Schumer also called on Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify before Congress and answer a number of questions related to the potential gift.
Senate Republicans indicated they have multiple concerns with President Trump potentially being gifted a new luxury jet from Qatar, ranging from safety to legal and ethical worries.[image or embed]
-- The Hill (@thehill.com) May 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Hah! US Senator Chuck "AIPAC" Schumer (D-NY) has a 17% approval rating. He had smoothly approved dozens of judges and AUSAs previously without argument under the first Trumpf regime. But the issue of wealthy Arabs gifting this flying Babylon to the Dotard is a line in the sand for Schumer-- not the horrendous Nakba or murdering Shia Houthis in Yemen with expensive US munitions. Link: www.cnn.com
'Trump's Jet Pro-Quo'.... from the Daily Show.
There goes the Corkster popping off another lie.
The DoD gets the plane. Did you know 2 of the AF2's are foreign purchased?
No you didn't because Trump is a virus in the peabrain of yours.
The DR honestly feels like a miracle where you take the most annoying people in the world and stick them in a broken elevator together.
~ Nate Silver
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 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 ---- 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.
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~ Buzz Paterson former AF1 pilot.
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