The Maga World Glace on Trump’s Qatar-Jet

When Air Force One slid in Doha today, it was easy to imagine that President Donald Trump had a case of Jetneid.

Hamad International Airport in Katar’s capital sometimes houses the 400 million dollar -Palace in the Sky, a luxury liner that Trump has an eye on. Katar’s royal family plans to add Trump to the plane as a temporary replacement for the aging Air Force and then to his future presidential library after taking office. The Qatarian plane was in Texas, not in Doha, during the Asphalt greeting ceremony, which Trump received on the second stop of his Middle East trip. Questions about the security and ethics of the gift have shaded all week.

Trump has privately defended the Qatarian aircraft as a replacement for the current Air Force 1, which expires until 1990. He informed the advisors and consultants that it is “humiliating” for the President of the United States that the President of the United States flies in an outdated aircraft, and that foreign guides. The outdoor consultant said that Trump also thought about using the Qatarian plane after leaving the White House.

But in a rare moment of the defiance, some of the loudest protest screams come against the possible gift from some of Trump’s most determined allies. “I think if we changed the names on Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, we would all freak out on the right,” Ben Shapiro, A Daily wire Co -founder, he said in his podcast. “President Trump promised to dismiss the swamp. In fact, this is not the swamp.”

Even in Washington, a capital that is now stunned to scandals that were once unthinkable, the idea of ​​accepting the jet is stunning. Trump’s second administration again shows a disregard for norms and traditional legal and political laughter in the elected office – this time on a really gigantic yardstick. Trump’s team has announced that the gift would be legal because it would be donated to the Ministry of Defense (and then to the presidential library). However, the federal law prohibits government employees to accept a gift of more than 20 US dollars from every person. The retired General Stanley McChrystal, who once commanded the US armed forces in Afghanistan, told us that he could not accept lunch in the main cooling capacity. Former federal employees shared similar reactions on social media.

“Those of us who served in the military could not accept a cup of coffee and a donut to a building contractor due to the occurrence of inappropriateness,” wrote the retired air weapon colonel Moe Davis, who also worked as a military lawyer in Guantánamo Bay.

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Air Force One is the most famous aircraft in the world, an immediately recognizable symbol of American power. In addition, it is a white house in the sky that is equipped with enough first-class security and communication devices to guide the government if necessary. As is well known, President George W. Bush had hours after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and held it until he could safely return to Washington. Technically speaking, each plane receives a president the legendary Air Force One Call sign. But when most people think of the plane, imagine the highly modified Boeing 747-200B aircraft with the color scheme from the Kennedy era. (There are actually two identical versions of the aircraft, one of which is usually used for additional employees on long foreign trips. A smaller version is also used for airports with short runways.)

To enable a foreign government to deliver the characteristic American aircraft, not only beats many people as unpatriotic, but also as an outrageous security risk. Although relationships between the United States have improved to Qatar, especially when Doha was a decisive mediator in the Israel Hamas War, the Golfand previously supported terrorist groups. In order to be swept up for hearing aids and to bring to American-military standards, the Qatarian aircraft would probably have to be disassembled, inspected and then rebuilt, a careful process that would take years and would cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. Boeing was supposed to deliver a replacement for Air Force One last year, but significant delays cost the aircraft manufacturer billions for the project. The White House estimated last month that a new plane was only finished in 2029. Boeing recently said that his goal was 2027.

For some in Maga World, Trump’s decision to accept an airplane from a golf state is the antithesis of its foreign policy “America First”. It also collided with its economic agenda to return jobs and projects to the USA. Laura Loomer, whose influence on Trump led to a recent cleaning of the National Security Council, has blown up the idea and published it on X: “This will really be such a stain for the administrator if this is true. And I say that as someone who would take a ball for Trump, I am so disappointed.” Mark Levin, another influential conservative voice, replied: “Dito”.

Trump’s willingness to accept such a wasteful gift of a power from the Middle East, brought the Republicans of the Congress into the unpleasant but familiar position of defending a step that they would denounce if it had been made by a democratic president. Some criticized the idea – rarely. “I certainly have concerns,” Senator Ted Cruz from Texas told CNBC. Cruz said he was “not a fan of Qatar” and warned that the plane would represent “significant espionage and surveillance problems”. Senator Roger Wicker von Mississippi, the chairman of the armed forces committee, also planned the offer and told Political The “It would be as if the United States would move to the Qatarian message.”

Others have shown more willingness than usual to break with Trump. Senator Josh Hawley from Missouri, who borrowed the description of his economic policy by the President, told reporters: “It would be better if Air Force One were a big, beautiful jet in the United States.” Senator Rick Scott from Florida was dull and told The hill: “I don’t fly with a Qatarian plane. They support Hamas.” And Senator Cynthia Lummis from Wyoming broke out in laughter when they were asked by reporters in a Capitol corridor if it were a good idea to accept the jet.

However, the GOP leaders have shown no indication that they are planning to start something that resembles aggressive, lengthy investigations in the foreign expression of Hunter Biden or in an earlier Hillary Clinton era. Spokesman Mike Johnson tried to differentiate between what he did as mysterious business of the “Biden Crime family” and Trump’s seemingly more transparent business. “Whatever President Trump is open is open,” Johnson told reporters this morning. “You don’t try to hide something.”

The spokesman said little to disguise the fact that a Congress controlled by Republicans probably does not examine a Republican president, no matter how questionable their actions are. While the GOP leaders frame their investigations into the biodes and Clinton as a solemn responsibility for the legislative branch, Johnson’s comments today treated the supervisory role of the congress as almost subsequent thoughts. “I have to take care of leading the House of Representatives, and I do that,” he said. “Congress has responsibility for control, but I think, as far as I know, ethics is all persecuted.”

The Senate’s Senior Democrat, Chuck Schumer, said that he would determine all the president of the President’s President of the President until the possible transaction was checked.

Trump does not seem to see any problems with the acceptance of the gift. He called a reporter a “stupid person” to question their appropriateness, and added: “I would never be one who rejected an offer.” And in a social contribution to the truth that was sent today at 2:50 a.m. in Saudi Arabia, he wrote before his arrival in Doha: “Why should our military and thus our taxpayers be forced to pay hundreds of millions of dollars if they can get it free of charge.” He added: “Only a fool would not accept this gift in the name of our country.”

When I asked the White House for another comment, a spokesman turned me on the position of the president. Trump was frustrated by the current Air Force One for years and thought that the new version – which was commissioned during his first term – would be prepared for his second.

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For years, the vast majority of Republicans have decided to ignore Trump’s efforts to use the presidency to enrich themselves and his family. Despite his promises, the President never released his tax returns or completely sold his business in his first term (his two oldest sons simply took over the daily operations). Trump ignored the emrocers’ clause of the constitution that prohibits chosen officials to accept gifts from foreign states and trigger several lawsuits. Perhaps his outrageous example for Pay-to-Play was the Trump International Hotel in the high-towering old post office building, just a few blocks from the White House. When a foreign delegation came to Washington, there was a good way to rent a room block in the hotel with which Chief Executive had a good opportunity to rent a room. And taxpayers of Dollar flowed every time he spent a weekend in one of his own resorts, where he stayed there and stayed there to stay there in order to stay there in the trump family’s coffers in the Trump family.

The Trump International Hotel was sold outside the office in Trumps for four years, but the President’s efforts to ensure profits have only become more apparent. His business has led his business with a couple of “meme coins” and an exchange of the World Liberty Financial to the cryptocurrency, which spends its own token, just as Trump is able to support crypto-friendly laws. An auction with one of the Meme coins, $ Trump, closed this week with the top owners of the coin that won a dinner with Trump and a private tour through the White House. And American Bitcoin, a crypto mining company supported by the Trump sons, will soon go public, which means that investors will be able to pour money into the company at home and abroad.

Trump’s adjutants have focused on striking business qualifications, while the president is in the Middle East this week. The White House today announced $ 1.2 trillion in Aktar, including a deal for the Arab state, to buy $ 96 billion in Boeing jets, while trying to tacitly tried to make a pre-MEP and a case fire fire in Gaza before advance. But the trip has once again thrown a headlight for the Trump family’s business activities into countries that are not covered by its rhetoric “America First”. Trump arrived in Qatar two weeks after his son Eric Trump ended to develop a 5.5 billion dollar -Golf club north of Doha. The Trump organization has also granted new offers in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the other stops on the President’s journey.

“If he can get an airplane, he laughs at the bank,” said Anthony Scaramucci, the former Trump official, Trump critic. “But I think it’s only out there as a red herring to distract from the even bigger things he does for himself.”