If your MAGA relatives try to justify the Qatar plane gift by bringing up the Statue of Liberty, remind them Congress voted to approve that gift, and we’d be happy to have Congress vote on the plane, too!
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There is no comparison! The statue never went to a private library after Cleveland left office. So ridiculous. Also it honored the countries of France and the US’s joint efforts during our revolution and honored our constitution, it didn’t violate the constitution and bribe one dumb ass President.
Agree, yet if they’re refusing to admit the Statue of Liberty was a gift to all Americans rather than to one president, then they’re justifying their cult leader/own beliefs and will sadly never listen and learn.
All my relatives are dead and on behalf of them, he should be shoves into a jet engine of that plane, while it is on, and then turned into "hamburders" for his Secretaries he thrust all of us to deal with as a Soylent Green luncheon.
I suspect Trump and Bondi have just embarrassed themselves again. Just ask Qatar to delay the gift of the plane until Trump leaves office, and see what they say 😂😂😂
Wasn't the Statue of Liberty given by France to America as an unencumbered gift? It's not like then President Cleveland got to take it home at the end of his term.
And no one went home with the Statue after their presidency. It belongs to the Nation and is still on full display. Pretty sure if she could, she'd swim back to France right now.
Where is the money to convert it from a flying palace to a properly upgraded and fully equipped Air Force one going to come from and will congress get a vote on releasing that money?
That’s seriously the argument MAGA is using to justify the Qatar plane bribe? Laughable since the president in office at the time didn’t get to keep the Statue of Liberty and put it in his backyard.
I think the American public kept the Statue, not an individual? If the plane is getting parked on an island to welcome immigrants and they can use the gold toilet I’m less opposed.
With a disclosure on the cost of the retrofit to make it Air Force One and the cost of the subsequent removal of command post technologies when it becomes an expresident’s private property. It seems that cost should be born by the recipient. But first all income taxes on the plane should be paid.
Tell them that statue stays in one place and can’t be used to transport anyone around the world. If your relatives don’t understand that, they are taking up valuable oxygen and should go.
I can't even accept a box of chocolates from a customer at my work. It has to be reported and then goes into some legal locker room or burn chamber. Or they eat it. Not sure.
Besides being a false equivalence, MAGA knuckleheads making the argument must be unaware of the lines in a poem inscribed on a brass (not gold) plaque within her pedestal that read “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
The statue, stands in the harbour and is a symbolic gesture of what America stood for ( no more ) recognised around the world and a top tourist attraction that brings in money for the country . Compare the pair ?
That is their fucking job!! The same ones that tried to impeach Biden over a lie about taking money from a Ukrainian company. Yet here we are, tariffs are supposed to be done through congress, the budget supposed to be done by congress, they’re not doing their jobs, allowing a dummy to do it
MAGA imbeciles have an excuse for every transgressions of their orange messiah. Fuck the lot of them, this 747 "gift" screams corruption lowder than the renversers on all its four engines. CORRUPTION!!!
Yeah I’m done arguing with them. Raises my anger and bp and does not change their minds at all and I’m called all kinds of nasty names -libtard and tds and worse. Fuck it I’m done
Issue of public fundraising effort for Statue's pedestal makes it different too, since that didn't get gifted, and it's been a public site ever since. I expert the Grifter-in-Chief could get his devoted to build him new airstrips and airports easily enough, though they'd never be welcome at them..
Congress should stipulate if they do okay the deal that the plane gets rotated on a monthly biases amongst all the Presidential libraries not just trump's
the base of the Statue of Liberty was paid for with donations from the American people. the MAGA cult should be the ones to pay the tens of millions it will cost to upgrade and not American taxpayers
The Statue of Liberty wasn't given to an individual, either. The whole Qatari scheme ends up with this $400M plane in Trump's personal possession when he leaves office. Huge difference.
Hmm, not only is tRump willing to accept a 400M$ plane from Qatar, he is touring the middle east this week promoting his personal tRump business. Not to mention using taxpayers $$ and his position to do it. Wake up America, tRump is a criminal stealing from your country.
Omg it’s apples to planets the dumbest analogy. Just stupid. A gift the president didn’t himself get benefit from so wasn’t a bribe. I’m so tired of maga illogic.
Did Pres. Cleveland use the Statue of Liberty as his personal property while claiming his presidential library technically “owned" it. Nope to the nth.
But acolytes like Fox and Coulter trying to justify the unjustifiable is as predictable as an earthquake aftershock. And almost as damaging.
Right on! The 2 are not the same in any way shape or form. The Statue of Liberty is a symbol of freedom and democracy and enjoyed by ALL. The Qatar Plane is a symbol of corruption enjoyed by 1 corrupt wannabe dictator. End of story...
The Statue of Liberty was for the USA all Americans the luxury plane is for one man only the Hooker who is selling out the USA to the highest bidder grifting meme coins and other cheap made in China crap
The Statue of Liberty was a gift to the American people. Not a gift to to individual for their personal use. This plane will never be retrofitted and usable within the term of Trump's presidency. After his term end, it will no longer serve the next president. It is a gift him as an individual.
AND. . .the Statue of Liberty stayed in New York harbor. It wasn't used to fly the president around in the style of a tin-pot dictator after he left office.
Since a French politician demanded its return (because freedom was under siege) the problem with the Statue of liberty could be solved by giving it back to France (not seriously, but to quote Cliff Cash @cliffcashcomedy.bsky.social "If you can't outsmart them, you have to outdumb them.")
I would be into Congress getting involved in something cuz they're sitting around doing nothing. I don't know how anybody could compare the two. One was gifted to the country the other is gifted to Trump. That's crap. That plane should only be accepted on the grounds that it's the next Air Force One
Well, also, pretty sure the Statue of Liberty doesn’t actually belong to any one person. I’m pretty sure that you and I are not gonna have use of that plane ever in the future
Grover Cleveland didn't have it turned over to his Presidential Library after he left office so that it would be for his personal use. A key difference. Another difference; Cleveland's personal library actually had legitimate, presidential items in it, because he did actual presidential things.
One says “Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” and the other says “Fuck the poor.” Even if they had both been acceptable gifts, they’re not the same.
The President didn't take position of the Statue after his term was over. The U.S. taxpayers didn't need to pay money to assess, retrofit for National security, upgrade, nor maintain, the Statue while another Statue of Liberty already existed for use.
The core shame is the utter absence of shame; even a recognition of its potential relevance at any level. It’s like a junky getting ready for a fix. All he can see is the nearness of immediate consumption gratifying his conspicuous appetites. He can feeeel it, taste it, must have it NOW.
Even speaking of this gives it way more legitimacy then it deserves! Trump is evil and he's using his deal with the Devil to enrich himself. He believe that he runs the world as he proclaimed it's so. Shut this mother fucking down and drive him and the rest of them into the sea!
I wouldn't be happy to have congress vote on the plane - because I die a little more inside every time I see exactly how deep their sycophancy really goes.
There’s no comparison to anything that’s happened in the past with anything trump has done.
There’s never been a weirder, less appropriate person in our presidency.
If everyone around someone has to constantly make adjustments that should be an indicator telling US that person is a mistake.
And equally as important, the reason for the Statue of Liberty as a gift. And the President at that time (sorry, I’m not sure who that was.😄) didn’t get to keep it after he left Office. The Plane was ‘not’ sent for a Country being for Freedom & Liberty, and to welcome the poor, huddled masses. 🤨
The Statue of Liberty sits on an island in a harbor on government property (an army facility) and is open to visitors. It was never used by any president, his family, or group.
And also, ask them why MAGA spent over 2 years trying to impeach Biden, which I'm sure they supported. If Biden did everything they said, how is that any different from Qatar and Syria's "gifts"?
Our nation has received several gifts from foreign countries. They all follow the laws about belonging to ALL OF US and Congress has voted to approve them. This Hamas jet “gift” isn’t following the law.
Then he’ll start soliciting planes from other countries and try to start another airline - and then he’ll bankrupt the airline, even though it was started with free planes
Also, the Statue of Liberty did not become the private statue of President Grover Cleveland when he left office. It remained the property of the people of the U.S.
Might be helpful to ask them who owns the Statue of Liberty now, and if the ownership was ever transferred to a private entity after it arrived in the US at any time.
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Anyone who thinks that this is equivalent to a bribe of a $400m jet is an idiot.
I guess it goes to show that even they know this is indefensible.
GAAAAHHH!
Orange turd wants taxpayer money to retrofit the Qatar plane and then gift it to himself.
Good whatever.
I need to remember how very lucky I am in that regard.
We no longer speak & their "find out" phase is fast approaching.
Oh well
Be best
Now: Donny Two Jets
Swamp force one is not a gift, it’s a bribe.
Shouldn’t Congress be doing things to help people?
If Trump really wants the plane though, he can just leave office now and take it.
But acolytes like Fox and Coulter trying to justify the unjustifiable is as predictable as an earthquake aftershock. And almost as damaging.
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Let's show up. June 14 - No Kings.
Just sayin' ...
There’s never been a weirder, less appropriate person in our presidency.
If everyone around someone has to constantly make adjustments that should be an indicator telling US that person is a mistake.
Does every American have the right to use that plane ??
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GOLD PLATED FLYING PALACE !
But that just gives Dems a campaign ad, maybe?
"Republicans in the House and Senate voted that Trump could take a bribe!"
Maybe, immigrants just need a free airplane to be proper citizens?
Thanks 😊 “the more you know”