Trump fails to understand that “gifts” like this are not “free of charge” which is wht the Founding Fathers wrote the emoluments clause into the Constitution. Fast legal action is called for here. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/us/politics/trump-qatar-jet-gift-air-force-one.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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After his term he can of course keep the plane as it is nothing more than a post-it or pencil.
But you're ...
So he couldn't be prosecuted for appointing Jeffrey Clark (for a few minutes) as acting AG, or, bizarrely, for having Clark, the head of DOJ's environmental-issues unit, order the Asst US ...
But this doesn't involve using his executive powers AT ALL, in *any* aspect of this.
So, yeah, even John Roberts would allow actual criminal protection for it, imo. Not EVERYTHING is immune. You just have to figure out how many angels can ...
right-wing "originalists"
ignore the plain language
of our Constitution
when it bans
foreign emoluments.
The Founders could not
have been more clear:
NONE.
See the right-wing
justices make sure
it has no teeth.
This is like a football team cheating in the Super Bowl and saying the team following the rules of the game are losers and suckers.
We wouldn’t tolerate that, would we?
THAT'S THE STORY HERE!
They will own this for years (and elections) to come.
You don't want to be in on the suit? Don't.
I'm in, where do I sign!
AS GRANDPA JONES USED TO SAY
#DumbDumbDonald
Call Congress.
Fight this BS
in the phone booth of his mind
This is so ridiculous it has to be cover for something even worse.
The weaponized Trump and administration, filled with corruption and grifting.
The Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, along with other ethical considerations,
Trump cannot use public office for private gain. This includes using his power or resources for personal benefit or to influence decisions that could benefit his businesses, a conflict of interest.
Have you noticed, @joycewhitevance.bsky.social, the huge model jet sitting on the coffee table in the middle of of Oval Office that people are always having to manoeuvre around?
He understands perfectly well that those who shower him with lavish gifts expect something in return. And he is perfectly happy to deliver.
See e.g. Justin Sun's pardon or Elon Musk's unprecedented access to & powers over fed agencies.
Maybe they too expect such gifts in power.
Neither side has done anything to end or even limit the dollar amounts of Citizens United when in power.
Greed is bipartisan & one thing both agree on.
it won't come from SCOTUS
POTUS operates as a lawless king, with no one to hold him accountable, because SCOTUS and DOJ allowed it all to happen
America has proven itself to be another corrupt Oligarchy
"GIFT". HOW LONG HAS THAT BEEN IN THE WORKS.
What I can’t understand is how this gift to the people of the U.S. then doesn’t belong to the following President but instead would go to the Presidential library. Can anyone help me understand that part?
To me it doesn’t feel unrelated
Do all diplomatic : ceremonial gifts (assuming this is a more expensive version of the same for the benefit of the doubt) follow the recipient as opposed to staying with the government?
Air Force One is highly modified with all kinds of defense mechanisms, communications, and on and on and on. They would need to strip the new plane to install the devices and equipment.
NOT going to happen!
Pardon me - are you serious?
Let's bring in Merrick the Tortoise - he'll know what to do!
https://www.ngrippel.com/ngr-politics.html
So he’ll fight to keep it.
Greed drives Trump.
And he’s shameless!
His thinking process stops at ‘mine’.
The constitution doesn’t concern him.
And being a sociopath to boot he doesn’t even know what the fuss is about!
So.
When in doubt, lash out! Or, change the subject!
As to our Emoluments Clause, Bill Barr proved in Trump 1.0 that it would NEVER be applied to Trump.
He doesn’t “fail to understand,” anything involving grift and crime.
Just a few short months ago it was the Biden crime family.
This man is literally being paid by foreign governments in the open, this isn’t a mystery. It’s like watching Friday the 13th, the guy with the mask is going to kill people.
This was not a "gift given in the hopes of gaining some future benefit".
Trump has already agreed to the thing(s) that he will do for Qatar in exchange for the jet. Given the lousy negotiator that Trump is, Qatar's probably got more than their money's worth.
Hahahahahahaha jk dude is hammerwasted right now bruh! 😎 🥃 🍻 USA! USA! 👍
of Corruption...... Again Donald
In 2024, the Roberts Court majority has taken us down a dangerous road allowing dictators and authoritarians to bypass the Constitution’s checks-and-balances and exercise unchecked, power.
But every time he does something crazy/stupid like this, and hen takes it back. he makes it easier to do worse next time.
WHAT is Qatar getting in RETURN? Surely they're not giving the "gift" because they just love, love the USA when they could've spent it on the poor or on education?!
AMERICA,
it is unbelievable and unbearable . . .
Trump's America is a 💩 🕳️
Its built to withstand a nuclear blast with comms intact
https://people.howstuffworks.com/air-force-one4.htm
PBS did a whole special on it…
it is not 40 years old as
President screwloose indicated
Sorry, but.
“Come fly with me, let’s fly, let’s fly away.
If you use some tax-free ruse
There’s a dodge my staffers say.
Take Qatar’s big jumbo jet, let’s fly away!
Once I accept it,
That emolument
Is wholly mine.
I don’t have to
Declare it, SCOTUS says.”
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/national/2025/05/11/qatar-says-no-final-decision-made-on-gifting-trump-a-jet-to-use-as-air-force-one/
Republicans do nothing, say nothing, get paid a lot. and let him destroy our country
#Republicans can all fuck off!
You’re not wrong.
He said the quiet part out with his comments last week about longshoremen and truckers— he has the full USA /1
If there’s a Democrat who won’t do shit like that, like seize Stephen Miller and hold him in a cell or if we dont think they have the balls to reverse every single thing Trump has done, then they aren’t fit to be president.
Given the complicated links between Qatar & Israel, questions need to be asked.
And, of course, the plane shouldn’t be allowed to be accepted.
"Defense Department is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a 747 aircraft to replace the 40 year old Air Force One, temporarily, in a very public and transparent transaction, so bothers the Crooked Democrats..."
He's ignoring lawful court orders without restraint.
Trump doesn't care about the Constitution or any of the other principles that made this nation great. He cares about himself only.
If it benefits him, it is good.
That is his only law. How do people not understand this yet?