Al Arabiya editor: Money & love in Saudi Arabia

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00:00There's been some big money happening too.

00:03Well, you know, Trump is always described as someone who loves money.

00:07But he wants money, but apparently he wants love as well.

00:11And this is the one trip where he got the same amount of money and love.

00:16I mean, you have to go to very deep America for his MAGA rallies where you can see this connection with people.

00:23And in Saudi Arabia, you felt it was so natural.

00:26And whoever organized this meeting with the businessman and played the YMCA song and the God Bless America song

00:34and gave the spotlight for Trump to sit or to stand up on the stage and be Donald Trump to smile and maybe have a little shake as well.

00:43It was genius and it was designed to give the signal that this connection is so deep.

00:51Of course, there is money involved, but it's not only about money.

00:54But let's be honest, at the end, it's the Saudis who really were triumphant in what they wanted to show.

01:03It is their vision for a region built on economic cooperation, of a region built on, you know, building a future away from ideology,

01:15away from extremism, away from old ideas.

01:20And when Trump comes to the stage and speaks these important things, he just says what the Saudis were doing.

01:27The Saudis were doing the same thing.