On the November 18 edition of his Newsmax show, Rob Finnerty defended President Donald Trump's decision to host Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman despite the country’s alleged role in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Finnerty told his audience that “Trump is transactional, and 9/11 was almost 25 years ago,” before seeming to suggest that “Donald Trump normalizing relationships” with Saudi Arabia will help prevent “another 9/11.” However, just two weeks earlier, Finnerty attacked then-New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani for airing an ad in Arabic “just 24 years after Islamic terrorists flew commercial airplanes into the Twin Towers,” calling the language “the native tongue of the terrorists.”