'The Air Force One 747 That Qatar Gifted To Trump Is Getting Its Finishing Touches'

[sop]

Progress continues on the new Presidential transport. Air and Space Forces reports that Air Force One has a fresh coat of paint, one of the final steps before it goes into service. It no longer looks like the personal plane of the Qatari royal family, but the personal plane of Donald Trump, painted in the inverse color scheme of his personal Boeing 757. 
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With work beginning only this past September, it's taken defense contractor L3Harris under a year to rebuild and outfit this plane for Presidential duty. In contrast, Boeing has been working on two replacement 747s since 2018, and they still won't be ready until 2029. No doubt the grift gift from Qatar is completely free of bugs and other surveillance equipment in this highly accelerated turnaround. I'm sure the concerns about the underside's dark colors causing the highly specialized electronics to overheat have been completely addressed as well.
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"For some reason, Trump will be allowed to keep this plane for himself after he leaves office, despite $1 billion in taxpayer dollars invested in refitting an aircraft that will spend little time in service before then. No doubt the fact that Trump made a so-called $200 billion deal with Qatar, which is really closer to $93 billion, to buy a fleet of Boeing airliners right after the royal family gave him the 747 is merely a coincidence."

Article at link:

https://www.jalopnik.com/2192501/air-force-one-747-qatar-gift/

[marble falls]

1. What's next: Stripping of parts before crushing?

[jls4561]

2. I doubt that Fat Donnie has any usable parts worth stripping, but I'm all in on the crushing.

Oh, you were talking about the plane?

[yellow dahlia]

3. I still don't understand why it isn't owned by the tax payer.

Gifts to the president are considered property of the American people. Ask Hilary and Bill. Someone bought them some furniture for the residence. They took it when they left. But they were told they had to return it because it belonged to the American people.

This tramples the emoluments clause.

This even defies the framework of civil law.

At the very least - shouldn't he have to reimburse the billion $?

[sop]

5. All good points. Hopefully, the new Congress will ask those very questions in January.

The next AG will have to set up a separate Trump Corruption Department at the DOJ just to investigate and prosecute all his public grifting.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

6. At the very least we should take off all the parts we paid for.

[Kid Berwyn]

4. Hope the bed has bed bugs.

The kind they can’t get rid of by de-lousing, like at Trump Doral, etc.