Summary
Trump lashed out at bipartisan critics after reports revealed he plans to accept a $400 million Boeing 747-8 jet from Qatar for use as Air Force One.
In a Truth Social post, Trump dismissed concerns as “world class losers” complaining about a transparent gift. Qatar stated the plane is under legal review between its Ministry of Defense and the Pentagon.
Critics, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Chris Murphy, and Rep. Jamie Raskin, accused Trump of corruption and violating the Constitution.
Even allies like Laura Loomer led the MAGA pushback to the jet deal.
Loses his mind? Well, that’s redundant.
Cannot lose what you don’t have …
Alternative headline: “Spoiled child throws tantrum when told No.”
Trump is a disgrace
Trump is a insider threat.
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Wait… The plane is transparent? Wow! We should accept that sucker like now and figure out how they did it! LOL.
Trump is Wonder Woman
I hear the wonder lasso is just 3mm long and looks like a mushroom.
Transparent Aluminum
I got some. McMaster sells it as transparent ceramic.
Computer, computer
That’s a thing and it’s dope.
Those Amazon’s have some good tech.
That constitution is becoming a real barrier for Trump.
Is it though?
But I waaaant it!
Don’t…care…how…
I want it NOW!
So trump now owes Qatar a 400 billion dollar favor, it’s that simple
(For those not getting it, it’s a jab at doge mixing up million and billion)
He absolutely DOES owe them 400 billion now.
To quote Kurt Hansen from Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty. “To make billions, you first need to grease the palms of others with millions”.
Traitors to the Constitution & rule of law applied universally should get only gifts of a short rope and a long drop
A short drop and a sudden stop is the phrase I believe
People just aren’t considering the arguments in favor of accepting it, such as how cool it would be to receive what might be the biggest bribe in the history of bribery.
There’s sadly been much bigger bribes.
Even within his family.
It’s certainly the biggest one a president has openly accepted. By, like, 400 million dollars.
I was thinking the biggest single item.
Depends. Is the 2 billion deal for classified information one item, or divided by bits of intel?
the biggest bribe in the history of bribery.
Didn’t somewhere get a large wooden horse once?
Same thing; this one also carries enemies hell-bent on sacking and conqueroring. This is just an homage.
Pretty horse, though.
It likely also has the best always-on one-way communication link to Qatar that money can buy.
Besides the obvious corruption, it’s a national security issue. I’m not an aircraft designer, but I’m pretty sure there’s quite a bit of electronics aboard that craft. Pretty easy to slip in a few listening devices.
That was my first though, that airplane is gonna have a direct line to the government of Qatar
If nothing else you can basically guarantee it will be traceable
The more you think about it, the stupider the idea is.
Besides the obvious security problems, Air Force 1 is to a regular plane what a Formula One racer is to a regular car. Someone else pointed out things like counter-surveillance measures, refueling, etc etc.
It would be twice as expensive to retrofit it.
Air Force 1 is to a regular plane what a Formula One racer is to a regular car
Achshually. Air Force 1 is used to refer to any Air Force aircraft the president travels on. That’s why it’s taken off more times than it’s landed.
=golf clap=
And those planes aren’t normal off the lot planes, they’re especially not normal off the lot planes “gifted” by the Saudi’s so what’s your point, just felt being pedantic would get you some attention?
To be fair, the trump crew don’t observe any real security anyway, so all of the more competent competent competitors likely already know our secrets.
I mean, assuming that trump doesn’t just tweet them out, he’d absolutely sell our secrets for some graft.
Or members of his cabinet just accidentally add foreign agents to classified chats…
Not to mention the refit to include all the secure communication equipment Air Force One has. Also ECM, active countermeasures, NBC equipment, refuelling, etc.
Realistically, it would probably cost more to retrofit a plane than to just build it from scratch.
It is a decade or more to build.
And then remove part of it a year later when it transfers to him
Why does only NBC get their equipment added and not the other TV stations
Because that’s the station The Apprentice was on. /s
Incase people don’t know NBC stands for Nuclear, Biological, Chemical.
I’m sure Qatar sees him saying “yeah, then it’ll be mine” and are thinking ‘nooo, we wanted all the presidents to use it…’
Then you’re not up to speed…
January 2029 it transfers to the “trump presidential library” so he can keep using it.
It’s not even to “the office” it’s a personal gift to trump.
I’m often not up to speed. I guess we just wait to see what this buys them?
It’s the same country that was/is bribing Eric Adams…
They have so much oil money (exported 24 billion worth in 2022) that they just throw money at anyone that will take it.
400 million just isn’t that much money to them where they need to have an immediate payout.
They’re in the top 10 wealthiest royal families, and that’s just what legal money is on the books
Or a shutoff switch.
But, would that be so bad?
Let him have the plane. Its probably sabotaged anyway.
Even better, it’s a Boeing.
I’d guess it would be less dramatic than that. Probably mics and bugs throughout it so they can get some good data on him.
Since Qatar knows it will be fully disassembled to find bugs, but also has effectively limitless unsupervised time with it, there will probably be some crazy advanced, near-undetectable bugs in the plane components themselves.
Yeah, we’re all aware of the wonders of Qatari technology, such as their mad-rape-scheduling iPhone app.
Um what??
I’m not worried about Qatar, I’m worried about Boeing, cuz THEY DO HAVE the tech.
I get that it’s an easy dunk, but the iterations and options for effective spycraft using freely available technology and knowledge are effectively limitless, when you have weeks of exclusive, unsupervised access to something as big and complex as a plane.
Makes me think of the cocaine they plasticize and make into the suitcase it’s self, so it’s a perfectly normal suitcase in every way except the plastic is impregnated with coke… same type of thing is completely possible here
Cameras and WiFi sniffers would be very useful. Not so sure about audio.
… WIFI sniffer would be next to useless vs audio.
Toddlers don’t like hearing the word “no”
This can be applied to everything he does, it’s the begin end the end of all the issues with that man. His ego. And it’s just going worse every day.
But millions of stupid people in America think it’s him showing strength…
This is why the rest of the world holds America in contempt.
Because it deserves it.
Yep.
To me sounds like the reason why people always fall for egomaniacs. They think they’re strong and straightforward, while that’s exactly their main issue, they’re all except steady and strong.
An egomaniac will always answer fast, no esitation, no matter if the answer is stupid or not. People loves that kind of shit.
Good politicians are often the opposite. Boring and slow. Takes time to think about all consenuences, all the parts amd make a deal worth for the most.
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Hear me out… what if this is them doing the us a “favor”
We all know that he can’t stand to the slightest bit of criticism. He’s a narcissist, that’s part of what narcissists are.
