Besides the anti-espionage gear, the other thing that makes all the presidential vehicles & craft so expensive are the subtle defensive systems installed, especially missile jamming gear. But sure, put Dwumpy out there in a brightly colored vehicle that has the defenses of tissue paper.
And that will take the rest of his administration to accomplish, which means he will never use it in an official capacity.
Apparently the deal with Qatar is that it transfers to the ownership of his “presidential library” at the end of his term. Meaning he gets to keep it for personal travel.
Oh not to mention his treason I mean that's the grand pub of them all. This s*** is going to come to an end one way or another. Arm up prepare we've got goons to take out
The crooked acts of the Republican Party have become a common occurrence! They are blatantly breaking the laws of the Constitution & not being enforced because the enforcers are the law breakers!
I hope that Americans will decide very soon that we’re not following the example of the peoples in the Russian Federation or its predecessor, the USSR, and allow ourselves to be brainwashed, coerced & ruled by authoritarians that create a totalitarian system which elevates them above the law.
With 1/2 the folks who voted in 2024 NOT voting for Trump, I hold out hope that it isn’t too late. And after finishing Anne Applebaum’s book ‘Iron Curtain’ I am convinced that everyday Americans can still overcome the Fox “News” right-wing authoritarian propaganda & lies and think for themselves.
$10B from the crypto scam alone. The most lucrative con in his long history of cons. Staying out of prison was No. 1. Making himself, his family & cronies filthy rich was No.2. We'll find, after this term, the most heinous acts of corruption imaginable.
Perhaps, but I place a cost on the attempt to avoid the emoluments, or accept a $400M "gift" from a foreign source, in the first place. What is it worth?
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people are focusing on it because it is more BLATANT. The general public has reached a state of ignorance such that memecoins and insider trading, tariffs, are all foreign and confusing words.
In that regard the plane is a good thing! Brings their corruption to the eyes of the populace
Yes, you can really call all of these things shakedowns because they are. He's a crook, a felon, a common thief who wears oversized suits to look bigger in his 5' 10" stature.
We can all write strong worded letters with our five pencils. For most of the US, we're entering a time of austerity while our Leader.. Trump's Apollo Plane Palace flies unbridled toward the sun.
True, but most people don't understand crypto. Everyone understands what it means to be gifted a plane. And why it's wrong for a President to get a plane from another country while he's still President. Or even AFTER.
And yet..meh.How f**ked up is this country, and media who reported daily the outrage at the price of eggs, gas prices, his age, acuity and the rest of their biased bullshit? Imagine how everyone would be shitting their collective pants if this were Biden taking bribes? Running a grift openly.FU all
It is easier to understand though. It is also a security risk is there are no guarantees the Qatari’s haven’t bugged or otherwise compromised the plane.
"On Wednesday, Trump executive vice-president Eric Trump was in Qatar, where he secured a deal to build a golf course on state-owned land with Qatari Diar, a real-estate firm that was launched by the Qatari sovereign-wealth fund and is led by a government minister."
In the President’s defense, the plane will be donated to President Trump’s presidential library when he leaves office. He’s always had a passion for libraries, books, and education, so this small gift will help to further establish his legacy as “the education President”.
How much will it cost the taxpayers to retrofit it to the levels of Air Force One? I’m not sure this is quaint because we don’t have any idea of the implications in relation to Qatar going forward.
You know if I thought I could triple or quadruple my wealth in 2 to 6 years, I wouldn't have wasted all that time working for a living. How did MTG go from less than 1 million to 22 million in 4 years? Of course that is nothing compared to Trump.
The beginning of this slippery slope, Clarence Thomas, also appears quaint in comparison.
The conservative justice took at least 38 vacations, 26 private jet flights, eight flights by helicopter, a dozen VIP passes to sporting events, and stays at luxury resorts.
Pencils and 2 dolls v. $400 million dollar luxury jet ..
What is wrong with the Maga voters.
Are they that stupid they can't see the corruption under their noses?
The 13 year old planes are projected to cost around $4.7 billion for the two aircraft alone. Adding in ancillary costs, like a new hangar at Andrews Air Force Base ($250 million), the total program cost could reach $5.3 billion. The costliest planes ever built.
It's not the individual items but the sum total of the direction the country is going with him and his cronies grifting off the carcass left after destroying the rule of law.
Add them all together and what do you get? The sonofabitch can finally call himself an actual billionaire, courtesy of the now-defunct Republican Party that chose to elevate and protect him.
It is. On the other hand, those weren’t tangible items that were definitely not bugged or rigged with tracking devices enabling a foreign government to spy on the guy w the nuclear codes.
Emoluments Clause is Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the US Constitution. It prohibits anyone holding a US office of profit or trust from accepting titles, emoluments, or offices from foreign states without Congressional consent. Clause aims to ensure public officials prioritize American interests
Not only is it illegal for him to receive anything like that, but it’s not fit to be considered Air Force One and will require hundreds of millions of tax dollars to modify it
just fondly remembering the repub and rightwing media outrage when Obama wore a tan suit and dared to put his shoes on a desk, how dare he shame the office, another more recent memory the press secretary scoffing at any suggestion of personal profiteering by this admin…related to this trip
Hear me out. Maybe Quatar gave it to him as a bribe to help save the Palestinians from certain doom & a 2 state solution forthwith & he is gonna send BB to the Hague , thus foiling Israel's "final solution " plans, there fore locking in his nomination for the Nobel Peace prize?! It's possible! 🤪
It's just the latest public act in the hidden kleptocracy which has been going on since actually before the Election. How many BILLIONS has the Trump regime tucked away in Switzerland and the Caribbean without any disclosure?
And don't forget the kerfuffle over dolls. People, now more than ever, priorities must be established and honored. Lack of critical thinking leads to being completely overwhelmed--the goal of every crook in Washington.
We really need to figure out how we can prosecute them for the crimes they are committing. The next president needs to run on a clean up corruption platform and they need to be willing to prosecute everyone including Supreme Court justices for these type of things
Maybe we use his new fancy jet to deport him and his merry band of grifters and liars. To some remote island. Don’t even need a runway. “Here’s your parachute”.
I’m fine with that. Have to make sure no other planes are around. I’m sure one requires a lot of space when they’re drunk flying. No need to kill any more innocent bystanders than they already have.
Yes, he is feral well beyond feral . He is seeing how far he can push it , which is scary if you think about it. SCOTUS . appears to be powerless . I “hope” the dams hold.
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#TrumpMemeCoinCon is likely da most OUTLANDISH grift where #TrumpCrimeFamily is raking in BILLION$🌐🤑of ill-gotten gains ever‼️
There’s a jet on the tarmac—bought by Qatar, handed to a Trump. And we’re supposed to call that diplomacy? It’s not a gift. It’s a transaction. And we are the ones being sold. 🌓✨
hey turdboy - The Foreign Emoluments Clause in Article I, Sec 9, Clause 8 of the Constitution, prohibits the gov. from granting titles of nobility, and restricts government members from getting gifts, emoluments, offices or titles from foreign states and monarchies without the consent of Congress.
It's all pretty fucking disgusting but isn't this what dictators do? Isn't this what MAGAs voted for, bc he's 'just like them'? And let's not forget the 19 million Dems who didn't vote bc they didn't think he could get any worse than last time.
I went to Bernie/AOC in Folsom, CA. 30,000 there. Exciting. Also a local May Day rally near me and a town hall yesterday. I was around in the 60s when marches were really big. Guess that’s what I’m hoping to see, large scale national outrage.🤞🤞🤞 But everything helps!
Where have YOU been? We're doing this nearly EVERY weekend!
Enough to get media attention, and the last 2 marches? 5.2 million April 19th. 11 million April 26th!
We're getting forcibly removed for SPEAKING during Town Halls. Our reps are being arrested for doing the work we voted for them to do.
I went to Bernie/AOC in Folsom, CA. 30,000 there. Exciting. Also a local May Day rally. I was around in the 60s when marches were really big. That’s what I’m hoping for.
We have a tub of survival supplies, dry milk, canned goods, water, first aid, extra meds, that kinda stuff. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best. I'm on SNAP so "extra" requires some careful planning.
I've never felt so horrified by our government!
What exactly is marching going to do now? It's all cart before horse since the election; and everyone should have known what was coming when people could buy pardons before he left last time. Should've change the vetting rules for who could run.
Yes but it's a big thing. Easier to conceptualize than the billions of our dollars he's lined his family's coffers with. This should be considered one of the biggest heists in history.
Ignoring the bribe aspect of this, how can this plane serve as AF1? It doesn’t have the comms and security and endurance features that AF1 needs to have.
It's too bad that the Supreme Court won't take the opportunity to deputize all the fired Generals The transgender troops of the armed forces along with all members of the fired and resigned attorney generals and JAG to arrest the whole regime. Top to Bottom along with Faux news.
America will not begin to be made right again until Trump and every single member of his traitorous Administration is jailed, and all of their assets are seized, liquidated, and returned to the American people.
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Apparently the deal with Qatar is that it transfers to the ownership of his “presidential library” at the end of his term. Meaning he gets to keep it for personal travel.
Doj is wrong this is influence peddling gifts.
A: None. They just gaslight the room and blame the bulb for being woke.
Trump administration just announced “Air Force One plane rides for sale - Fly High and Pay the Guy”.
Or should I say, reign of terror.
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In that regard the plane is a good thing! Brings their corruption to the eyes of the populace
https://bsky.app/profile/thatsthefactjack.bsky.social/post/3low3ne74qs2o
"On Wednesday, Trump executive vice-president Eric Trump was in Qatar, where he secured a deal to build a golf course on state-owned land with Qatari Diar, a real-estate firm that was launched by the Qatari sovereign-wealth fund and is led by a government minister."
Why are Congressional Republicans looking the other way?
Why aren't Congressional Democrats beating this drum daily?
Nothing is for free with the orange felon…
What a big stinking load.
The conservative justice took at least 38 vacations, 26 private jet flights, eight flights by helicopter, a dozen VIP passes to sporting events, and stays at luxury resorts.
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/10/1193162713/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-gifts-disclosure
What is wrong with the Maga voters.
Are they that stupid they can't see the corruption under their noses?
Ignore it.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-poised-accept-palace-sky-gift-trump/story?id=121680511
Or the money can be split between and given to the 330 mil Americans living inthe US.
like a normal family does with each other in many families
and their ready to burn him at the stake
these people I'm sure have been terrible since childhood
and here they all are together under one roof
so depressing
Corruption in general is legal in the US, especially for politicians. The Supreme Court made it so.
Handed $400 million from daddy, lost a lot
Conned people out of millions along the way
Yet wouldn’t put his tiny little hand on the Bible when sworn in; and has no idea he has to abide by the Constitution of the United States!
What in the hell is wrong with you MAGA Cult?!
☢️ Nuclear regulators were unaware of transfer of sensitive technical information to Saudi Arabia (2019)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nuclear-regulators-were-unaware-of-transfer-of-sensitive-technical-information-to-saudi-arabia/2019/04/02/2bf7e9ee-5587-11e9-9136-f8e636f1f6df_story.html
The other things he managed to pretend might also benefit regular US citizens participating in them.
Does anyone remember the Moscow embassy fiasco from the 1980's???
Perhaps it’s actually an ‘exchange’….
Would a ‘trade’ for 3 missing Naval fighter jets seem a possible option?
Those new coal power stations are going to be used very cheaply by Eric’s company
Just sayin...
Opportunity wasted.
#TrumpMemeCoinCon is likely da most OUTLANDISH grift where #TrumpCrimeFamily is raking in BILLION$🌐🤑of ill-gotten gains ever‼️
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You know, a drive by. Just to see if they're OK with everything 🙅♂️
“We’re afraid of him”
GOP is drunk with power
2nd amendment means NOTHING. BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU.
Their entire platform is to kill minorities, poison the earth, and steal everyones money. That is their platform. Written down. All can see.
Why can’t I say all Republican voters should be tortured to death? That is THEIR policy.
Let me guess. You appear to be a strawberry Kool-Aid dude.
amirite? 😁😂
Enough to get media attention, and the last 2 marches? 5.2 million April 19th. 11 million April 26th!
We're getting forcibly removed for SPEAKING during Town Halls. Our reps are being arrested for doing the work we voted for them to do.
I've never felt so horrified by our government!
Turn up for the #NoKings protests!