The president may be thirsting for a new four-engine jumbo jet, but many governments and royal families are unloading their fuel-guzzling palaces in the sky.
— Read on www.forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky/2025/05/14/qatar-747-trump/
The Qataris that own the jet offered to Trump have beeen trying to sell the it since 2020. No takers. It’s very expensive to operate–nearly $30,000 an hour–and it’s so big that it can land only in very large airports.
Qatar would be thrilled to give it to Trump and unload it.
If Trump gets it, it will have to be stripped down to be sure it has no listening devices. The cost of refurbishment: $1 billion.
If Trump gets it, he will use it after he leaves the Presidency and bill the taxpayers for the cost of operating it. After all, it is a gift to the nation. And that’s the way he rolls.
Look this gift horse in the mouth, please.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
The grift never ends.
LikeLike
I was talking the other day to a very MAGA senior partner in my firm. Even he thinks Trump’s self-dealing in the Mideast is crazy.
LikeLike
FLERP,
Does he regret voting for Trump?
LikeLike
Not even close.
LikeLike
Fascist Trump could give a tinkers damn how much that gold plated plane is going to cost the US taxpayers. As long as he gets the plane in the end he will be totally happy and claim he made the best deal in the world for the United States citizens.
And guess who will pay the cost of operations after he lives office. Trump’s library foundation that’s who. And who will be kicking in hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars to that damn foundation. The MAGA’s who are dumb enough to do the kicking in. And if Trump wants to sell the plane it will be done a bargain basement prices and Trump will figure out how he get the money.
A bigger felon grifter has ever been born and the MAGAs cannot see to see it.
LikeLike
I think the taxpayers will pay the bills because the big white elephant jet is “a gift to the nation.” He uses it, we pay for it.
LikeLike
Moeone: “A bigger felon grifter has ever been born and the MAGAs cannot seem to see it.”
I think there are some who see it quite well–and actually want it. If we ever get past this cosmic warp, books will be written endlessly about it and it will all come out. At least the rest of the nation is finally getting a 101 course in civics.
I also think there is reason to believe that perhaps Trump and Maga and the Heritage Foundation clowns have severely misjudged the American people. They seem to have mistaken the American people’s willingness to trust Trump et al for their being “stupider” than they really are. CBK
LikeLike