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2025-05-12 Government Corruption

Media: Qatari Royal Family to Gift Trump $400 Million 'Flying Palace'

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Posted by badanov 2025-05-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [240 views ] Top

#1 The plane would have to be taken apart and every nut, bolt, cable, chip (containing billions of transistors) etc would have to be subjected to a thorough security inspection.

How much would that cost?

Timeō Danaōs et dōna ferentēs.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-05-12 04:47|| 2025-05-12 04:47|| Front Page Top

#2 What is it they want ?

Posted by Besoeker 2025-05-12 05:17|| 2025-05-12 05:17|| Front Page Top

#3 A fair question, Besoeker.

Posted by Mullah Richard OTR 2025-05-12 07:19|| 2025-05-12 07:19|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ 2,3

Over the past few decades, Qatar has had the policy of 'let's be important'. They do this because they have excess sovereign wealth and they think this will make them less vulnerable to being taken over by a military exercise. Another thing they do is have tall buildings. Another is to subsidize Al Jazeera. Another is to fund both Hamas and the PA.

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-05-12 12:08|| 2025-05-12 12:08|| Front Page Top

#5 It's a gift to the DOD, not Trump.

Posted by Angstrom 2025-05-12 13:38|| 2025-05-12 13:38|| Front Page Top

I’m going to try one last time.

The Qatar B-747 was built in the US by Boeing. They are offering a newer 747 to replace one of the two current AF-1s that have been flying for 40 years. Which are tired and need to be replaced. The wing based at Andrews has also purchased…
— Buzz Patterson (@BuzzPatterson) May 12, 2025

based at Andrews has also purchased aircraft from other countries in the past which are currently flying our VP and senior government officials. This is NOT new.

Qatar is offering the jet to the US military, not Donald Trump. The DOD contractor is based in the US, in fact my dad (a retired Air Force general) used to work for them. They are, not unironically, also working to upgrade the FAA technology as we speak. You know, Newark and elsewhere. They will get the aircraft and perform all of the security and the installation of the systems that AF-1 requires to safely move our president around the world. Not the Qatari’s. And you and I will pay for that but not the $400 million the 747 would normally cost. I could tell you exactly what is required to modify the AF-1 for safe flight but that is Top Secret and I’d have to kill you.

This AF-1 will serve the sitting president, whether they be Republican or Democrat until Boeing gets their shit together to complete the new, upcoming improved 747s that started under Obama, was renegotiated under Trump, and was completely ignored by the Biden administration. It’s looking like 2029 to 2030 for delivery at the soonest.

I love X but sometimes the “sky is falling” conspiracy crap grows tiresome. A little knowledge goes a long way. Having flown on the current AF-1s 100 hundred times, I have intimate knowledge.

Now, come at me about “chemtrails.” 🤣
4:38 PM · May 12, 2025

And in response to a challenge about the Trump library getting it, he said

Buzz Patterson
@BuzzPatterson
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No, it goes INTO the library. It won’t be flown. Just like the Reagan Library with the original AF-1. They’re static displays.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-05-12 19:52|| 2025-05-12 19:52|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ with the Stock Market returns, Illegal Criminal deportations, they're struggling to find anti-Orange Man leverage

Posted by Frank G 2025-05-12 20:05|| 2025-05-12 20:05|| Front Page Top

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