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And it would take yrs

Economist: “It’ll trickle down.” Reality: 💰 Rich: Owns 4 yachts 💸 Poor: Can’t afford rent, but hey—gas is 3¢ cheaper this week! Progress?

So it'll become Air Force One for like 6 months after millions of taxpayer dollars go into its retrofitting, and then Trump gets to keep it when he leaves office? Where the hell is DOGE when there's actually government waste?

The Qataris blind turd trump with all that goldish crap inside LOL and win win for them, let the plane that it's actually crap go, and having turd trump all happy with them LOL not even in a comedy LOL

Good thing we’re cutting SNAP so we can afford this vanity project of a used plane no one else wanted to buy.

I can’t help but wonder if the dropped charges against Boeing for their 737 Max crashes is a quid pro quo for the necessary retrofit to the new “free“ plane from Qatar. Stay tuned to see if Boeing does the modifications for free.

Waste, fraud and abuse at work.

NPR = propaganda wing of DNC

It’s gonna sit on a tarmac until Trump takes it for himself and if he makes it through the next three years

Bribe, Trump accepted a bribe from a foreign entity.

I honestly think he will pass from old age before he gets his grubby hands on it. Then America can use it to get all those innocent immagrents who were kidnapped back for due process. Then sink that monstrosity in the ocean and make it into a place for the fish to swim around.

This administration has created a revolution in the USA. Welcome to the new corrupt, third-world banana republic of North America. Venezuela looks like Switzerland compared to the US.

Taxpayers need answers on why we should pay to overhaul a used plane especially when two new Air Force One jets are being built. Also, once overhauled why would it just be “donated” to Trump post presidency…complete waste of money

The USA is a Fascist Christian Shithole now, thanks to MAGA.

I hope "nooo body drags their feet getting the plane ready" 😏 and it sits on the tarmac while trump sit in an old fuck home.

Betcha he’s ready to start using it like yesterday.

A bit over 100 days & another ever larger step along an ever more aggressive path of corruption, lies, & deceptions. Meanwhile the government is being dismantled & trump is stealing 10s or 100s of billions or even a trillion dollars if he can. All at the expense of the taxpayers...

Not going to happen. They would have to get another exactly like it. There needs to be two.

It's made from a recently developed Aluminium/Titanium compound which when subjected to solar radiation at 40,000 feet, the molecules rearrange and become chocolate.

No the US did not! Felon 47 did.

Trump will probably be dead from a heart attack or stroke BEFORE it's even done! WASTING MILLIONS to KISS Trump's A$$ while PEOPLE GO HUNGRY because OF HIM is APPALLING and an INSULT to ALL Americans!🤬

Corrupt Force One

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And who had to pay the taxes on the gift?

And then it goes to the Trump Presidential Library so he can keep using it with the hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer paid upgrades that no private individual should ever have?

On 28 January 2015, the Air Force announced that the Boeing 747-8 would be the next presidential aircraft. The US Government Accountability Office estimated the total cost at $3.2 billion, and the US Air Force's budget for the program projected to be nearly $4 billion. Hundreds of millions is less.

Obviously. That was never in doubt.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. That's Trump to a tee.

How do people not see this?

Good the next potus can throw it in the garbage

I just hope it takes at least 4 years and that the next president says, "Nope, not going to the Trump Library." Besides, we all know Trump won't do a library.

Trump ain't gonna get the chance to use it.

Great. This is the “great” that Drumpf is obsessed with. He is stupid yo accept the bribe plane that the Qataris have tried unsuccessfully to sell since 2020! ! The bribe-gift will be stripped down and rebuilt to AF1 security system standards. Will taken years! Then it will be Drumpf’s bookmobile $$

Excited to see this on fire when the revolution comes 🙄👊🏼

Be side it further highlights how dishonest this administration is and illustrates that they would have known that it can’t be used for the purposes stated and is merely a bribe.

It doesn’t justify it. It shows what a dumb smokescreen the whole idea is, retrofitting an old plane they’ve been trying to dump for years into AF1. It isn’t a gift to anyone but Trump, who’s too fucking dumb to realize they gave him the plane version of a Craigslist Camaro on blocks.

What a fucking waste of our money. What a moron.

They have the power, but not the balls.

8647!

You missed the point. trump gets to keep it. That's why he accepted it. This is an emolument. Congress, please hold a vote on whether to keep the Trojan Bird.

Trump can't read, why would he need a library? (Yes I realize what it actually is, no I'm not that stupid, it was a joke about people)

That's how Trump rolls. Purely transactional without any thought re: the checks and balances that supposedly make US democracy the be all, end all.

The taxpayers are footing this bill & that's WRONG. That plane won't be ready to fly as AF1 until AFTER that moron is out of office whereby he no longer needs all the protections afforded a sitting president. Let HIM use all the money he's stolen since January to fix up HIS plane.

The US should keep this "gift" and mothball it.

Without congressional approval. This fascist regime follows no laws. And we foot the bill.

One other thought, all the fittings will have to be gold plated in order to satisfy Donny Two Dolls. He is unlikely to like that, but if they were solid gold, the aircraft would be too heavy to get off the ground. Might make good static restaurant though.

From my personal knowledge of aviation, accepting this aircraft on to the civil register would cost a fortune. Making it Air Force One on the military fleet, well you might as well start working out how many zeroes to add to the cost.

Not with our money.. he has jets and two more are being built He wants the plane, then pay for it This is nothing but welfare for the rich along with his tax breaks for the very rich Conservative?

The clown accepted it for personal use, he has no intention of allowing it to be passed on to the next POTUS. Of course, the GOP will approve the funds, so the American taxpayers foot the bill to prepare it for him because he’s the biggest grifter and conman known to mankind.

They’ll spend hundreds of millions to retrofit it to certain standards, then stop halfway through to re retrofit it to the orange turds private standards. Trump just got a free billion dollar jet paid for by US taxpayers.

and guess who’s going to pay for it? you!

Disgusting!!!!

Why do I feel like the felon is not even gonna bother with all of that and he’s just gonna start flying it around.

If there is ever another Democratic president, I hope this thing becomes an underwater reef.

So disappointing. The most wasteful president who has ever lived.

There will be no “overhaul” and the jet will end up in trump’s back pocket. WAKE UP!!!

The US owns it, not the shitstain...unless he wants to pay for it, $400 million. All he has to do is threaten a few MAGATs in Congress and they will give him the funds.

This entire presidency is a constitutional violation. Add another one to the pile.

Toothless, spineless, lower life form MAGA majority in House and Senate.

Resist the better possible way, whether publicly or secretly, at ground level or at federal level. For us European, we have to stand firm against their threats, and enforce our excellent regulation against lies and abuses in the big internet companies.

I'm sure he thought he'd be riding in it next week.

Ditto the $5 million that taxpayers have to give traitor Ashli Babbit’s family?? BS

And still be faster and cheaper than waiting for Boeing to get odd its ass.

Especially knowing it's going to cost taxpayers more than it's worth to upgrade it to airforce one level. Meanwhile, they're gutting Medicaid and Medicare.

No. Trip and his acolytes have accepted it. Congress has not approved it. I wonder if being bribed by Qatar for present or future favourable considerations will be enough to start the booting process. It is in most, if not all, public service roles.

and when he takes his free gift home with him, what does the nation use as the next Air Force One? How much more will we have to pay for that new Air Force One? When will that new Air Force One be ready?

If it's STRIPPED and retrofitted to "Presidential security standards", it would have to be STRIPPED of ALL THAT before Trump would be able to access it as a personal aircraft after he left the presidency. I doubt he would be able to manage all the maintenance, storage and fueling costs on his own.

He can also hand out the renovation contract as part of another quid pro quo. Multi layer grifting! 😡

Ah...I see... We have money for this, but not SNAP and Medicaid. Well, sure... 😒

Pointless …

Kind of reminds me of a birthday gift a "Friend" once gave me and said that he made the first payment on it and I just needed to make the next three.

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bro like the shoes or

It’ll take years to upgrade it and make it super safe and secure, just in time to be handed over to the trump presidential library. By the way, who is paying for this massive and ridiculously expensive overhaul? Betcha he insists on filling up with jet fuel on his last day too.

What can we, say we’re whores at heart.

Meh. Trump should use an executive order to just skip all that battle hardening nonsense and fly it as-is. Then his first international trip in it should be to Russia or North Korea. I’m sure everything will be fine.

Costing billions and what do they do with the new ones in production here in USA? Accepting a foreign plane and nixing the made in America planes. All his rules apply to everyone else. Apple, hope you're suing over his new tariffs on you until you make the iPhone in America. This is I circus.

Well if it not ready I guess his dream to take it with him is out the window.

So hundreds of millions to upgrade a jet which he gets to keep. BTW when he’s no longer POTUS any sensitive gear will have to come back OUT, which should also cost millions.

The corruption in this administration is obscene. And, republicans just turn a blind eye. I honestly don't understand how they can live with themselves.

So we retrofit the Qatari plane for hundreds of millions and then still need the Boeing Air Force Ones on order now because the Qatari plane is going to Hair Furor's Monarchical Library if he leaves office. This is efficient how?

I would give it now if he would use it to fly away permanently.

next president (if we get one) to immediately impound it and scrap it, to recoup whatever costs go into upgrading and storing it.

All at the tax payer expense. Forget about people getting enough food to survive, yes in the United States.

If he manages to transfer it to himself before the next President is sworn in. the next President will have to sign an executive order for the US government to seize the aircraft due to it being property of the US. and even a president can not give themselves property of the US.

And Canada. And Greenland. And China. And the EU, Ukraine...the only one's not chipping in is Russia. Hmm. 😉

literally so what.

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I'm sure you're right, but, uh, sorry Donnie. The plane isn't like nuclear secret files he can box up and store in a Mar A Lago bathroom. The Pentagon people will get to "prepare" the plane for delivery...**haha**

No. Fly it into the WH before we spend ONE PENNY on it. It won’t be done until he leaves office, then you know damn right well what happens after that: Free luxury plane for Trump at the taxpayers’ expense? F*ck THAT shit.

Did doggie approve that???/ Everyone who said Trump will cut spending, do they realize now it was a myth??

It's a pile-on.

Stated anti-semitism is reason for defunding universities. Then accepts plane from Qatar -state sponsored terrorist supporter of Hamas who committed Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Anti-semitism is not the reason for fight with Universities. All embarrassing.

No Trump accepted it. It was a bribe or a payoff to a corrupt politician to the expense of the American citizens. We didn’t accept anything.

Maybe North Korea will pay for it?? Since we're taking help from depraved countries

$100,000 to fly from DC to FL...Increases his weekend trips to $2 billion!

The US has NOT officially accepted the plane. It requires congressional approval to accept the plane. Jesus Hussein Christ...the Zombie Fourth Estate just cannot stop failing over and over and over and over again....

Fraud, waste and abuse…..

So...the impacted rectum won't be able to use it during his term...and I say that hoping with crossed fingers that he'll be gone after that.

Hundreds of millions? More like at least a billion. The Air Force will need to drop this thing down the to the rivets to ensure there’s no threats buried in the parts. The interior will need to be gutted and replaced. Years and at least a billion. Good work Donny Boy.