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Trump Announces Saudi Nuclear Deal, Adds Truth Social Poison-Pill Clause

8/7/2026

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President Donald Trump announced nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia and added a poison-pill clause on Truth Social the next day.
Ghostwriter Tony Schwartz told New Yorker Jane Mayer the book was fictional and called Trump a pathological liar with four-year-old attention span.
Washington Post reporters Steve Hendrix and Anthony Faiola wrote that the world no longer takes United States seriously, citing Iran’s Hormuz closure and Russia’s war in Ukraine.

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President Donald Trump announced nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia and added a poison-pill clause on Truth Social the next day.
Ghostwriter Tony Schwartz told New Yorker Jane Mayer the book was fictional and called Trump a pathological liar with four-year-old attention span.
Washington Post reporters Steve Hendrix and Anthony Faiola wrote that the world no longer takes United States seriously, citing Iran’s Hormuz closure and Russia’s war in Ukraine.