Trump says Saudi Arabia is 'disintegrating'

Saudi Arabia is “disintegrating”, US President Donald Trump said in an interview released on Friday, which is likely to offend the kingdom, as it suffers missile and drone strikes from Yemen’s Houthis.

Trump passed judgment on Saudi Arabia, one of the US’s closest allies, in an interview with Stephen A Smith, boasting he could destroy Iran in three days by attacking civilian infrastructure but that Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states have asked him not to because of their own weaknesses.

“If I want to take them out, I hit their [energy] in one day. Their energy is gone. In one day, their bridges are gone, and in one day, their manufacturing capability is gone. It would only take me three days, one day each,” Trump said.