US President Trump confirms United States will sell F-35s to Saudi Arabia

Trump confirmed the sale during a press conference in the White House ahead of an upcoming meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

United States President Donald Trump said he plans to approve the sale of US-made F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia on Monday, speaking a day before he hosts Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for a day of diplomacy.

“I will say that we will be doing that,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “We’ll be selling the F-35s.”

A sale would mark a significant policy shift, potentially altering the military balance in the Middle East and testing Washington’s definition of maintaining Israel’s “qualitative military edge.”

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