{"id":27753,"date":"2017-11-08T19:18:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T00:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27753"},"modified":"2017-11-08T19:28:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T00:28:06","slug":"the-secret-reason-trump-is-so-cozy-with-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27753","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Reason Trump Is So Cozy With Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalman.com\/articles\/the-secret-reason-trump-is-so-cozy-with-saudi-arabia\">The Secret Reason Trump Is So Cozy With Saudi Arabia<\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"article-body\" class=\"margin_top_25\">\n<p>As a candidate, Donald Trump used uncommonly harsh language to criticize Saudi Arabia\u2014the world\u2019s largest oil exporter.<\/p>\n<p>He called the Saudi regime the world\u2019s biggest funder of terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>He also said the Saudi government uses \u201cour petro dollars\u2014our very own money\u2014to fund the terrorists that seek to destroy our people, while the Saudis rely on us to protect them!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At another point, Trump said, \u201cWho blew up the World Trade Center? It wasn\u2019t the Iraqis, it was Saudi [Arabia].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump also criticized Hillary Clinton for taking Saudi money for the Clinton Foundation. (They were its biggest \u201cdonors.\u201d) He even challenged her to return the money.<\/p>\n<p>He also famously got into a Twitter spat with a prominent member of the Saudi royal family, Alwaleed bin Talal.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d24g2nq85gnwal.cloudfront.net\/images\/171108-img01-giq450.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a candidate, Trump blasted the Saudis countless other times.<\/p>\n<p>But, after he took office, Trump did a complete 180. He stopped criticizing the Saudis. In fact, he\u2019s now singing their praises.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s bizarre\u2026 as if someone put a severed horse head in his bed.<\/p>\n<p>Mere months after criticizing the Saudis, he was on Air Force One headed to Saudi Arabia to do the sword dance with his new friends.<\/p>\n<p>It was his first foreign trip as president.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d24g2nq85gnwal.cloudfront.net\/images\/171108-img02-giq450.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><em>President Trump with King Salman<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s about face was astounding. But his newly adopted deference to the Saudis is no different than Obama\u2019s, Baby Bush\u2019s, or any previous president\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d24g2nq85gnwal.cloudfront.net\/images\/171108-img03-giq450.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><em>President Obama with King Abdullah<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d24g2nq85gnwal.cloudfront.net\/images\/171108-img04-giw450.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><em>President G.W. Bush with King Abdullah<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today, I\u2019ll tell you why Trump made such an abrupt turnaround. I\u2019ll also explain why the Saudis get special treatment from the US Deep State.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>\u201cAs Good As Gold\u201d\u2014From Bretton Woods to the Petrodollar<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s been rightly said that he who holds the gold makes the rules.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secret Reason Trump Is So Cozy With Saudi Arabia As a candidate, Donald Trump used uncommonly harsh language to criticize Saudi Arabia\u2014the world\u2019s largest oil exporter. He called the Saudi regime the world\u2019s biggest funder of terrorism. He also said the Saudi government uses \u201cour petro dollars\u2014our very own money\u2014to fund the terrorists that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5],"tags":[7844,6228,11725,588,626,701,793],"class_list":["post-27753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-donald-trump","tag-international-man","tag-nick-giambruno","tag-oil","tag-petrodollar","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27756,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27753\/revisions\/27756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}