{"id":5434,"date":"2025-05-13T10:09:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T10:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/?p=5434"},"modified":"2025-05-13T11:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T11:40:20","slug":"saudi-fighter-jets-escort-air-force-one-as-trump-arrives-to-meet-crown-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/13\/saudi-fighter-jets-escort-air-force-one-as-trump-arrives-to-meet-crown-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi fighter jets escort Air Force One as Trump arrives to meet crown prince"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/saudi-arabia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saudi Arabian<\/a> fighter jets appeared to escort Air Force One as President Donald Trump arrived in the country on Tuesday for a meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Air Force One about to go wheels down in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with Saudi F-15 fighter jets bringing us in. On behalf of President Trump, THANK YOU!&#8221; White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino posted on X while sharing a video of jets flying alongside the U.S. president&#8217;s plane.<\/p>\n<p>There were reportedly at least five jets \u2014 \u00a0two jets flew on the left side of AF1 and three flew on the right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-targets-massive-investments-first-middle-east-trip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TRUMP TARGETS MASSIVE INVESTMENTS IN FIRST MIDDLE EAST TRIP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scavino also shared a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Scavino47\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">video<\/a> of the crown prince greeting Trump on a purple carpet after he landed at King Khalid International Airport. The two leaders had a coffee ceremony shortly after greeting one another.<\/p>\n<p>The president brought a slew of administration leaders with him, including Secretary of State <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/marco-rubio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marco Rubio<\/a>, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Energy Secretary Chris Wright.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trumps-saudi-talks-houthi-ceasefire-strain-ties-netanyahu-ahead-middle-east-trip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TRUMP STRAINS RELATIONSHIP WITH NETANYAHU AS MIDDLE EAST POLICY INCREASINGLY ISOLATES ISRAEL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump arrived<\/a> at the Royal Court in Riyadh at around 5:30 a.m. EST where he was welcomed with a ceremony and then participated in greetings with Saudi officials and U.S. guests. Trump is expected to have lunch and meetings over a three-hour period.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-defends-qatar-jumbo-jet-offer-troubled-boeing-fails-deliver-new-air-force-one-fleet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TRUMP DEFENDS QATAR JUMBO JET OFFER AS TROUBLED BOEING FAILS TO DELIVER NEW AIR FORCE ONE FLEET<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The president is also slated to travel to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabian fighter jets appeared to escort Air Force One as President Donald Trump arrived in the country on Tuesday for a meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. &#8220;Air<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/13\/saudi-fighter-jets-escort-air-force-one-as-trump-arrives-to-meet-crown-prince\/\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<svg class=\"icon icon-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\"> <use href=\"#icon-arrow-right\" xlink:href=\"#icon-arrow-right\"><\/use> <\/svg><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saudi fighter jets escort Air Force One as Trump arrives to meet crown prince<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5435,"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434\/revisions\/5435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}