The Latest: Saudi Arabia not confirming Trump's 2M barrels

[DonViejo]

Source: Associated Press



49 minutes ago

8:50 a.m.

Saudi Arabia says that King Salman has spoken to President Donald Trump, but gave no mention of the 2 million barrels of extra production the American leader tweeted about earlier in the day.

A statement on the state-run Saudi Press Agency on Saturday afternoon said: “During the call, the two leaders stressed the need to make efforts to maintain the stability of oil markets and the growth of the global economy.”

It added that there also was an understanding that oil-producing countries would need “to compensate for any potential shortage of supplies.” It did not elaborate.

Trump tweeted earlier Saturday that he has received assurances from King Salman that his kingdom would increase oil production, “maybe up to 2,000,000 barrels,” in response to turmoil in Iran and Venezuela.

Read more: https://apnews.com/8054651dc2ef4200bf89336dd29d4505

[beachbum bob]

1. trump has and always will always make shit up...

[TreasonousBastard]

2. It is entirely possible that Salman has figured out that he can promise Trump anything...

Trump will then brag about it and forget about it in a day or two.

[exboyfil]

4. Or Trump just pulled it out of his butt

Amazingly I trust the word of a Saudi despot more than my own President.

How we have fallen.

[dalton99a]

3. The compulsion to lie is overwhelming

[progree]

5. As oil prices (and gasoline prices) ascend

[keithbvadu2]

6. Donald has to go back to their ritual

Link to tweet

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[LudwigPastorius]

7. If it came out of Trump's mouth,...

it's steaming horseshit.

[roamer65]

8. Saudi Aramco can't increase production by that much.

Ghawar extract is already majority sea water. Not gonna happen.