I just drove past the White House right before the flyover. I don’t think any foreign leader has been received by this 2nd Trump admin like MBS has been today at the White House. It’s a big circus on Constitution Avenue.
Trump: I’m very proud of the job he’s done. What he’s done is incredible in terms of human rights.

Q: Is it appropriate for your family to be doing business in Saudi Arabia while you're president. Is that a conflict of interest? And your royal highness, the US intel community concluded you orchestrated the brutal murder of a journali---
TRUMP: Who are you with?
Q: ABC News
TRUMP: Fake news
Trump: "I have nothing to do with the family business. I have left and devoted 100% of my energy. What my family does is fine. They do business all over. They've done very little with Saudi Arabia actually. They could do a lot."
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
MBS: On the journalist, it's painful to hear anyone losing his life for no real purpose or it's been painful for us in Saudi Arabia. We did all the right steps of investigation.
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Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
“This reporter behaved in an inappropriate and unprofessional way towards her colleagues on the plane. If you’re going to give it, you have to be able to take,” said the White House.
Gift LinkThe Trump administration will provide a HIV-prevention drug to countries most affected by the disease in a push to end the spread of the virus that causes AIDS, but won't provide it to South Africa, which has the world’s largest HIV-positive population.
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Trump HIV prevention plan shuts out South Africa — the nation most affected
Administration officials say South Africa has “significant means” to fund a promising new drug, lenacapavir, on its own. Critics call the move self-defeating.
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