- They've now made clear the Qatari plane is officially a bribe. Trump gets to take it with him for his personal use after he leaves office. The Times is really not being clear with readers abt how prez libraries work. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/qatar...
May 11, 2025 18:30
- What an absolute insult to the people of the United States by the Qatari. Fuck those guys forever.
- By a remarkable coincidence, the Trump presidential library is housed in a Hangar in Palm Beach, Florida.
- Air Farce 1 It’s like a Fabergé egg threw up in a Rolls-Royce showroom. Like someone asked AI to design ‘opulence’ but forgot to disable ‘dictator mode.’ Wait….I got one more…. It’s what you get when you give a Wish.com interior designer with a head injury unlimited oil money and say, “go nuts.”
- Then, from a security angle, and given what goes on in AF1 and who is using it, it might be just a little bit awkward to have a foreign government doing the president a "favor" like this. What's next? Putin gifting the Secretary of State a cellphone? Xi building us an embassy?
- This plane needs to be parked at the Tetterboro Airport and not Joint Base Andrews.
- Fun thought: suppose the plane officially did belong to Trump. To whom do the modifications to that plane apparently to be performed by L3Harris belong? Assume for the sake of argument that those mods involve items and technology not for sale to civilians or foreign governments...
- If it's for use by the government then it's government property and the next President should take it back. And then sanction Qatar for bribing the United States.
- I’ve lost faith in the Times’ ability to realistically communicate the actual state of affairs. In the name of neutrality, they are doing gross disservice to news coverage.
- I thought that was a weird way of phrasing it, that it will go to the Trump library. Did people think it would be a part of the tour?
- 🎶 “who’s on the seventh floor brewing alternatives? what’s in the bottom drawer waiting for things to give? spare us the cutter”
- The only thing that surprises me about this is that the Qataris actually think Trump will do whatever he promised them once he actually has the plane.