Sunday, July 27, 2025

Don't Ask What It Will Cost to Renovate the 'Free' Air Force One

To hide the cost of renovating the plane Qatar donated to President Trump, the Air Force appears to have tucked it inside an over-budget, behind-schedule nuclear modernization program.

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How much will it cost US taxpayers to retrofit the "free" Air Force One donated by Qatar? The Trump administration won't say. But attention is focused on a mysterious $934 million transfer from a Pentagon account. @sangernyt.bsky.social Eric Schmitt www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u ...

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-- Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt.bsky.social) Jul 27, 2025 at 9:13 AM

Comments

Is Bribe Force One going to be stationed at Epstein Island?

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-27 11:40 AM

More tax cuts for billionaires!!!

They don't need the money.

They need to make sure no one else is making money.

Huzzah!!!

#2 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-27 11:47 AM

Members of Congress express concern that Mr. Trump will pressure the Air Force to do the work so fast that sufficient security measures are not built into the plane. When asked last week, the Air Force said it simply could not discuss the cost " or anything else about the plane " because it's classified. (For collectors of such bureaucratic evasions, yes, the Air Force is willing to discuss the cost of building a new generation of intercontinental ballistic missiles, but not the cost of renovating the president's aircraft.)
That sounds about right.

#3 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-07-27 11:47 AM

So what percentage of that cost is simply going to be stolen by insiders?

#4 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-27 02:39 PM

Stupidest plan ever.

#5 | Posted by Miranda7 at 2025-07-27 04:12 PM

$1B of taxpayer dollars to retrofit a plane that will probably never be used.

And we're just six months into The Grift That Never Ends.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-27 04:23 PM

"$1B of taxpayer dollars to retrofit a plane that will probably never be used."

Oh it'll be used.

It'll be used for a nine-figure charitable deduction when Trump transfers ownership to his Presidential Library.

Maybe ten figures, after the upgrades.

#7 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-07-27 06:15 PM

Where is DOGE? If this doesn't qualify as waste, fraud or abuse then nothing does!

#8 | Posted by danni at 2025-07-28 06:03 AM

This will make a great hospital plane for some aid organization come about, oh, say 2029...

#9 | Posted by catdog at 2025-07-28 08:14 AM

$1B of taxpayer dollars to retrofit a plane that will probably never be used

But give a poor kid a baloney sammich and the world is ending.

#10 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-07-29 10:24 AM

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