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2025-05-12 Government Corruption
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Media: Qatari Royal Family to Gift Trump $400 Million 'Flying Palace'
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The administration of US President Donald Trump is preparing to accept a Boeing 747-8 aircraft worth about $400 million as a gift from the royal family of Qatar, ABC News reported on May 11, citing an informed source.
"This may be the most valuable gift ever given to the United States by a foreign government," the statement said.
According to these reports, the gift will be handed over next week, May 12-18, when Trump leaves for a Middle East tour. The US president is said to have seen the plane before.
The TV channel's sources noted that the plane is a real "flying palace" and will serve as Trump's new presidential aircraft, and after his term as head of state ends, ownership of the airliner will be transferred to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation.
It was previously reported that Trump would visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates on May 13–16. The US President noted that the trip would create “a large number of jobs.”
As reported by Regnum News Agency, in April, Trump unveiled a monument to himself at his own golf club, Trump International Golf Club. The statue was presented to him by Sticker Mule CEO Anthony Constantino. The monument was called the "Monument of Defiance" and was installed between one of the golf club buildings and the first hole of the golf course. Trump is depicted with his hand raised and his fist clenched, as he was when he was assassinated in July 2024.
Sticker Mule CEO Anthony Constantino will unveil a bronze statue of President Donald Trump
...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down...
known as the "Defiance Monument" on Tuesday at the company’s headquarters in upstate New York. It will then be donated to the president’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.
The statue, which will be named "Defiance Monument," is inspired by the actions taken by Trump directly after the attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, when he stood up with Secret Service agents around him and declared with a fist in the air, "Fight! Fight! Fight!."
Constantino, who is now running for Congress in New York’s 21st District to replace the seat left by UN Ambassador and former GOP Chairwoman Elise Stefanik, said he wanted to make the statue to honor Trump’s bravery in that moment.
"Five thousand patriots stood up for me when Democrats
 ...every time you hear the phrase white people , white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
threatened to arrest me over my sign. I thought it made sense to honor the President who stood up for America after being shot, by commissioning a monument to commemorate his bravery," Constantino said.
The Sticker Mule CEO was challenged in Oct 2024 by the city of Amsterdam, New York when he erected a 100-foot "Vote for Trump" sign on top of a building owned by the sticker company.
A blurb from Sticker Mule detailed the statue to be unveiled on Tuesday this week, "The statue was handcrafted by sculptor George Lundeen of Loveland, Colorado. Lundeen is known for his realistic bronze sculptures, including the Benjamin Franklin Statue at UPenn and the Apollo 11 Monument at the Kennedy Space Center. This masterpiece will be donated to the Trump International Golf Course West Palm Beach."
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Trump defends prospect of Qatar potentially gifting him a plane to use as Air Force One
[IsraelTimes] After report says Doha is planning to hand US president luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet on his upcoming visit, administration officials said preparing to legally defend move
US President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...
is ready to accept a luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet as a gift from the ruling family of Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
during his trip to the Middle East this coming week, and US officials say it could be converted into a potential presidential aircraft.
The Qatari government said a final decision hadn’t been made. Still, Trump defended the idea — which would amount to a US president accepting an astonishingly valuable gift from a foreign government — as a fiscally smart move for the country.
"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," Trump posted on his social media site on Sunday night. "Anybody can do that!"
ABC News reported that Trump will use the aircraft as his presidential plane until shortly before he leaves office in January 2029, when ownership will be transferred to the foundation overseeing his yet-to-be-built presidential library.
The gift was expected to be announced when Trump visits Qatar, according to ABC’s report, as part of a trip that also includes stops in Saudi Arabia
 ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
and the United Arab Emirates — but not Israel — the first extended foreign travel of his second term.
Before Trump’s post trumpeting the idea, Ali al-Ansari, Qatar’s media attaché, said in a statement that the "possible transfer of an aircraft for temporary use as Air Force One is currently under consideration between Qatar’s Ministry of Defense and the US Department of Defense."
"But the matter remains under review by the respective legal departments, and no decision has been made," the statement added.
Meanwhile,
...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind...
US administration officials, anticipating ethics concerns, have prepared an analysis arguing that accepting the plane would be legal, according to ABC. The Constitution’s Emoluments Clause bars anyone holding government office from accepting any present, emolument, office or title from any "King, Prince, or foreign State," without congressional consent.
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