Wie Trump das Atomabkommen mit Saudi-Arabien weniger als 24 Stunden nach seiner Unterzeichnung auf den Kopf stellte

Excerpts from [article](https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/23/politics/saudi-nuclear-deal-trump-conservatives) by Kevin Liptak, Kristen Holmes, and Davis Winkie:

*On Wednesday afternoon, officials gathered at the downtown Washington headquarters of the Energy Department for an event more than two decades in the making: the signing of a civilian nuclear agreement between the United States and Saudi Arabia.*

*Two sets of American and Saudi flags were placed on stage and on the table where Energy Secretary Chris Wright was seated. A large screen beamed in his Saudi counterpart from Riyadh. After months of delay, the arrangement was finally signed.*

*The Saudis had won much of their wish list for the deal.*

*But as quickly as it was announced, it seemed to fall apart. Thursday morning, Trump said in a social media post that the deal was subject to a new condition: Saudi Arabia would have to join the Abraham Accords, an initiative dating back to Trump’s first administration that led to several Arab countries normalizing their diplomatic stance toward Israel.*

*Trump also denied that the agreement would allow uranium enrichment.*

*The president, according to a source familiar with the matter, was already angry over the unveiling of the deal, which Wright had not told Trump he would be announcing.*

 

*Trump’s frustration was then exacerbated, sources told CNN, after a flurry of criticism from experts and conservative media outlets.*

*This included skeptical coverage on his preferred channel, Fox News, and on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal that questioned why the deal was made absent a normalization agreement — something both outlets pointedly noted President Joe Biden had been seeking.*

*The new condition, which the White House insisted was long a goal of Trump’s and shouldn’t have shocked anyone, surprised the administration’s own nuclear negotiators, for whom the Abraham Accords condition was unexpected, two sources briefed on the matter told CNN.*

*As confusion took over, White House officials pointed the finger at their colleagues at the Energy Department, according to one source, who said the White House had asked the Energy Department not to roll the agreement out on Wednesday.*

*But Wright, who White House officials have complained in the past got over his skis, went ahead anyway, including in an interview on Fox Business.*

*The deal, in the mind of some Trump aides, was not finalized since letters required to be sent to Congress hadn’t gone out. And the president and many of his senior staffers were livid at the decision to roll out the deal, the source said.*

 

*[…] Prince Mohammed has plainly stated he cannot agree to diplomatic ties with Israel without a viable pathway to Palestinian statehood.*

*Yet Trump reimposed that condition in a 7:52 a.m. social media post, mere minutes after the Fox panel discussed the issue.*

*Leavitt said later that morning that Trump had not spoken to the powerful crown prince — the kingdom’s de facto leader — in the hours before or after his abrupt announcement of new conditions on the deal.*

*She suggested the terms should not come as a surprise.*

*“The president has spoken directly with the Saudis about this in numerous conversations in the past, and the administration will continue to engage in those conversations,” she said.*

Every day, another country learns it is useless to make agreements with the US, they will be changed after the fact and reneged on on a whim.

Trump is well know for changing deals after he agrees to them. My guess is Trump is having his White House minions throw Wright under the bus to cover his butt. There is no way he announces, or agrees to, a deal this big without Trump’s go ahead.