First Lady Melania Trump made an interesting wardrobe choice on Tuesday night, Melania was spotted donning an all green dress as she attended a special White House dinner for the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Many speculated she wore the green dress as a sign of respect to the Prince because the National colors of Saudi Arabia is green. The New York Times reported more on Melania’s outfit choice: There were many ways in which President Trump used the pageantry of office to demonstrate the new friendship between the United States and Saudi Arabia during Tuesday’s visit by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the White House. Mr. Trump rolled out the red carpet. He organized a military flyover. He threw a black-tie quasi-state dinner — the first such official dinner of his second term — complete with soccer stars and tech and Wall Street billionaires. And he captured it all for posterity with various photo ops. But perhaps the most unexpected reflection of the new special relationship between the two countries came not from the president but from the first lady. Melania Trump has, after all, been a somewhat scant presence in the administration. She is often not in the White House. When she appears at major public events, she has a tendency to wear a hat that hides half her face, as she did at the inauguration and during a recent state visit to Britain. She often seems more interested in the decorative side of her job than in being a diplomatic tool, and she defines decorative as she likes rather than as history has dictated. And yet there she was on Tuesday night wearing a strapless green gown taking her place next to her husband to greet the crown prince. Before you get excited: No, it was not the green of the climate change movement. (This was not a potential trolling-the-husband moment.) It was a cadmium green awfully close to the green of the Saudi flags that had flown next to the American flags to welcome the crown prince earlier that day. And the color wasn’t the only significant aspect of the dress. Made of jersey coated to resemble leather, ruched down the front and currently selling for $3,350, the gown was by the Lebanese designer Elie Saab — a designer who a year ago had held one of the largest fashion shows ever in the Middle East, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Take a look: The First Lady @MELANIATRUMP chose a beautiful green dress in the exact same shade as the Saudi flag, which stands for peace, and its design also matches the Kingdom’s emblem, the palm tree, which represents generosity and hospitality. Such a nice and respectful tribute to the… pic.twitter.com/E2lZxOrfOi — Bdoor (@Bd00r_ksa) November 19, 2025 Va Va Voom look at our First Lady Melania. She is gorgeous in the green gown. Green is her color. Hope she has the emerald earrings on with this. Stunning! @FLOTUS pic.twitter.com/nBplM0bZOi — TJ Lady MAGA Rebel H₂O (@TJberetta) November 19, 2025 Melania makes headlines again with green gown pic.twitter.com/pincwxVDsG — MAG1775 (@realMAG1775) November 19, 2025 AP reported more on the Crown Prince’s visit to the White House: A jovial President Donald Trump held a warm and friendly meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman at the White House, packed with plenty of handshakes and back pats. He brushed aside questions about Saudi Arabia’s human rights record, praised the prince for his statesmanship and announced hundreds of billions of dollars in new Saudi investment in the United States. The White House rolled out plenty of pomp for the Saudi royal on Tuesday, dispatching fighter jets that the two leaders watched from a red carpet, parading out an honor guard on horseback and giving a lavish dinner in the East Room. In a sitdown in the Oval Office that took place just seven years after Prince Mohammad was implicated by U.S. intelligence agencies in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Trump and the prince took numerous questions from reporters — one of whom was repeatedly insulted by Trump — on everything from commerce to the sale of advanced F-35 fighter jets to Riyadh. Here is a look at some of the takeaways from the visit: Trump had previewed his decision to sell F-35s on Sunday but formalized it before the prince on Tuesday when he said the approval was complete and that Israel’s fears about maintaining its qualitative military edge in the Middle East would be addressed. Details of the deal were not immediately clear, but some in the Pentagon and other agencies have opposed the sale because of the potential for advanced technology being shared with China, which also has close ties with Saudi Arabia. “As far as I’m concerned, I think they are both at a level where they should get top of the line,” Trump said of Saudi Arabia and Israel, which already has F-35s. “Israel’s aware and they’re going to be very happy.” Israeli officials have suggested that they would not be opposed to Saudi Arabia getting F-35s as long as Saudi Arabia normalizes relations with Israel under the Abraham Accords framework. The Saudis have said they would join the Abraham Accords but only after there is a credible and guaranteed path to Palestinian statehood, a position Prince Mohammad repeated in the meeting. “We want to be part of the Abraham Accords, but we want also to be sure that we secure a clear path of two-state solution,” he said. “We’re going to work on that to be sure that we come prepared for the situation as soon as possible to have that.” Trump also said the U.S. and Saudi Arabia would complete a broader agreement on military and security issues during the visit and that the U.S. would proceed with a civilian nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia, about which Israel also has raised concerns. The two nations also signed a deal that calls for the Saudis to purchase nearly 300 tanks from the U.S. At the dinner Tuesday night, Trump announced he was designating Saudi Arabia as a major non-NATO ally, a largely symbolic move that gives foreign partners some defense, trade and security cooperation benefits.