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From Fox News: Qatar’s royal family offered to donate a jumbo jet to the Department of Defense that could serve as Air Force One, but a White House official said the offer has not been accepted, Fox News has learned.
Earlier Sunday, ABC News reported that President Trump “was poised to accept” the $400 million Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet and would use it until the end of his term, when it would be given to his presidential library. Trump is believed to be frustrated with Boeing’s delays in producing a new presidential plane.
A White House official told Fox News the gift will not be presented or accepted when Trump visits Doha this week. But the White House stopped short of denying altogether that Trump may take possession of the plane at some point.
In a Truth Social post Sunday night, President Trump wrote:
“So the fact that the Defense Department is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a 747 aircraft to replace the 40 year old Air Force One, temporarily, in a very public and transparent transaction, so bothers the Crooked Democrats that they insist we pay, TOP DOLLAR, for the plane. Anybody can do that! The Dems are World Class Losers!!! MAGA.”
Political strategist Jess Fields wrote, “As a Trump supporter: please President Trump, don’t take the plane from Qatar. It’s not illegal (the Statue of Liberty was a gift), but it’s bad optics, and Qatar has often acted against our interests. If we must take the plane for some foreign policy reason, please sell it.”
As a Trump supporter: please President Trump, don’t take the plane from Qatar.
It’s not illegal (the Statue of Liberty was a gift), but it’s bad optics, and Qatar has often acted against our interests.
If we must take the plane for some foreign policy reason, please sell it. pic.twitter.com/6eh6u3Hnpg
— Jess Fields (@jessalanfields) May 11, 2025
Rep Ritchie Torres (D-NY) seeks inspector general review of any Trump acceptance of Qatari jet gift
Torres: “With an estimated value of $400 million, the aerial palace would constitute the most valuable gift ever conferred on a President by a foreign government..” pic.twitter.com/QO1tVDYR14
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) May 11, 2025
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