Trump’s Dream of a Luxury Jet from Qatar Comes True!
[guest post by Dana]
President Trump, er, I mean the Pentagon makes it official :
The United States officially accepted a luxury jet to use as Air Force One from Qatar, the Department of Defense confirmed to ABC News on Wednesday.
“The secretary of defense has accepted a Boeing 747 from Qatar in accordance with all federal rules and regulations,” Sean Parnell, chief Pentagon spokesman, said in a statement.
“The Department of Defense will work to ensure proper security measures and functional-mission requirements are considered for an aircraft used to transport the president of the United States,” he added.
Everyone good with all this winning?? Everyone good with ignoring another pillar of our Constitution?? Everyone good with the President of the United States admitting that he is willing to be bribed??:
Ramaphosa: I'm sorry I don't have a plane to give you.
Trump: I wish you did. I would take it. pic.twitter.com/XgQTMr769P
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 21, 2025
Sometimes the Internet gets things right:
—Dana
Hello.
Dana (04a474) — 5/21/2025 @ 12:26 pmI have a feeling Trump will need a 3rd term to be able to fly on this jet.
Appalled (7bffe4) — 5/21/2025 @ 12:56 pmTrump has no shame. But, we already knew that.
norcal (cdf133) — 5/21/2025 @ 1:15 pmIdle speculation: Trump may not get a third term, but he may try to extend his second term.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 5/21/2025 @ 1:19 pmThe plane’s new call sign is “Air Pimp One.”
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 5/21/2025 @ 1:32 pmAir Farce One
BuDuh (599ae3) — 5/21/2025 @ 1:35 pmHe really wanted a pony.
nk (ad712e) — 5/21/2025 @ 2:09 pmHe would take it.
Dave (544b44) — 5/21/2025 @ 2:27 pmCome to the Oval Office. Stay for the ambush.
Have we had a worse presidential host for foreign dignitaries?
Paul Montagu (619e39) — 5/21/2025 @ 2:32 pmSeriously.
During his first term you could at least hope for a quickie with Melania.
Dave (544b44) — 5/21/2025 @ 2:47 pmFact Check: Assessing Trump’s Claims About Genocide and Land Confiscation in South Africa
Dave (2ce7be) — 5/21/2025 @ 3:10 pmHair Force One
Kevin M (a9545f) — 5/21/2025 @ 3:10 pmThere is no ongoing genocide occurring in South Africa. And while the government did enact a law last year allowing for the confiscation of land without compensation, no property has been seized under its authority.
So, if Trump were to get such a law passed, you’d be OK with it?
Kevin M (a9545f) — 5/21/2025 @ 3:11 pmIf South Africa did not need our markets, a man like Ramaphosa, a modern hero of his nation, second possibly only to Nelson Mandela, would not even deign to spit on a Trump.
nk (ad712e) — 5/21/2025 @ 3:26 pmAbout as irrelevant a response as one can make.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 5/21/2025 @ 4:12 pmThat name has already been used for a plane.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 5/21/2025 @ 4:15 pmSouth Africa does have some serious issues, such as their crime rates and their not compensating landowners for the property they’d take, etc.
Also, they really like Vlad Putin and his terrorist regime, which I thought would be common ground between Trump and Ramphosa. Oh well.
Paul Montagu (109343) — 5/21/2025 @ 4:40 pmIt’s entirely legal. I’ve heard that’s all that matters.
lloyd (1b730a) — 5/21/2025 @ 6:10 pmThe Department of Homeland Security wants to spend about $50 million to buy a new long-range Gulfstream jet to replace an aging one used by Secretary Kristi Noem and top Coast Guard and DHS officials.
The request for funding, to come from the Coast Guard’s 2025 fiscal year budget, came up during a House appropriations subcommittee meeting on Wednesday. Democratic Rep. Lauren Underwood of Illinois said she was “horrified” to receive a “last-minute addition” to the service’s budget proposal for the jet, noting Noem has another Gulfstream to use.
“We should be investing in our national security and improving the lives of our Coasties — not wasting taxpayer dollars on luxury travel and political stunts,” Underwood, the ranking member of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Appropriations, said in a social media post. The Coast Guard is overseen by DHS.
The request for a new jet comes as President Donald Trump considers accepting a luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet as a gift from the ruling family of Qatar.
Adm. Kevin Lunday, the acting commandant, said the Coast Guard, like the other military services, operates two military “long-range command and control aircraft” and the one being replaced is more than 20 years old.
“Like a lot of the rest of our operational aviation fleet and our cutters and our boats and our shore facilities, it’s old and it’s approaching obsolescence and the end of its service life,” he said during the hearing. “The avionics are increasingly obsolete. The communications are increasingly unreliable, and it is in need of recapitalization like much of the fleet.”
Lunday, who became acting commandant on Jan. 21 after Trump, a Republican, fired Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan, said the jet is needed to provide the DHS secretary, deputy secretary, himself, the acting vice commandant and two area commanders with “secure, reliable, on-demand communications and movement to go forward.”
The current plane is also “outside the Gulfstream’s service life, and well beyond operational usage hours for a corporate aircraft,” Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a written statement, calling its replacement “a matter of safety.”
Colonel Klink (ret) (9dbb75) — 5/21/2025 @ 9:59 pm