Trump's Publisher Pal Puts Saudi Propaganda Magazine in U.S. Supermarkets
Source: Daily Beast
A nearly 100-page magazine published by Donald Trumps allies at American Media Inc. is providing a different kind of celebrity gossip than the American supermarket shopper is used to seeing. Its selling America on a fellow Trump ally, Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
MBS, as the millennial victor of last years Saudi palace power struggle is known, is currently on an overseas tour to cement his legitimacy. Its current stop is the United States, where MBS met last week with Trump ahead of checking the young-king-in-waiting PR boxes of Silicon Valley and Hollywood.
Greeting MBS on newsstands is a high-quality glossy advertisement for MBS, The New Kingdom. It retails for $13.99, has no ads and its 200,000 copies can be found in venues ranging from U.S. airports to WalMart, Safeway and Krogers raising questions about the magazines financing and its origins. The Saudis say they dont know how it came to be. AMI, which publishes The National Enquirer, insists it had no outside editorial or financial assistance, from the Trump administration or otherwise.
The New Kingdom doesnt feature any salacious gossip about MBS, but its coverage is just as breathless. Our Closest Middle East Ally Destroying Terrorism, the cover coos, sidestepping decades of Saudi Arabian financial support for terrorist groups and ideologues. It Disneyfies Saudi Arabia as the Magic Kingdom. Its easily the most uncritical encomium to MBS since Thomas Friedman.
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SunSeeker
(51,811 posts)hatrack
(59,606 posts)I think the guys who brought us 9/11 may want to, y'know, get out a bit more.
TheBlackAdder
(28,261 posts)It will be placed there, probably near the national Enquirer, implying that Sharia is slowly creeping into mainstream.
magicarpet
(14,222 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Quite the magical kingdom...but isn't cheap oil magical?
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,501 posts)Would not be a surprise at all.
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C_U_L8R
(45,040 posts)National Enquirer readers are so fond of Muslims???
lapfog_1
(29,243 posts)Come for the fashion
Stay for the beheadings
jmowreader
(50,601 posts)How soon after this hits the newsstands do you think we'll see news that the Saudis have bought Kushner's debt?
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Show how he put his own mother on house arrest ?