies, and the ritual rhetorical flaying of his targets before his supporters, are intimately connected.
makati1 on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 8:44 pm
Davy is just in deep denial. Coming events will straighten out his delusions, IF he lives that long. He still believes he is living in the exceptional/indispensable country and is also exceptional/indispensable. The world is about to prove both assertions wrong.
boney joe on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 8:48 pm
The sense of community among Trump/Republican supporters is built by rejoicing in the anguish of those they see as unlike them, who have found in their shared cruelty an answer to the loneliness and atomization of modern life.
Go Speed Racer on Thu, 4th Oct 2018 10:29 pm
Especially beating up the homeless.
It’s so much fun to drive a monster truck
thru a homeless camp. then off to the polls
and vote GOP.
And on Sunday… get forgiven at church!
DerHundistLos on Fri, 5th Oct 2018 2:10 am
Go Racer X:
That’s what I call a 3 for 1 deal. Squish the homeless, then vote, and finally time to repent. If you will throw in a meal, I might even join the fun and games!!!!
Davy on Fri, 5th Oct 2018 5:07 am
“Davy is just in deep denial. Coming events will straighten out his delusions, IF he lives that long.”
Billy, you are the one pushing 80 and suffering senility in a 3rd world country with no health care. Guam is a long way off to get your Medicare. Yea, when billy’s health gets bad he will eat his words and run off to the US to get help that is if he can. Many times illnesses strike suddenly and he will be at the mercy of a jungle clinic. I think I have a better situation going with a real farm, family, and a future. LOL
Paul on Fri, 5th Oct 2018 6:11 am
A word to the wise. Hate speech aimed at women and non-whites is always fair game, but NEVER insult trannies. That will get you shut down for sure.
Cloggie on Sat, 6th Oct 2018 7:07 am
KSA’s MBS hits back against Trump:
https://www.rt.com/news/440476-saudi-prince-reforms-civil-war/
“Saudi Arabia can survive ‘2,000 years’ without US help & not face civil war like America – MBS”
Even MBS knows why davy will flee to Italy eventually:
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2018/06/11/cw2-brewing/