That did not happen, and instead Trump delivered a speech that many pundits on both sides of the aisle said was better than expected, even if in a very strict sense, and even if it was full of double-faced rhetoric, ignoring the Saudi role in the creation of ISIS and the Saudi crisis, and instead slamming Iran and Syria as the gulty parties for the global terrorism epidemic.This is also known as distraction from the real culprit, who on Sunday sat a few meters to the left of Trump, yet would pay hundreds of billions to the US MIC, so was not named.

Clocking in at just over 3,400 words, here is a full transcript of what Trump told Saudi Arabia and the world on Sunday afternoon.