Posted on 11/25/2025 12:53:55 PM PST by MacNaughton
On November 18, 2025, Trump and the Saudi Crown Prince walked into the Oval Office and treated it like a showroom floor. Every sentence was a sales pitch. Every claim was polished to sound like victory. And every lie was delivered with the confidence of people who assume the public won’t bother checking the fine print.
What you’re about to read is a highlight reel of contradictions, fantasy numbers, selective memory, and the kind of strategic blindness that gets entire regions burned to the ground.
They said the quiet parts out loud, assuming no one would connect the dots.
So I did.
Below is the transcript, broken open and exposed using their own words as evidence.
THE HUMAN RIGHTS LIE
THE CLAIM
“What he’s done is incredible in terms of human rights and everything else.”
THE TRUTH
Saudi Arabia remains one of the most repressive regimes on Earth:
There are no churches, because non-Islamic worship is not allowed to exist openly.
There are no political parties, because political opposition is illegal.
There is no free press, because every publication operates under state control and censorship.
Torture is well-documented, used regularly against detainees and critics.
Executions are carried out by sword, often in public squares.
Dissidents, activists, and critics are imprisoned, sometimes without charges, trials, or due process.
The war in Yemen remains a humanitarian catastrophe, fueled in part by Saudi military intervention.
When the President of the United States calls the architect of all that “incredible on human rights,” the world understands one thing:
Principles are for sale.
And our enemies are ready to buy.
WHEN $1 TRILLION BUYS A COUNTRY
THE CLAIM
“You’ve agreed to invest $600 billion into the United States… we are going to increase that 600 billion to almost $1 trillion… real investment, real opportunity.”
THE REALITY
This isn’t charity, and it isn’t “supporting American workers.” It is Saudi Arabia buying a massive stake in America’s future:
– They are not handing America money; they are buying assets.
– They will own pieces of our AI, our chip supply, our energy infrastructure, our turbines, our plants, our tech, our finance.
– They will sit inside key sectors, not outside cheering them on.
“Investment” in this context means ownership, control, and leverage over critical parts of the American economy for decades.
Once a foreign monarchy holds that kind of position inside your core systems, they don’t have to lobby you from the outside. They can influence you from the inside:
– They can pressure politicians with the threat of pulling capital.
– They can shape what gets built, where, and under whose rules.
– They can quietly steer decisions on technology, data, energy, and security through the companies and projects they bankroll.
And unlike American citizens, they won’t need to follow American rules to profit from American systems.
That $1 trillion is being sold to the public as “jobs and growth.” In reality, it is a long-term buy-in to American power structures by a regime that does not share our values, our freedoms, or our idea of human rights.
THE “WE DESTROYED IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM” DELUSION
THE CLAIM
“We wiped out the nuclear capacity of Iran… nobody else could have done that.”
THE TRUTH
Iran moved 400 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium before the B-2 strike.
The facility was relocated to Kolang Mountain, a site physically unreachable by any current military weapon on Earth.
Iran’s nuclear program was not “wiped out.”
The American public is being told a victory happened while Iran prepares 2,000-missile simultaneous launch capability, openly planning retaliatory strikes that would overwhelm Iron Dome and cripple Israel.
Declaring victory when the threat is evolving is negligence.
THE ABRAHAM ACCORDS LIE REPACKAGED
THE CLAIM
“We talked about the Abraham Accords… we have a very good feeling.”
THE TRUTH
Saudi Arabia did not normalize relations with Israel.
They did not join the Accords.
They did not give recognition.
They did not open embassies.
In this meeting, they didn’t even commit to movement, only “a good feeling.” Which means nothing changed except the optics.
A “good feeling” is not policy.
And yet it was sold to the public as though peace had been achieved.
False peace is how nations walk into war blindfolded.
THE SYRIA SANCTIONS CONFESSION
Here is the moment the mask didn’t just slip, it hit the floor.
THE CLAIM
“I lifted the sanctions on Syria at the request of the Crown Prince… and Erdogan.”
TRANSLATION
This wasn’t American policy driven by U.S. strategy or American security.
This was the President of the United States openly admitting he changed sanctions because two foreign leaders asked him to.
And let’s be serious:
He’s talking about lifting sanctions that helped pave the way for Abu Mohammad al-Julani, the jihadist who now leads Syria in 2025, a man sanctioned by the U.S., implicated in terror, and backed by foreign interests playing their own games.
So what do we have?
– Saudi Arabia told him to do it.
– Turkey told him to do it.
– He did it.
Saudi Arabia already has enough influence over the President that a simple request can flip U.S. policy on a war-torn country with active jihadist leadership.
Now imagine what happens after they invest $1 trillion and own pieces of our tech, our infrastructure, and our energy grid.
If this is the leverage they have before the buy-in, the imbalance that follows will be immeasurable.
The U.S. has now demonstrated, publicly, that it will hand foreign powers:
– policy
– weapons
– sanctions relief
– and geopolitical victories
if it means inching closer to political goals or superficial “peace deals.”
That is a superpower signaling it will give away anything, even if it endangers Americans, for the sake of a momentary headline.
THE F-35 NIGHTMARE
THE CLAIM
“Saudi Arabia will get top-of-the-line F-35s.”
THE TRUTH
F-35s are the backbone of Israel’s qualitative military edge, the one thing keeping Israel alive against dozens of hostile states.
Giving the same jets to Saudi Arabia erases that edge.
Saudi Arabia is a monarchy that has spent the last decade expanding jihadist influence from Yemen to Syria to Sudan.
You can’t give the crown jewel of U.S. military technology to a foreign monarchy and pretend it has zero consequence.
Once Saudi Arabia acquires the F-35, they own the leverage every administration fears to challenge.
THE KHASHOGGI WHITEWASH
THE CLAIM
“He knew nothing about it… we can leave it at that.”
THE TRUTH
The CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence publicly concluded that MBS approved the operation to capture or kill Khashoggi. The assassins were part of the Crown Prince’s own security apparatus, flown in on government jets, reporting up the same chain of command every other Saudi operation uses.
When you normalize the political assassination, you announce to every foreign government:
If a foreign ruler has the right oil, the right military purchase, or the right political usefulness, then even a political assassination becomes something we’re supposed to shrug off.
THE PALESTINIAN SHOW
THE CLAIM
“The Palestinians are doing very well… everybody’s happy.”
THE TRUTH
No one “doing very well” gets loaded onto flights to South Africa for thousands of dollars just to escape.
No one “happy” lives under two competing dictatorships, Hamas in Gaza, the PA in the West Bank, while Iran uses their land as a missile lab, and every regional power treats them like a bargaining chip.
The Palestinians aren’t “happy.” They’re being moved, negotiated, pressured, and traded around by the same leaders who claim to fight for them.
When a president describes that situation as “very well,” he isn’t giving an update.
He’s selling a narrative, one that conveniently protects the egos of the men in the room, while the people they’re talking about carry the consequences.
THE IRAN DEAL SETUP
THE CLAIM
“Iran very badly wants a deal… we are talking to them.”
THE TRUTH
Iran is not looking for a deal!
While Trump’s team frames this as “Iran wanting to talk,” Tehran is doing the opposite of a country desperate for negotiations:
– Iran is developing the ability to launch 2,000 missiles at once, enough to overwhelm any defense system in the region.
– Iran has moved large portions of its nuclear program into hardened locations that U.S. weapons cannot reach.
– Iran has increased uranium purity and expanded stockpiles.
– Iran has prepared its regional militias for coordinated retaliation.
Nothing about that signals a country begging for a seat at the table. It signals a country positioning itself for advantage while Washington pretends it still holds the cards.
Trying to sell this as “a moment for America to make a power move” ignores the obvious: Tehran isn’t crawling toward diplomacy. It is setting terms and watching U.S. officials pretend that asking Iran to negotiate is the same thing as controlling the outcome.
THE FAMILY BUSINESS LIE
THE CLAIM
“I have nothing to do with the family business… They’ve done very little with Saudi Arabia.”
THE TRUTH
Trump still owns the Trump Organization through a revocable trust and can pull money from it whenever he wants. Ethics experts have said this is not a real separation, just a cosmetic one.
In 2015, he bragged on stage that Saudis “buy apartments from me” and “spend $40–50 million” with him.
After the 2016 election, Saudi-funded lobbyists paid for about 500 nights at his D.C. hotel, with at least $270,000 in Saudi-linked spending tied to lobbying on a law 9/11 families cared about.
House Oversight later found that Saudi officials themselves spent at least $164,929 at that same hotel while he was in office.
His son-in-law Jared Kushner’s firm received $2 billion from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund after leaving the White House, over the objections of the fund’s own advisers, and has already earned tens of millions in Saudi-paid fees.
You don’t get to brag, “they spend $40–50 million on me,” collect Saudi money at your hotel, watch your son-in-law get a $2 billion Saudi check, sign new deals in Saudi Arabia, and then look into a camera and say your family has “done very little with Saudi Arabia.”
OBAMA AND THE “TREATED SAUDI BADLY” FAIRYTALE
THE CLAIM
“Obama treated Saudi Arabia very, very badly. And Biden didn’t know where the hell he was.”
This is the kind of line that sounds good in a rally clip but falls apart the second you look at actual policy.
Obama: “Very Badly” While Selling Them $115 Billion in Weapons
Barack Obama publicly annoyed the Saudis with:
- The Iran nuclear deal
- A few speeches about human rights
- Mild criticism over Yemen and regional behavior
- But behind the podium, his administration:
- Offered Saudi Arabia over $115 billion in weapons, equipment, and training, more than any previous U.S. administration.
- Backed the Saudi-led war in Yemen starting in 2015 with U.S. support, refueling, and targeting assistance.
That is not “treating them very badly.” That is arming them to the teeth while pretending to frown.
He did, at the very end, pause a single $400 million bomb sale over civilian casualties in Yemen, after years of green lights.
Now compare that to Trump’s record:
- Chose Saudi Arabia as his first foreign trip as president, signing and promoting a supposed $110 billion arms deal, which analysis later described as largely recycled and inflated.
- Vetoed bipartisan efforts in Congress to stop arms sales and U.S. support for the Yemen war.
- After Khashoggi’s murder, Trump bragged to Bob Woodward, “I saved his ass,” meaning MBS, by blocking Congress from holding him accountable.
In this Oval Office event, he goes even further:
He flat-out says the Crown Prince “knew nothing about it,” directly contradicting U.S. intelligence and his own private brag about saving him.
That’s the record.
So in comparison, both Obama and Trump have treated Saudi Arabia just as wonderful…
This was not a meeting.
It was an audition.
A monarchy walked into the Oval Office and was praised, defended, excused, sanitized, and rewarded.
It was not America-first, peace-first, principle-first.
It was Saudi-first, Abraham-Accords-nostalgia-first, foreign-ownership-as-victory-first.
The American people were fed lies, wrapped in flattery, and sold as historical progress.
And history will remember who sold it.
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I've been reading this author's commentaries for the last year on FrontPageMag.com. She is sharp.
Yes...and we are likely paying the Saudis to install these Islamic centers in the US. We are slowly giving away the country to the Muslims. Fortunately, the full turnover likely won’t happen for a few generations, but we will get there eventually.
Thanks for posting.
here’s my take: no matter what President Trump does or does not do, he’s gonna be a thousand times better than the Democrat alternatives that are being floated, so i really don’t sweat the small stuff, and all the stuff is small stuff ...
if/when the Democrats ever get back in power, the biden administration is gonna seem like the good ‘ol days ... period ...
I have always contended that things are not what they seem with regards to this peace plan, and that its propect for success were somewhere between slim & none with none having the odds on being the favored winner.
Now we are in wait & see phase as to what really transpires. But it was necessary to show who is the real aggressor in this conflict. Hamashas aready admitted that they will not give up their arms.
LIKELY-—THE SAUDIS ARE THE ONLY ONES WHO CAN CONTROL IRAN.
and you believe all that is claimed by Aynaz Anni Cyrus? Why would you?
https://t.me/beholdisraelchannel/65746
The tense conversation with bin Salman: “Trump was disappointed and angry”
The meeting held last Tuesday between Trump and the Saudi crown prince, which was supposed to mark a turning point in relations between Riyadh and Jerusalem, developed into a tense conversation.
According to American officials, the conversation was described as a “difficult conversation.” They said that Trump came to the meeting expecting significant progress in the normalization with Israel. But the crown prince was firm: the Saudi public “is not ready” for such a move at this time.
Trump did not like his response, to say the least: “Trump was angry and disappointed,” the officials said.
The next day, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio spoke with Netanyahu and clarified that Saudi Arabia would only receive a “downgraded” version of the F-35, while fully maintaining the qualitative military edge (QME) of the IDF, as required by American law.
([Israel] Channel 12 News)
I have no problem selling the Whabbis chips so long as the bags say Ruffles and Doritos. It’s more of the same influence buying game. $39 trillion in debt means selling off our assets to bad actors.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
Trump is selling stakes in the United States for his personal diplomatic legacy, which will not be treaties, which will not require succeeding presidents to agree to his one-on-one non-treaty “deals”.
Do I really praise the idea of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia owning major productive assets in the U.S.? NO!!!
“LIKELY-—THE SAUDIS ARE THE ONLY ONES WHO CAN CONTROL IRAN.”
They cannot. After years of trying they could not even defeat the Houthi in Yemen, which compared to Iran is next to nothing.
Maybe Fornt Page Mag would prefer the President just call a lid on the day, and not meet with anyone.
Totally disagree with you...
This article is pure claptrap propaganda, IMHO...
Particularly the B.S. about the Iranians having moved their nuke research inventory before the attack...
With regards to foreign investments in the U.S., any “assets” purchased, built, or developed by foreign actors increase the flow of money and jobs in the U.S.
Ultimately, these assets can be taken away from the foreign actors with the stroke of a pen, thereby becoming American-owned assets...
One can read the Bible and do much of the same kind of extremist-hate-driven analyses...
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