Trump says he will press OPEC and Saudi Arabia to slash oil prices

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would call on Saudi Arabia and OPEC to lower oil prices, claiming that the war in Ukraine would end if prices dropped.

“I am also going to ask Saudi Arabia and OPEC to bring down the cost of oil,” Trump said in a virtual appearance at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. “You got to bring it down. … If the price came down, the Russia-Ukraine war would end immediately.”