Donald Trump doubles on a luxury aircraft gift from Qatar | Donald Trump

Donald Trump has doubled why he would like to accept a luxury Boeing 747 from Qatar, a country in which he negotiated in business transactions today, with the US President the 400 -MIO. -Dollar aircraft was an opportunity that is too valuable for rejection.

“The plane in which they are in is almost 40 years old,” Trump told Fox News, moderator Sean Hannity, during an interview with Air Force One at the departure of the Middle East, where he also visited Saudi Arabia and the VAE.

“When you land and see Saudi Arabia, you can see the VAE and you see Qatar, and you usually have these brand new Boeing 747s. You see our next to it is like a completely different plane.”

Trump, accepting such a wasteful gift as President, was clearly irritated by the ethical criticism of accepting such a wasteful gift, and insisted that the American prestige was at stake. “We are the United States of America. I think we should have the most impressive plane.”

The Timing of Trump’s visit raised the eyebrows, which just a few weeks after the Trump organization has given a contract with Qatar to a luxury resort and a golf course development outside the capital Doha, called Trump International Golf Club & Villas.

“My attitude is, why shouldn’t I accept a gift?” Trump continued. “We give everyone else, why shouldn’t I accept a gift? Because it will take a few years for the Boeing to be finished.”

Trump referred to the incoming Air Force One fleet, a contract of USD 3.9 billion, which Boeing was administered in 2018 with an original schedule of 2024, which has been delayed since then by a few years.

The US general Prosecutor Pam Bondi, who worked as a lobbyist for Qatar during her former employer Ballard Partners, has reportedly declared that it to accept the plane as “legally permissible”.

However, the idea of ​​accepting a catar aircraft triggered the alarm in the political spectrum. The democratic representative Ritchie Torres condemned it as a “flying poison”, which violates the emrocers’ clause of the constitution, which expressly prohibits the federal official from accepting valuable gifts from foreign powers without the approval of the congress.

Even convinced Trump allies have broken, including the Texan Senator Ted Cruz, who warned that the plane has “significant problems with espionage and monitoring problems”, while the Senator of West Virginia, Shelley Moore Capito, “checked” for bugs.

The former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, who ran in the Republican primary for the President, named the acceptance of foreign gifts “never a good practice” that threatens “secret services and national security”.

Trump tried to avoid these concerns by claiming that the Jet was technically donated to the Ministry of Defense before the end of his term of office ended to his presidential library – suggestions that question little concerns about the conflicts of interest.

Aerospace experts also cast cold water through Trump’s tax savings from Trump and said NBC News that the conversion of the 13-year-old trading jet into a functional air force would cost well over $ 1 billion and would take several years. The process would require the breakdown of the aircraft to search for surveillance devices before installing demanding security and communication systems.

The actual Air Force One, which is older, acts as a mobile version of the White House and has anti-missile defense systems, hardened and encrypted communication, safe subjects for managers and the ability to recharge the middle of the air.

Trump’s Gulf tour began with a speech in the Saudi US investment forum 2025, where he praised the leaders of the region. He said the region “exceeded the old conflicts and tired departments of the past” and that “this great transformation does not come from Western interventionists or flying people in beautiful aircraft that give them lectures on the life and management of their own affairs”.

Qatar has long been on the way to being included in the American lexicon of preferred partners. In February 2022, the Biden Administration Qatar described a coveted relationship with military, secret services and financial advantages.