Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday announced that he would sign a letter approving the establishment of a Qatari Emeri Air Force facility in Idaho.
Trump in 2017: "Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level." Trump administration in 2025: We are building a Qatari Air Force facility in the United States.
-- Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) Oct 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Trump Admin Sparks MAGA Fury With Qatari Air Force Base in US -- 'Betrayed'
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... Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Friday that the U.S. has greenlit the establishment of a Qatari Emiri Air Force facility in Idaho, a move that has drawn backlash from some of the administration's closest Make America Great Again (MAGA) allies, with Laura Loomer saying, "I have never felt more betrayed by the GOP," over the move.
Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist during President Donald Trump's first term and architect of the MAGA movement, told Newsweek in a text message, "There should never be a military base of a foreign power on the sacred soil of America." ...
Conservative commentator Amy Mek wrote in an X post she is "in shock that Washington would approve a deal letting Qatar, Hamas's #1 financier, open a Qatari Air Force facility on U.S. soil at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho."
She added, "It's a shared delusion. We're not building peace. We're building a launchpad for the Islamic disaster." ...
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