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Home Front: Politix
US accepts $400M jet from Qatar, will use as Trump''s official plane
2025-05-22
[NYPOST] Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has formally accepted a controversial $400 million Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet from 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...
's royal family and directed his team to begin tuning up the ''flying palace'' for President Trump to use as a temporary Air Force One.

Once the upgrades are completed, Trump, 78, plans to use the extravagant plane as his official presidential jet until Boeing delivers the first of two presidential aircraft currently under construction.

''The Secretary of Defense has accepted a Boeing 747 from Qatar in accordance with all federal rules and regulations,'' chief Pentagon front man Sean Parnell told The Post in a statement.
Posted by:Fred

#2  Simple things for simple minds ... a critical mechanical component fatigues, fails in flight, down she goes.

The president, his entourage, the press corp and city dwellers below become adverse news.
Posted by: Skidmark   2025-05-22 12:05  

#1  Qatar paying jizya to the US like a good little dhimmi would be a welcome development if the payment wasn't a highly complex machine that will be in physical proximity to the POTUS for extended periods of time.

The plane could literally be bugged with millions(*) of active and passive 21st century "Things"

One redeeming effect is that this plane, as a gift could be thoroughly examined by the NSA for years without ever actually serving as AF1, giving the US insights about the adversaries' top tier spying technology.

Also, this kerfuffle will force the US Democrats to break with Qatar, making an anti-Qatari political consensus possible.

(*) Common consumer SoCs in smart phones and tablets contain billions of transistors.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2025-05-22 06:02  

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