A day after the agreement was signed, the president laid out a new requirement: that the Saudis normalize relations with Israel.

The event marked the White House’s latest attempt to broker an Israeli pullout from southern Lebanon, where Israel has been fighting Hezbollah.

The president said the U.S. will impose a 20 percent fee on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz despite official assertions that fees would violate international law.

The president embraced the alliance in a meeting Wednesday, extolling member nations’ defense spending and saying nothing about the Danish territory, officials said.

It was a dramatic departure from Trump’s more acerbic tone toward Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whom he once derided as ungrateful.

For a second straight day, the U.S. military attacked Iranian targets overnight and Iran struck back, targeting U.S. bases in Bahrain and Kuwait.