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‘The Most Impressive Plane’
It may not always seem like it, but I try to be generous editorially, really I do.
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I hope the next President, should there be one, feeds this plane into the wood chipper as one of their first offical acts.
Never happen. He wants it for his own to replace his existing “Trump” plane. It so embarrassing for our “leader” to go shopping at joe’s used plane yard. This gift will be confiscated as his personal aircraft.
It will take years to search the plane for intelligence devices and install the communications, security, air defense, etc required for an Air Force One; the plane won’t be ready to serve as AFO until long after Trump’s term and by then the actual new AFOs will be ready. So this is just more pointless taxpayer expense for the ego and avarice of a mentally decompensating man.
Maybe he thinks he’ll take the plane as his personal property, but that’s unlikely and Qatar has been unsuccessfully trying to sell that thing for years. Other than as a freighter, a 747 has no commercial value.
If he wants to fly around in the Qatari bribe as it is, both foreign intelligence services and any number of hostiles possessed of ground-to-air weapons, from Stingers on up, will be intrigued.
No doubt about it. They’ll have to disassemble it, go over every nut and bolt in it, and then put it back together. It would be less expensive to simply build it new, as anyone who’s tried to ‘restore’ a house probably knows.
Trump has already reassured skeptics that he has no intention of keeping the plane when he leaves office and it will become property of his presidential library. Given it’s size, the plane might be large enough to hold all the bags of money and million dollar checks already given to him for his lie-berry.
Maybe Chalky White will save us.
https://youtu.be/ldDkUHmRCV4?si=1EPlzGcY5g_a8Yk9
It’s just bottomless stupidity from this administration – gladly accepting airplanes from countries like Qatar while lecturing South Africa about “white genocide.” I think you are right that old age is the only thing that will save us from decades of this.
Father Time, you’re our only hope!
No problem for Qatar, Iran. Russia or anyone else to put a bug or whatever they like on the gift plane. World leaders see how well lying works for Trump so why not do it too. They can take advantage of a key American weakness: en masse we are gullible. Maybe Qatar did it, but they can simply blame Iran or Radical Leftists, but I doubt that is the point. There doesn’t have to be a bribe for Qatar, Trump was begging for the thing via the always willing Pam Bondi. Look what Qatar got out of giving something away that they were going to scrap. They showed the world how greedy and selfish Trump is. And how stupid for falling for an old gas guzzler no one else wanted. They got Trump to wear a sign around his neck that says ‘I’m a greedy fool’ and they did it right under the noses of his crack team. I wonder who will play him next besides Putin who is probably giddy over how easy it is to manipulate Donny Grease My Palm.
Here are the relevant sections from the American Constitution:
Article I, Section 9, and Article II, Section 1, prohibit federal officials from accepting “any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state” without the consent of Congress. This clause aims to prevent foreign governments from exerting undue influence through bribes or other forms of compensation.
I’m always interested in how Fox is able to spin things to their cult followers that defy simple, rational reading of something like the Constitution. When I checked this morning I saw they had a Maga lawyer who pointed out that the Emoluments clause states “No person holding any office”, but doesn’t specifically say the President, so that means it doesn’t apply to Trump.
We all know how well that clause works. One of our SCOTUS members has been accepting gifts. Like Trump, he has no shame. Who’s going to stop either of them?