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." ...
 
Qatari Air Force Facility Update: Official Clarifies Status and Plans
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... Al-Ansari highlighted that, like any construction project, the facility will generate hundreds of jobs for local Americans and continue to sustain them during the "maintenance phases."
The project has been in the works for "several years" with planning going through several rounds of "engagement and community consultation" and has received approval at both the city and local levels.
The U.S. has partnerships with several different partners to train their troops on U.S. facilities, including Turkey, Singapore, Italy, Netherlands, Finland, Switzerland, the U.K., and others. Singapore, particularly, trains at Mountain Home Airbase. ...
When Did The US Agree to Host a Qatari Air Force Facility?
The U.S. and Qatar first inked a deal in 2017 to sell Qatar 36 aircraft, their associated weapons systems, U.S.-based training, maintenance support equipment and logistics support, according to The Air Force Times.
Stars and Stripes then in 2022 reported that the Air Force was looking to bring 170 members of Qatar's Air Force to the Idaho base, where they would learn to fly the newest F-15 fighter jet "specifically modified for the Persian Gulf state" and advance the program.
Lt. Col. Peter Yule at the time told the Idaho Statesman in a phone interview: "With Singapore, their ability to integrate with our local community has been phenomenal. I would expect the same thing out of the Qatar program."
Yule called the sale of aircraft to Qatar "obviously a big strategic advantage" that will "continue to increase capability of partner nations within the Middle East, a region of huge influence for the United States. So the more we can increase capability with our appropriations there, the less reliant we have to be on a large footprint by the United States military." ...
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