Trump's favorite TV host comes out swinging against the president's latest moves
President Donald Trump's favorite TV host Mark Levin was unhappy with the opulent spectacle taking place during Trump's visit of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.
Levin has been an outspoken Trump supporter on his "Life, Liberty & Levin" show on Fox, and has hosted Trump for sit-down interviews. In April, Trump appointed Levin to the Homeland Security Advisory Council, led by Secretary Kristi Noem.
But Levin wasn't pulling punches when he posted his displeasure to social media over Trump's Middle Eastern trip.
"Saudi Arabia played a significant role on the 9/11 slaughter of our people," Levin wrote Wednesday. "I didn’t hear their Crown Prince even apologize once yesterday for what they did to us. And I know the 9/11 families are reeling from this."
Trump's own commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick lost 658 of his Cantor Fitzgerald financial services employees in the North Tower that day. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is also linked to the brutal 2018 killing of Saudi dissident and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, according to U.S. intelligence.
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Levin next took aim at Qatar and the infamous $400 million plane Trump wants to accept from the royal family.
"And Qatar protected the leader of the 9/11 attack from the FBI, before he was able to launch his war on America that killed our people. The debate about whether the plane is a legal gift is beside the point. Qatar is a terrorist regime that has murdered Americans. I cannot let bygones be bygones and those Americans who suffered the consequences of what these monarchies did cannot either. I can't stop thinking about all the innocent people who went to work that day, and were on those planes, and all the firefighters and police officers who died horrible deaths."
Levin continued, "As for Iran, if they get a nuclear weapon that’s on our generation. And our country will suffer the horrible consequences. These are terrorists. They don’t think like us and they don’t love life like us. We must have the guts and wisdom to protect ourselves."
Before he left Saudi Arabia Tuesday, Trump announced that the kingdom promised to invest $600 billion in the United States. Trump wants more, however, and is pushing the crown prince for $1 trillion.