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U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday (November 19, 2025) helium was designating Saudi Arabia arsenic a large non-NATO ally, arsenic helium hosted Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for a gala meal astatine the White House.
"Tonight, I'm pleased to denote that we're taking our subject practice to adjacent greater heights by formally designating Saudi Arabia arsenic a large non-NATO ally, which is thing that is precise important to them," Mr. Trump said.
"And I'm conscionable telling you present for the archetypal time, due to the fact that they wanted to support a small concealed for tonight," Mr. Trump said of the designation, which lone 19 different countries person antecedently received.
The heir to the throne, earlier, delighted Mr. Trump by announcing that helium was expanding the $600 cardinal Saudi concern helium promised Mr. Trump erstwhile the U.S. president visited the state successful May.
“We tin denote that we are going to summation that $600 cardinal to astir $1 trillion for investment,” Prince Mohammed said successful the Oval Office.
A grinning Mr. Trump asked him to corroborate the figure, to which the Saudi royal replied: “Definitely.”
The expansive welcome
Mr. Trump pulled retired each the stops for the Saudi Prince, giving him attraction usually reserved for a authorities sojourn to the White House, contempt the information that helium is not a caput of state.
He welcomed the Prince — who is wide known arsenic MBS — connected the South Lawn of the White House arsenic cannon occurrence boomed out, earlier they watched the noisy flypast by U.S. subject jets.
The 79-year-old Republican past showed the prince a caller assemblage of statesmanlike portraits by the Rose Garden — including 1 portraying his Democratic predecessor Joe Biden arsenic an autopen.
