Posted on 11/18/2025 11:01:06 PM PST by SmokingJoe
President Donald Trump hosts Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for an opulent White House state dinner attended by global titans Elon Musk, Cristiano Ronaldo, Jeff Bezos, and leading CEOs. This star-studded "Royal Night" signals massive U.S.-Saudi investment deals, energy partnerships, and a bold diplomatic realignment reshaping Middle East power dynamics. For more details, watch our story and subscribe to our channel.
Live coverage of the private White House dinner between U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the East Room at 0015 GMT (November 19, 2025), following greetings at 2340 GMT. The evening concludes a landmark visit focused on finalizing a comprehensive defense agreement, $600+ billion Saudi investments, advanced military sales, nuclear energy cooperation, and Saudi Arabia’s potential normalization with Israel through the Abraham Accords.
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Our democracy and republic summarized:
—Politicians buy the voters.
—The rich oligarchs and corporations buy the politicians.
It wouldn’t be so bad, IF you had a society that had morals and was informed!!!
But, America is a country where you have very limited and low quality information about the world around us. You are blasted 24/7 by screaming and crying people on TV, radio, social media, even in the news papers, but the quality of information is horribly low and people are basically CLUELESS but have strong feelings on the topic.
You have a heterogenous society (ethnic / religious values) that is largely secular. Morals have been removed from our government and policy making. The public does not have any true expectations of its leaders being people of moral character, nor do they have any expectations that morals are consistently applied in policy making.
The arguments used by our policy makers are USUALLY post decision / action justifications for the masses, to give them a rallying cry and cause, to get them to support the decision already made and which has ulterior motives, usually economic.
Imagine the screeching if he served McDonalds. These propagandists are so predictable.
“That ABC reporterette brought up Khashoggi and Trump jumped down her throat. MBS was taken aback by her comment.”
Trump knew Khashoggi would be brought up by stooge-media/ bimbo eruption Reporterette.
So he was pre-psyched to put on a show for MBS. Trump was having a good laugh inside.
They used to say "a million here, a million there - pretty soon you're talking about real money."
There are very few people that understand what a Trillion dollars really is. Now President has mentioned maybe we can do $1.5 Trillion Dollars.
;-)
Trump was would say is in the top 5 project managers in the world today.
NOT SURE OF THAT AT ALL-—TRUMP’S PAYING FOR IT-—HE CAN GET THE BEST OF EVERYTHING. NOT SURE HE IS HELD TO ‘GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS’ AT ALL.
WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED IF THEY WORK 3 SHIFTS.
WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED IF TRUMP SETS UP TO FEED THEM ON EVERY SHIFT & BREAK.
ANYONE WHO HAS THOSE KINDS OF SKILLS WOULD BE EAGER TO WORK ON THIS.
IT IS A GIFT TO THE USA.
I AM THINKING THEY ARE STILL WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES.
I CALL THEM “MUSK’S WIZARDS”.
THEY CAN OPERATE WITHOUT HIS SUPERVISION
TAKING ANY BETS???
Wrong
Yes! Really hope they remain friends.
All h-1b pimps that are screwing American STEM workers . I wish Trump would reign in the tech bros.
Lost me at your first 2 sentences.
The dude was not an American
Find us something he wrote as a “journalist” ( he did funnel Qatari propo against the Saudi govt to the Post)
What he ultimately did to the Saudis…..or some other player in the world of intrigue, dark money, arms dealing, espionage, assassination plotting or whatever.. ……that got him tribal justice…who did he double cross and how….has never been revealed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal_Khashoggi
Why don’t you read about his positions and ideas.
Most were in step with Western and were on the liberal side of the political spectrum. His big reoccurring themes were women’s rights in Saudi Arabia and the Crown Price. The later probably got him tortured to death.
He did have a little bit of a Islamic flavor to him, but I have that regards Christianity too, as most others born and raised in the Christian world. His views were definitely NOT in step with those of an Islamist.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/jamal-khashoggi/
https://jamalkhashoggi.com/index.php/articles/
Read about him and his articles.
Don’t just trash him because you feel that’s the flag you need to rally around to be a Trump supporter, today.
If you mean that the bet will be that the construction is finished and the ballroom is usable on or before July 4, 2026, I will bet $200.00 that it will not be complete, with the loser paying the $200.00 to Free Republic and the winner gets to strut and crow.
I've made multiple bets on FR down through the years, and in every case, FR has received donations from some one {me included}.
If you {or anyone else} are interested, just respond and the bet will be official when I acknowledge it on FR.
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