Qatar now says they are simply discussing it, no plans to actually gift it.
One wonders why trumpet said this, to distract from something else or to manipulate someone? |
What could possibly be so bad that he's using this to distract people from it? If Trump and Qatar go forward with this plan he's getting impeached over it. |
lol, no he won’t. |
So when the plan sinks, he can claim that after analysis, he and his team "of the best people" saw intractable ethical and security concerns so, being the MOST ETHICAL administration in HISTORY that is overwhelmingly concerned with security, he has decided not to move forward with the plan. |
I think he should accept it graciously on behalf of a grateful nation, and then immediately donate it to the DNC for them to use as they see fit. |
First and foremost he wants the plane. |
I had no idea she’d been a lobbyist. I thought she was a lowly grifter. It does all make sense. She was a big-time grifter, hence the appointment. |
When the right tries to equate this as the French gift of the Statue of Liberty. |
LOL. I hope they rig it up like the Speed bus and he's in it and has to transfer all his $$ for it to land safely. But with our luck they would demand nuclear codes and he'd turn everything over like the weakass he is to save his skin. |
Republicans have given Trump a carte blanche to ignore ethics and conflict of interest laws. We have the Government we voted for. Soon we'll be like the banana republics, where X% of GDP is written off as political corruption spoils for the most powerful families. |
+1 This is taking grift to a new level. Why would the Trump Library need a Qatari plane? Why can't he just accept it on behalf of the US Government. |
I guess Trump never sat through federal government ethics training.
Trump, Pressed on Qatari Jet, Says Only ‘Stupid’ People Reject Gifts https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/us/politics/trump-qatar-plane-jet.html The president grew angry when questioned about the ethical implications of accepting a luxury jetliner from a foreign government. |
My point was that the G7 thing was one of the rare instances where Trump bowed to bipartisan pressure and reversed course. Of course he blamed Dems and the media, but still... |