President Donald Trump on Tuesday took aim at Saudi Arabia and its refusal to lead an increase in oil production, telling the UN that Opec members were “as usual ripping off the rest of the world”.
Speaking at the UN General Assembly in New York, Mr Trump told Opec that the US was “not going to put up with . . . these horrible prices much longer”. His warning came in a speech to the international body in which the US president also urged other countries to help squeeze the regime in Tehran by cutting oil imports from Iran.
“I don’t like it, and nobody should like it,” Mr Trump said about Opec. “We defend many of these nations for nothing and then they take advantage of us by giving us high oil prices, not good. We want them to stop raising prices, we want them to start lowering prices, and they must contribute substantially to military protection.”
