Come on, the king should be able to accept a gift from a foreign country. He is the king right.
What is completely corrupt piece of human shit like him to do but take he bribe.
Great example of the problem with ‘traditional’ journalism/media.
It doesn’t “raise ethical concerns.” No rational person would say “Gee, I wonder if that’s an ethical violation.”
It is very clearly an ethical breach and bribery.
I’m also shocked at the limited reporting asking why a government would give a $400 million plane as a ‘gift.’
Maybe the ashtrays were full?
Or, yes, bribery. I suppose it makes more sense.
Guys! Shut up! This could be the gift! Sure those people are evil and have slaves. But maybe this 747 is an old version with the special reset button? You know the one that makes vertical flight into horizontal again? And maybe they removed the button for funcies? I would just wait and see what happens. Maybe they just rigg…fix it such that every flight includes a katar landing?
I hope it’s a Boeing.
…what else would a 747 be?
Knockoff Airbus?
Just in case you’re serious: The 747 literally predates Airbus. The first ones rolled off the assembly line in 1968 and are a product of a time when Boeing was run by engineers that actually cared about quality and safety. Airbus was officially established in 1970.
That will be the safest plane in the sky. Where else are foreign governments going to find an imbecile as easily manipulated as Trump? They must keep him safe.
On the other hand, I hope they installed a spy cam in the bathrooms. Trump on a changing table while his aides tend his diapers would be hilarious.
It would be the safest for the Qataris. Hidden backdoors, fully loaded with surveillance equipment, ability to control the plane from their equipment.
The idea of Air Force One being a gift from a foreign government, let alone Qatar, sounds like a horror story spies tell each other around the campfire.
Still gonna cal it con-air
Air Felon One
A foreign nation gifts us a plane and Donnie makes it air force one.
Has he never heard of a Trojan horse?
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
The Trojan horse was a great gift, a great gift for beautiful people. But the people giving the gift were beautiful too. Great folks on both sides. I mean just look at it, the horse, look at it, it’s got wood, and it’s so tall. I was there, people were telling me, Mr Trump, look, look Mr Trump, that horse is so beautiful. It was so beautiful, people were crying. Sobbing. Thanking me. They had never seen such a beautiful horse. Have you ever seen such a beautiful horse? I thought of seabiscuit. I love seabiscuit. They tell me it’s such a beautiful movie. But you know what I say? See biscuit, eat biscuit. What a lovely biscuit.
Biscuits. I am in tears, that was hilarious and I needed that. Thank you.
:)
But also :(
I would be pretty confident saying no, he has not.
You mean the condom? Never used those.
How you got down voted for an excellent joke, I do not know.
the Qataris purchased it from the US… facepalm
“Concerns”. They’re just constantly minimizing the legal violations he’s making like it’s something that could possibly be problematic rather than just a blatant disregard for our governmental rules.
It’s the language they use with the powerful, along with the pretension everything must have two equally presented sides. Ironically, this approach is now quickly nearing the time when most major news outlets have either been subsumed into corporate or government parroting and the ability to actually truly even tell one side of the story, let alone two, will have vanished because they will just print what is approved.
Do you actually believe that the press would frame it anywhere near this way if Biden had tried to do something so blatantly corrupt?
If Obama had done even half of what Trump has done, conservatives would have already lit the White House on fire.
No. Just like everything else Trump has done, if Biden had done it it would have been end of the world.
Like he “defended” it like he used his strength and skills to keep attackers at bay?
Or he defended his blatant corruption with word salad mumbo jumbo?
I won’t read the article I’ll just guess at which one.
It didn’t say he successfully defended them.
Well if it’s a Boeing, this might work out well for everyone.
The actual AF1 is a Boeing as well, and has been since forever.
Air Force One is a Boeing already.
Air Force One is whatever plane he steps onto.
But the planes Air Force One normally flies as is very customized for the president, VC-25, a variant of the 747-200. It ain’t falling apart mid-flight.
This Qatari one? It totally could. And I’ll bet the only reason he wants it is because it has a golden toilet.
that only needs to be flushed three times
Doesn’t the real Air Force One have a wide array of highly specialized equipment and systems that allows it to act as a highly survivable command center in all situations? Things like encrypted communications arrays, air refueling capability, self defense systems and electronic warfare systems to name a few.
That fancy airplane they’re giving as a blatant bribe has none of those things. It’s just kitted out with useless bougie crap for rich cunts to show off.
…honestly when you put it that way, using shiny shit to keep Trump distracted from important shit is the second-best way to handle him; and using shiny shit to keep him isolated from tactically capable shit makes Trump more vulnerable to the best way to handle him.
And for it to become AF1, I would think it would need to be completely disassembled down to the rivets to make sure it’s not compromised. Even then, do we trust the integrity of the materials in it?
It’s not even possible for this place to become AF1.
It’s definitely not possible to get this plane to the integrity of AF1, but he can definitely call it AF1 all he wants.
I suppose it’s true that any plane the president is on is AF1.
Like one of those public park toys on a big spring that you sit on and rock back and forth, shaped like an airplane: ”I’M ON AIR FORCE ONE!!!”
Like when he picks his legs up off the ground while he’s sitting on the toilet. AF1
Ship of Theseus Force One
It is AF1 as soon as he flies on it.
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Good. If we’re lucky, it’ll fail catastrophically somewhere safely over the ocean.
IIRC there is no dedicated „Air Force One“. It’s just whatever plane the POTUS happens to be on. Of course usually that boils down to very specific few aircrafts, but if he boards the bribe-jet, this would be „Air Force One“ at that point.
Edit: I just checked. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_One
Yes
I don’t understand the presidential library stuff (because I’m not from the US), does he get to keep the plane or does the next president get it?
Most foreign official gifts which the President and First Lady do not retain for themselves are transferred to the National Archives by the Gift Unit, and become part of a presidential library museum collection.
Any foreign gift that is of substantial value is considered a gift to “the people of the USA”, not it’s president, so if the president wants to keep it they must purchase it.
They’re trying to find loopholes to this rule by transferring it this way or that way, so Trump can keep it, despite it being clearly against the law.
But why does it say Trump’s presidential Library. Does he have his own or renamed it.
In recent times, every president gets a library (or a library + museum) to house and display stuff from their time in office. This is not owned by the former president, it’s owned by the nation.
Furthermore, they are trying to make use of the precedent that a prior plane used as Air Force One was donated to Reagan’s library. But that was done after new planes were in use, and it went there as a museum piece.
Followed by: “well it’s my library, so I and my kids should be allowed to check things out when we want to”
As if this asshole has ever stepped foot in an actual library.
It’s an archive, or sometimes a museum. It remains government property.
https://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries
Or in Trump’s case maybe they’d open a casino…
