Trump Seems to Really Believe Saudi Prince Will Invest $1 Trillion in the US

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has raised his country’s US investment target from the $600 billion commitment he announced during Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia in May to a headline-grabbing $1 trillion, according to a statement on the White House website.

The new figure, confirmed by the White House in a statement during the Saudi crown prince’s trip to Washington, dramatically expands the scale of the pledged investment but remains vague in practice, with no breakdown, timetable, or sector-by-sector plan, leaving key questions unanswered about how and when such funds would actually be deployed.

During his visit to Washington, the crown prince took part in multiple events with the president that brought together top US executives from across major industries, including Elon Musk of Tesla, Jensen Huang of Nvidia, and senior leaders from companies such as Chevron, Cisco, Qualcomm, Google, Boeing, and Pfizer.

The $1 trillion would be made up of prospective deals in major arms contracts (including a flagship F-35 package), artificial intelligence partnerships involving firms such as Nvidia and AMD alongside data centers and cloud infrastructure, and agreements on critical minerals and civil nuclear cooperation that Washington would present as key to securing US supply chains, according to the White House fact sheet.

During the investment forum, President Donald Trump announced that some US–Saudi deals were being signed with a total value of approximately US $270 billion, marking a further step in the deepening economic partnership between the United States and Saudi Arabia.

He presented these agreements as part of a broader agenda to bring high-paying jobs and strategic industry cooperation back to the US, spanning sectors such as defence, technology and infrastructure. Trump highlighted the scale of those deals by saying: «We’re told that $270 billion in agreements and sales are being signed between dozens of companies, and that’s just happening today.»

While the headline number of US $270 billion was cited, the administration offered few details on timing, exact terms or sector-specific commitments, which leaves major questions about how and when these deals will materialize.