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AN EMOLUMENT FOR TRUMP: A Super-Luxury Boeing 747-8 "Flying Palace" Jumbo Jet from Qatari Royal Family

How could Ethics watchdogs let this one slide off the radar screen ?? 

In what may be the most valuable gift ever extended to the United States from a foreign government, the Trump administration is preparing to accept a super luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet from the royal family of Qatar— a gift that is to be available for use by President Donald Trump as the new Air Force One until shortly before he leaves office, at which time ownership of the plane will be transferred to the Trump presidential library foundation, sources familiar with the proposed arrangement told ABC News. 

The gift is expected to be announced next week, when Trump visits Qatar on the first foreign trip of his second term, according to sources familiar with the plans.

Trump toured the plane, which is so opulently configured it is known as “a flying palace,” while it was parked at the West Palm Beach International Airport in February.

One of those 20 planned international real estate developments includes golf course and residential project in Qatar, according to Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington.

And, of course, the great legal minds that have lost case after case in Trump’s drive to deport, arrest and jail anyone the administration wants; the same lawyers who have been laughed out of court by 9-0 Supreme Court rulings and upbraided by federal judges from coast to coast; the same lawyers who couldn’t keep Trump from being convicted on 34 counts of fraud ... have reached another (shocking) conclusion: This is legal, no matter how badly it smells.

Sources told ABC News that lawyers for the White House counsel’s office and the Department of Justice drafted an analysis for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth concluding that is legal for the Department of Defense to accept the aircraft as a gift and later turn it over to the Trump library, and that it does not violate laws against bribery or the Constitution’s prohibition (the emoluments clause) of any U.S. government official accepting gifts “from any King, Prince or foreign State.” 

'Very bad idea': Even Republicans are revolting over Trump scheme to get $400 million plane from Qatar

 

Left: U.S. President Donald Trump boards Air Force One for travel back to Washington, D.C., at Palm Beach International Airport, in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. May 4, 2025. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo. 

 

Right: Eric Trump, Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization and son of U.S. President Donald Trump looks at the 3D model of Trump International Golf Club & Trump Villas project with Qatari Minister of Municipality & Chairman of Qatar Diar Abdullah Al Attiya, launched between Qatar Diar and DarGlobal in Doha, Qatar, April 30, 2025. REUTERS/Bassam Masoud 

 

Elizabeth Preza

May 11, 2025 

 

'ABC News on Sunday reported President Donald Trump is poised to accept “what may be the most valuable gift ever extended to the United States from a foreign government” — “a super luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet from the royal family of Qatar” to be used “as the new Air Force One until shortly before he leaves office, at which time ownership of the plane will be transferred to the Trump presidential library foundation.”

FACTOID:

The aircraft is valued at roughly $400 million — without the additional communications security equipment the Air Force will need to add to properly secure and outfit the plane in order to safely transport the president.

This comes on the heels of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s ridiculous lie that Trump isn’t enriching himself in office.

“I think it’s frankly ridiculous that anyone in this room would even suggest that President Trump is doing anything for his own benefit,“ she said on Friday. ”He left a life of luxury and a life of running a very successful real estate empire for public service ... this is a president who has actually lost money for being president.”