Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who had once labelled Trump as a ‘disgrace’ and was retaliated by Trump as ‘dopey’, has said now that, it is time to put aside differences and work together for the a better bilateral relationship.
The Saudi billionaire prince has congratulated Donald Trump for his victory in the presidential election , after almost a year, they have clashed over Trump’s call to ban Muslims from entering the US.
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the 41st richest man in the world, tweeted that “America has spoken” and that past differences would be put aside.
“I have no problem with him right now, and I’m very happy to interact with him,” he said. “Candidate Trump, for sure, is not like the president-elect Trump and then president Trump… he is progressing in the right direction.”
The Prince believes that “things are very okay right now with Mr. Trump” and “all the skirmishes and all the misunderstandings will be soon left behind.”
“I did congratulate Mr. Donald Trump publicly by sending a tweet to him, it reached him last night through his daughter Ivanka and it reached him through our common friend Mr. Tom Barrack,” Alwaleed said.
“Mr. Barrack is already arranging for me to meet Mr. Trump, the President-elect, imminently in somewhere in America, so I think things are very okay right now with Mr. Donald Trump, President-elect of the United States.”
“I believe the main reason of Mr. Trump winning is really one word – it was the element of ‘change.’ I think people in the United States are fed up from the old system of when these two parties continue fighting, in America. I believe this is a world-wide syndrome, not only in the US, but also in Britain – you’ve seen Brexit, in France how the National Party is getting into the 20-30 percent range. So this is really a word spreading around the world,” Alwaleed said.
“Actually today, if you look at the ABC news tweet around 6 o’clock in the morning, it says that he took out and deleted all his tweets related to immigration of Muslims to the US. So, this was the main cause of my problems with him,” Alwaleed said.
“I have no problem at all with him right now and I’m happy to interact with him and I believe this will be the view of many people in the world and leaders in the world,” Alwaleed said.
By Premji
