Trump and the Qatar 747 Gift

 Every day Trump does or says something or threatens to do something that make liberal heads explode.  Today the top news for the exploding heads is that Trump is planning on taking a gift from Qatar of a $400 million 747 to use as Air Force One.

Trump is saying, “why should we spend taxpayer money on a new 747 if someone wants to give us one?”

Well, one reason would be that Qatar supports Hamas and a bunch of other Muslim terrorists who kill Americans and taking anything from such losers looks bad.  The other reason is that it’s illegal for a President to accept gifts from foreign leaders, princes, kings and queens.

Maybe Trump is just trolling the Left again to watch their heads explode but if he accepts a plane from Muslims it sets a bad precedent and I’d have a tough time defending his action.  Also, just imagine the security nightmare of accepting a plane from Muslim terrorist supporters??  How many places could listening devices be hidden in such a massive gift.  The phrase TROJAN HORSE comes to mind.

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When sultans tried to give President Martin Van Buren lavish gifts, he did what the Constitution requires and asked Congress what to do.

Two live lions had been gifted to Van Buren by the Sultan of Morocco at the US consulate in Tangiers in 1839 and the Sultan of Oman tried to give him “horses, pearls and other things of value,” delivered by ships in 1840.

“I deem it my duty to lay the proposition before Congress for such disposition as they may think fit to make of it,” Van Buren wrote to lawmakers after explaining that he understood such gifts were against the law.

Long story short: Congress told Van Buren those gifts were not OK. The lions ultimately went to a zoo and the horses were sold, according to the Washington Post. The Van Buren pearls are in the Smithsonian.

Van Buren was pretty stupid, according to the logic of President Donald Trump, who is tired of riding around in 40-year-old jets. Trump very much wants to accept a luxury $400 million Boeing 747 from the royal family of Qatar to be used as Air Force One, which is the call sign for whatever plane is carrying the president.

“I could be a stupid person and say, ‘Oh, no, we don’t want a free plane,’” Trump told reporters on Monday. “We give free things out. We’ll take one, too.”

After Trump’s term ends, when a long-delayed brand-new set of Air Force One planes might be ready, the luxury jet would go to Trump’s presidential library.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/12/politics/jet-qatar-trump-air-force-one-what-matters