Trump is accepting a bribe from the royal family of Qatar in the form of a luxury airliner. The use of this aircraft as Air Force One also raises national security concerns. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u... - ThreadSky

leahmcelrath.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Trump is accepting a bribe from the royal family of Qatar in the form of a luxury airliner.

The use of this aircraft as Air Force One also raises national security concerns.

Gift link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/us/politics/trump-qatar-jet-gift-air-force-one.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GU8.cBM3.u2C1vI3ae0NU&smid=url-share

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pnwcoffeeswiller.bsky.social•2 days ago

Next up, a new White House!!

cwbis.bsky.social•2 days ago

rhapsodybooks.bsky.social•2 days ago

Can anyone be more stupid or naive or greedy? And have so many loyal followers to boot? Boggles the mind...

thatsthefactjack.bsky.social•2 days ago

Air FARCE One… How to Launder Foreign Gifts — Trump Style...
https://bsky.app/profile/thatsthefactjack.bsky.social/post/3low3ne74qs2o

2diamondeyes.bsky.social•2 days ago

What national security? We don't have any of that anymore. Who are you trying to gaslight, NY Times?

sanwil.bsky.social•2 days ago

Trojan horse comes to mind.

woozleweasels.bsky.social•2 days ago

I bet a good portion of its weight is in bugs and surveillance equipment so they will know everything he does and says.

glc-delaware.bsky.social•2 days ago

He thinks it’s because they love him with tears in their eyes. That plane should be dismantled or blown up after his presidency or death, which ever comes first.

henren-98.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yeah that’s not a fucking security risk at all. SS better not let this happen.

satyr-icon.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://bsky.app/profile/satyr-icon.bsky.social/post/3lowqciqubk2b

hey.rupert.murdochbait.click•1 day ago

The bribe airliner probably already has Starlink, like the commercial those of their flag carrier Qatar Airlines.
Is it time for a wider boycott?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_Amiri_Flight

thejhn.bsky.social•2 days ago

the perfect Trojan horse

distractible.bsky.social•2 days ago

"The plan raises substantial ethical issues..."

I think Maggie means, "This is illegal, and a crime that should trigger impeachment proceedings."

ekjordan.bsky.social•2 days ago

Sweet Jesus! Could he be any more corrupt?

justjohn1962.bsky.social•2 days ago

Riiiiiiight, a gift🙄

cforsberg.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is ridiculous. Besides the corruption, how, for security reasons alone, is this acceptable?

atiredcraftygirl.bsky.social•2 days ago

*waves Geiger counter around the plane* nope. No bugs here, speak clearly and freely about state secrets.

jshandersen.bsky.social•2 days ago

Let's hope they installed a remote controller so they can crash it with him in it 👍

2diamondeyes.bsky.social•2 days ago

I hope it's an oligarch's party jet by then.

jpe1974.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s not just pathetic—it’s treason cruising at 30,000 feet. A foreign government gifting the current president a luxury jet isn’t diplomacy—it’s a payoff with wings. If a Democrat pulled this, Fox News would’ve declared martial law by now. But since it’s Trump? Silence.

#BribeForceOne

glc-delaware.bsky.social•2 days ago

We can always hope there’s a button to eject this mother effer at 30,000 feet.

smwoodruff.bsky.social•2 days ago

Seriously what the fuck is the point anymore. 🤷🏼‍♀️
King. And the courts created this. They’re all in on it. We are Russia!

defeq79.bsky.social•2 days ago

And there is no approved budget for retrofitting

cwbis.bsky.social•2 days ago

Is there any personnel still left capable to check the plane for safety threats like electronic devices, Signal-terminals, etc.?

marcianobrito.bsky.social•2 days ago

Propina das grandes. Um propinão. Em troca do que? mais sangue de mulheres e crianças palestinas e negócios das arábias?

judgian12365.bsky.social•1 day ago

By law, ->"AIR FORCE"<- One, as the name implies, belongs to the United States Air Force.
Donald Trump keeping it for himself after he leaves the White House would be... well... STEALING!

miriamlikespie.bsky.social•2 days ago

Do you mean the people allowing Hamas leadership to live at the Four Seasons Hotel & the people funding Students for Justice in Palestine and all of the antisemitic protests on campuses across the USA?

schadenfreude666.bsky.social•2 days ago

national security...what a joke...boom!...

mrslibrt.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is a person who truly believes there is absolutely nothing he could do for which he’d be held to account. He doesn’t even see wrong anymore. Anything goes.

4chris.bsky.social•2 days ago

Perhaps he doesn’t like US craft

merlisa.com•2 days ago

What about America first?

spacexecadet.bsky.social•2 days ago

Is he perhaps only thinking of flying around the globe in luxury rather than with all the support, protections, comms and airborne command facilities that AF1 is equipped with ?

thatguykurt.bsky.social•2 days ago

Any gift to the president is a gift to the American people. We will seize it.

olym1976.bsky.social•1 day ago

There are so many ways to snatch this plane from Trump. Won’t his final ride home be a courtesy that does not need to be granted? Isn’t it considered a military aircraft? Just add it to the list.

America must hold the Trump administration legally politically financially socially accountable.