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minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up126·17 days agoIn case you didn’t know. The plane isn’t some special gift the Qataris built special for Donnie. It’s a white elephant they’ve been trying to unload for years. It’s like a fat guy giving the pizza kid the old bike he hasn’t ridden since he got over the DUI restrictions.
minus-squareLupusBlackfur@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up26·17 days agoAdditionally, the “fat guy” very likely loaded the “bike” with surveillance-ware and surveillance gadgetry before giving the “pizza kid” the “bike”…
minus-squareBoddhisatva@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·17 days ago Additionally, the “fat guy” very likely loaded the “bike” with surveillance-ware and surveillance gadgetry before giving the “pizza kid” the “bike”… Certainly loaded the bike with surveillance as did all the fat guy’s friends and some of their enemies too.
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minus-squareNeuromorph@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up20·17 days agoTrump also asked for it. Before it was offered. So he literally asked for this bribe…
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·17 days agoTrump could have just called the Saudis on Inauguration Day 2016 and told them his Swiss Bank. He’d have had more money and could have just watched TV for eight years. Greedy and not bright.
minus-squarecosmicrookie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·17 days agoAnd expecting free pizza for the rest of the decade for it
minus-squareCitizenKong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·17 days agoThe art of the deal by the guy whose companies filed for bankrupcy six times.
minus-squareD_C@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·17 days agoThat’s a bit unfair…you have not mentioned the many other failed businesses that didn’t end in bankruptcy!!
minus-squareGlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·17 days agoIt is also helping them cover up the brachside resort and golf course and theme park they are building with him. https://www.newsweek.com/new-trump-golf-course-55-billion-beachside-project-announced-qatar-2066482
minus-squarelemming741@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-217 days agohttps://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky/2025/05/14/qatar-747-trump/ https://www.newsweek.com/qatar-gift-trump-unsold-plane-2072564 Best I can find, and they’re not very good
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·17 days agoNot sure why you’re being downvoted. This is the first I’ve heard of it, too, and I’d like to learn more as well.
minus-squaredrzoidberg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·17 days agohttps://onemileatatime.com/qatari-royal-family-747-sale/ This isn’t the first jet, or first time, they’ve tried to offload one of their 747s. The last time they couldn’t sell one of their 747s, they gifted it to Turkeys president.
In case you didn’t know.
The plane isn’t some special gift the Qataris built special for Donnie.
It’s a white elephant they’ve been trying to unload for years.
It’s like a fat guy giving the pizza kid the old bike he hasn’t ridden since he got over the DUI restrictions.
Additionally, the “fat guy” very likely loaded the “bike” with surveillance-ware and surveillance gadgetry before giving the “pizza kid” the “bike”…
Certainly loaded the bike with surveillance as did all the fat guy’s friends and some of their enemies too.
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Trump also asked for it. Before it was offered. So he literally asked for this bribe…
Trump could have just called the Saudis on Inauguration Day 2016 and told them his Swiss Bank. He’d have had more money and could have just watched TV for eight years. Greedy and not bright.
And expecting free pizza for the rest of the decade for it
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The art of the deal by the guy whose companies filed for bankrupcy six times.
That’s a bit unfair…you have not mentioned the many other failed businesses that didn’t end in bankruptcy!!
It is also helping them cover up the brachside resort and golf course and theme park they are building with him.
https://www.newsweek.com/new-trump-golf-course-55-billion-beachside-project-announced-qatar-2066482
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Source?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky/2025/05/14/qatar-747-trump/
https://www.newsweek.com/qatar-gift-trump-unsold-plane-2072564
Best I can find, and they’re not very good
Thank you for providing the answer
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. This is the first I’ve heard of it, too, and I’d like to learn more as well.
https://onemileatatime.com/qatari-royal-family-747-sale/
This isn’t the first jet, or first time, they’ve tried to offload one of their 747s.
The last time they couldn’t sell one of their 747s, they gifted it to Turkeys president.