{"id":379467,"date":"2018-10-03T08:20:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T07:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-i-told-saudi-king-he-wouldnt-last-without-us-support\/"},"modified":"2018-10-03T08:20:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T07:20:19","slug":"presstv-i-told-saudi-king-he-wouldnt-last-without-us-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-i-told-saudi-king-he-wouldnt-last-without-us-support\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018I told Saudi king he wouldn&#8217;t last without US support\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>President Donald Trump says he has warned Saudi Arabia&#8217;s King Salman he would not last in power &#8220;for two weeks&#8221; without US military support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We protect Saudi Arabia. Would you say they&#8217;re rich. And I love the King, King Salman. But I said &#8216;King \u2014 we&#8217;re protecting you \u2014 you might not be there for two weeks without us \u2014 you have to pay for your military,'&#8221; Trump said to cheers at a rally in Southaven, Mississippi on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, however, did not say when he made such remarks to the Saudi monarch.<\/p>\n<p>This comes a few days after the Republican president called on Riyadh to increase its military spending, with an eye on more weapons sales to the &#8220;rich&#8221; kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love Saudi Arabia. They are great, King Salman, I spoke with him this morning. I said, king, you have got trillions of dollars. Without us, who knows what\u2019s going to happen.\u00a0&#8230;. With us they are totally safe. But we don\u2019t get what we should be getting,&#8221; he said at a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/03\/575896\/US-Saudi-Arabia-Donald-Trump-King-Salman\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump says he has warned Saudi Arabia&#8217;s King Salman he would not last in power &#8220;for two weeks&#8221; without US military support. &#8220;We protect Saudi Arabia. Would you say they&#8217;re rich. And I love the King, King Salman. But I said &#8216;King \u2014 we&#8217;re protecting you \u2014 you might not be there for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-379467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}