Summary
Trump lashed out at bipartisan critics after reports revealed he plans to accept a $400 million Boeing 747-8 jet from Qatar for use as Air Force One.
In a Truth Social post, Trump dismissed concerns as “world class losers” complaining about a transparent gift. Qatar stated the plane is under legal review between its Ministry of Defense and the Pentagon.
Critics, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Chris Murphy, and Rep. Jamie Raskin, accused Trump of corruption and violating the Constitution.
Even allies like Laura Loomer led the MAGA pushback to the jet deal.
Besides the obvious corruption, it’s a national security issue. I’m not an aircraft designer, but I’m pretty sure there’s quite a bit of electronics aboard that craft. Pretty easy to slip in a few listening devices.
To be fair, the trump crew don’t observe any real security anyway, so all of the more competent competent competitors likely already know our secrets.
I mean, assuming that trump doesn’t just tweet them out, he’d absolutely sell our secrets for some graft.
Or members of his cabinet just accidentally add foreign agents to classified chats…
Not to mention the refit to include all the secure communication equipment Air Force One has. Also ECM, active countermeasures, NBC equipment, refuelling, etc.
Realistically, it would probably cost more to retrofit a plane than to just build it from scratch.
It is a decade or more to build.
Indeed.
It’s peak Trump; it starts out criminal, and then veers into wildly stupid, with stops for complete insanity and horrible bad taste.
Slightly off topic. This video shows Obama and Jerry Seinfeld sitting in the actual Presidential limo. When you see it in the movies the back seat roomy enough for four adults. In actuality, the armor makes the interior tight for two folks.
Why does only NBC get their equipment added and not the other TV stations
Because that’s the station The Apprentice was on. /s
Incase people don’t know NBC stands for Nuclear, Biological, Chemical.
its around 2.6billion. and he might ask for more than 1 plane i bet.
Air force one is not a plane it’s just the cal sign of any air force plane the president is on. Executive one is any commercial plane the president is on.
That was my first though, that airplane is gonna have a direct line to the government of Qatar
The more you think about it, the stupider the idea is.
Besides the obvious security problems, Air Force 1 is to a regular plane what a Formula One racer is to a regular car. Someone else pointed out things like counter-surveillance measures, refueling, etc etc.
It would be twice as expensive to retrofit it.
Air Force 1 is to a regular plane what a Formula One racer is to a regular car
Achshually. Air Force 1 is used to refer to any Air Force aircraft the president travels on. That’s why it’s taken off more times than it’s landed.
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Is just a fun little fact that Air Force 1 isn’t a plane.
If nothing else you can basically guarantee it will be traceable
Or a shutoff switch.
But, would that be so bad?
People just aren’t considering the arguments in favor of accepting it, such as how cool it would be to receive what might be the biggest bribe in the history of bribery.
There’s sadly been much bigger bribes.
Even within his family.
It’s certainly the biggest one a president has openly accepted. By, like, 400 million dollars.
I was thinking the biggest single item.
Depends. Is the 2 billion deal for classified information one item, or divided by bits of intel?
It likely also has the best always-on one-way communication link to Qatar that money can buy.
Is 400 million more than Kushner got from the Saudis for his apartment buildings?
the biggest bribe in the history of bribery.
Didn’t somewhere get a large wooden horse once?
Same thing; this one also carries enemies hell-bent on sacking and conqueroring. This is just an homage.
Pretty horse, though.
So trump now owes Qatar a 400 billion dollar favor, it’s that simple
(For those not getting it, it’s a jab at doge mixing up million and billion)
He absolutely DOES owe them 400 billion now.
To quote Kurt Hansen from Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty. “To make billions, you first need to grease the palms of others with millions”.
Trump is a disgrace
Trump is a insider threat.
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Alternative headline: “Spoiled child throws tantrum when told No.”
So…is anyone not thinking that the plane is absolutely chock full of spying devices? I mean sure Trump is too stupid to think of it as anything other than a tribute to his greatness but is there a single sane person there?
No need for spying devices, he’s for sale they can just buy the info they need.
I can’t remember did I actually read it or hallucinated it, but I remember something about trump “selling” (auctioned?) “dinner with Trump” events and most of the tickets are bought out by “foreign influence”. He is clearly selling “chance to influence trump over dinner” tickets knowingly.
Yea the auction ended yesterday.
Oh, this jet is going to have more bugs than a rainforest. It will be hilarious and compromising.
And just wait until he starts keeping classified documents in the airplane lavatory next to the photocopier.
i dont think you need to bug trumps planes, he has a big mouth and will say anything for money.
But I waaaant it!
First of all, he is not “losing his mind”. You cannot lose what you already lost decades ago.
I mean, dementia, Alzheimer’s, syphilis syndrome, 70 years of big macs, all impacting a brain that was so fuckin’ dumb he lost money running casinos.
hard to say…
That constitution is becoming a real barrier for Trump.
Corrupt piece of shit.
Traitors to the Constitution & rule of law applied universally should get only gifts of a short rope and a long drop
A short drop and a sudden stop is the phrase I believe
One man’s beautiful gift is almost everyone else’s blatant corruption.
He ain’t got no mind to lose.
Maybe we will get lucky and he’ll invite musk and other billionaire backers into the plane for its first official flight, at which point Boeing plane does what it does best coupled with a crippled FAA… one can dream.
He’s losing a lot of support…
One of the joys of living in a red state, is plenty of uninformed people voted for him. A shit ton of them are saying they’re not voting again.
But with an actual impartial DNC chair, once we get a candidate (especially if it’s a charismatic one who’s economically progressive) it’s gonna be easy to get them to vote D like with Obama.
But with the dnc’s track record, them not voting is the best we can have right now.
Don’t be fooled. They will fall in line again. They will vote for Trump again if they have to. They’ll have to stop [insert boogeyman here].
We’re also on track for voting to barely matter by that point, unless something massive changes first.
I mean, in some cases these are people I’ve known for 20 years…
But I’m sure you know them better than I do
Nah you just underestimate the power of propaganda and cognitive dissonance.
Sounds like you’re talking about a very specific anecdotal group of people, and they’re talking about the general trend.
As someone also in a red state, I believe they’re right in general.
