While addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos one day later, Trump said that he will ask MBS, whom he called a “fantastic guy”, to round up the $600bn pledge to “around $1trn”. Trump asserted that the Saudis would do this “because we’ve been very good to them”.

Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G US' newly inaugurated President Donald Trump is breaking traditions one after the other right from the beginning of his second term. It began with the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio holding his first bilateral meeting with the Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar,