During a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) on Tuesday, President Donald Trump—whose love of “killer graphics” has been well-documented—presented two “middle school project-level” posters to relay his appreciation for the tens of billions of dollars of military equipment the kingdom has bought from the U.S. over the past several months, much of which has been used to slaughter innocents in Yemen.
“MbS is really a brutal bully responsible for bombing and starving Yemenis. He’s also gunning for a war with Iran, blaming Iran for the Middle East turmoil.”
—Medea Benjamin, CodePink”We make the best equipment in the world, there’s nobody even close, and Saudi Arabia’s buying a lot of this equipment,” Trump said, using a poster headlined “KSA Sales Pending” to highlight tanks, missile defense systems, and planes the U.S. has agreed to sell to Saudi Arabia over the past year. “We really have a great friendship, a great relationship.”
Watch a video of Trump’s presentation, courtesy of the U.S. State Department:
“Jobs! Who cares about the Yemeni civilians being killed by the Saudis with U.S. weapons,” Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, wrote in response to Trump’s enthusiastic run-down of American arms sales to the repressive kingdom. “Selling those weapons produces jobs! Trump’s ethical foreign policy.”
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