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mighty generous of them to palm off their white elephants

It’s 13years old and if I was Qatar I’d remove all the gold Nic-nacks, plus a billion to make it AF1 secure …..this is like a free puppy, there is no such thing, Don likes the shiny objects

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If the plane will be going to the #convictedfelon why doesn’t he pay for whatever it needs? If he doesn’t want to do that then he should not accept it! The president of the United States is an elected official not a King & should not assume the costs that come with it!

Holy shit

still in the works i believe. i wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a slow process. i know nothing about buying ferries but i feel like there’s still a lot more work that needs to be done.

I knew it was nothing but a thrift item.

jfc

Suckered into buying a lemon from a shady private seller. The art of the deal?

It’s their version of unloading an unwanted timeshare property on the US.

They ran out of showroom space—the bridge that nobody wants to buy takes up too much room!

We would be paying for the maintenance, fuel and retro fitting. Billions in taxpayer money for this fucked up asshole

This is hilarious

Sounds about right for him/them and the Trump-Hamas Force One.

I hope the doors fall off.

The reason he getting this plain, if you remember the news reporter who was KILL by this AREB Prince ,Trump clear this guy now its pay back ???

So, we get a free 400 million dollar jet that costs us taxpayers 600 million to make it usable to safely fly POTUS. What a deal. Kind of like giving kids free tickets to the circus only to have their parents have to buy their own admission at adult prices.

Enjoy your flight Mr President

Some people lose all sense of morality when private jet rides are involved www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Does Mar-a-Lago have a big enough bathroom to park the plane in after his term when he takes it from us.

Trump’s a fool. bsky.app/profile/robi...

Not to mention the hundreds of millions to retrofit it up to AF1 standards

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I've been watching several House and Senate GOP today trying their best to justify Trump accepting the "palace in the sky" $400mil jumbo jet from Qatar. I guess they got their daily talking points from the White House this morning.

A trashy-classy hand-me-down no one wants or can afford. And then there is the aircraft.

Only 89 seats? So no press?

Someone should tell donnie that the plane isn’t good enough for the Emir so he’s passing it down to the US as a charitable donation.

Call sign: White Elephant One

Wow! This should be all over the news! It’s definitely worth knowing!

Let's not forget the hundreds of millions in upgrades needed for it to be usable by an American president... which go with it when Trump takes ownership back for his personal use. No wonder Trump's likes the idea. More stealing from taxpayer's pockets as a bonus!

Republicans: ya. That plane thing and crypto scam where foreign entities are dumping billions in his pocket. Seems concerning. It raises eyebrows.But? And being BFF with a murderous dictator who funds Hamas and ordered the dismemberment of an American reporter. Is concerning. It raises eyebrows.but?

Qataris fuel terrorism www.thefp.com/p/how-qatar-...

Nope. Tues. evening news was the first I heard of this abomination.

The Qatar 747 cost $400m Average cost of a Barbie doll $10 $400m could buy 40m dolls US population 6-10 yrs old girls ~ 10m That = 4 dolls/child. Trump said “She could be very happy with 2 or 3 or 4 or 5.” So Donald buy 4 dolls for every girl in the USA MABA-Make America Barbie Again

Does that let them write it off?

I love the last line in the article: "I can’t imagine Qatar will find a buyer for this plane, so one has to wonder who this 747-8 will be gifted to. 😉" We now know.

“Give it to Mikey. Mikey will eat anything.”

Great reporting and not at all a surprise…Trump is a ‘Grade A’ baffoon.

Hahahaha, Krasnov such a 'BIG BEAUTIFUL DIK'

There’s a fool in every crowd but in this case this government! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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This is all so....dare I say, corrupt!

4 gas guzzling engines.

It’s Free! As long as you pay all the fuel and maintenance… and all the extra staff needed

is it even going to be delivered or parked at some desert hangar ... 🛩🅿️

The difference is that crows are also smart.

BLOCK THE BRIBE. Trump’s acceptance of Qatar’s plane-bribe (plain-bribe) has been deemed “legal” by Attorney General Pam Bondi who ruled FOR the bribe and AGAINST the Constitution. Bondi was employed as a lobbyist by Qatar prior to her appointment as Attorney General. A 3-way criminal collusion?

LOL Trump is getting sloppy seconds!!

I will be annoyed if the White House press corps fails to ask Trump on camera why Qatar is gifting him such rubbish. Doesn't he deserve a shiny new plane as his bribe?

so classic.

Yep. It's a white elephant.

He is such a low life, trashy mountain of horseshit… God dammit!! Like some carnival barker from a shitty old cowboy movie sellin snake oil. Greaseball extraordinaire! He fkn wishes he wasn’t trash… but he can’t hide 🙈 it!

Oh, it's a shitty Atlantic writer. But, this link! onemileatatime.com/qatari-royal...

Maybe the jet isn’t travel-worthy. All the more reason to let him test-fly it back to the US. 🤞

A white elephant from the Qataris.

Great solution to this problem. Why should we, the taxpayers, be saddled with paying all the costs. He wants it, he maintains it out of his own funds.

Dump the Jet and Dump Trump! Then you can dump the GOP!

But at the taxpayers expense, so not quite the sucker. Thank the MAGotts for voting for him

Savor the moment. His greed will be his undoing.

They don’t do anything for free.

Just an example how much MbS and Qatar disrespect mock and exploit trump and the US. Look for Jared Kushner's role in this scam. Because hw is a Saudi agent.

Ahahahahaha!

Are of the lemon. Trump must have forgot to kick the tires.

Our Constitution CLEARLY says the president cannot receive gifts from a foreign country. Now he's stating how shitty the Air Force One jet is (so tough, right?) while he accepts a $400 million dollar gift telling all of us oh sorry you're going to suffer while my tariffs go into effect. F U TRUMP!!

tRump is the stupidest stupid biggly looser.

Trump made a stupid and illogical deal?!?

hand-me-down

Did anyone think to kick the tires?

don't feel badly: you were only the *next to last* to know. I being the lastest-last....

Let’s refer to the plane as the Jamal Khashoggi Express.

It's a by-now-standard tactic with Trump: do something you were gonna do anyway, more loudly. 🇨🇦: fight the scourge of fentanyl, but call the guy in charge a "czar" 🇬🇧: buy Boeing planes they wanted anyway, but say it was part of a deal 🇶🇦: get rid of an unwanted plane… by giving it to Trump

Obviously he likes exotic animals. Come on…

Crows and Mocking Jays like shiney objects too.

So, the ‘gift’ had been for sale for five years. Apparently no one wanted it and it was given to the only jackwagon who would take it off their hands. It’s like they left it on the sidewalk with a ‘free’ sign. Enjoy your 13 yr old, unsellable ‘gift’.

Whoever told you might have been thinking of Air Force 2, which is a 2-engined 757.

If America is so "great again" with Trump, why does another country have to provide a plane for our President? Riddle me that, Donny

🤣🤣🤣 the corruption and the stupidity just never ends...

The whole “Trump is wasting millions in taxpayer money to upgrade his eventual personal plane” is a very underreported aspect of this.

White elephant that needs to be raised from the dead at taxpayer expense. Two planes already being built. Send it back!!

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To upgrade the plane, it will need to be deconstructed, refit and rebuilt. It will take about two years and $100’s of million to complete.

That plane probably hasn't flown or had an annual for over 5 years. Trump spent a fortune getting his 757 back flying. The interior looks like his NY tower penthouse with everything made of gold. He could give a shit how much it would cost to replace AF1.

And the last one for sale didn’t sell so they gifted it to Erdogan, which tracks. Trump is our Erdogan

Has anyone kicked the tires on this baby? It’s a sweet ride, low mileage.

There’s always a story behind the story, a con, a grift, whatever, it’s the most corrupt regime ever imagined here

Reminds me of the time I got a free kitten.

Nice. Trump and Erdogan can be twinsies

I read that the Air Force would pick up the tab for all costs before, during and after Trump's presidency.

Perfect.

Beauiful plane, if Trump can't have the plane, can I have it?

Thank you. i didn't know about this. Really puts things in perspective.

You mean the Palace in the Sky‽

We are being played for suckers and losers. Or rather, Trump is being played.

Hopefully someone will tell him.🙄

Just like Melanie was a used gift from Putin .

And BTW, love your podcast. Makes me feel briefly sane...

A foist. Curb Your Enthusiasm did a whole episode on foists.

I think it’s a distraction, also, to see what to keep us from seeing what else he’s doing in the Middle East.

Qatar gets the BIG LAUGH in LIFE. Uses Trumps greed and ego against him and gets to dump an ALBATROSS PLANE on the American tax payer. Trump will be dead by the time that plane is fit to fly after being retrofitted. Don’t you just getting sick and tired of thinking you won Donald?

THE GREATEST TRUMP GRIFT EVER. Trump accepts plane, American tax payers store, maintain + retrofits Trumps plane at cost in the BILLIONS$ Trump leaves office, Claims ownership; he’s above the law +flies off into the sunset before dying a lonely death with family begging donors for funeral expense

The very definition of a White Elephant. A gift you can't afford the upkeep on. German luxury cars, yachts, mansions, etc. No thanks!

We should let Trump have this plane now. But, as it's full of Chinese surveillance, and doesn't have all the defensive features and hardened comms etc, Trump is not allowed to fly in it while he is President. He continues to fly in AF1. Trump has to pay personally for its upkeep, storage etc.

This whole plane thing smells to high heaven!

"We would be stupid not to take it"......

Would be useful to see a write up of the costs to use that jet and to house it. Are they going to have a runway at the Trump Library? Doubt it so I guess it's going to be somewhere else?

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Oh No—our glorious orange leader coming in second to Ergodan in the Dictator Competition!

Poor Trump getting sloppy seconds.

Putin has a Trans-Siberian train for Trump. Orban has a steamer ship gift for him. Germany will be gifting the Graf Zeppelin. China gifts a People's Liberation aircraft from the 1980s ....

Here's some pics and video of the inside of the 747 Turkey got. Looks like it'd be a bug rich environment. 🤔 www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/trave...

Issue resolved, he'll never settle for second best! 😏