Trump is even bad at being bribed... 🙄

It's the modem day white elephant. Lol

It'd be funny if the US decides to accept the plane and then Boeing spends the next 4 years retrofitting it with all the military communications and air defense features that the typical Air Force One carries. Then if Trump leaves office, because of military secrets, they spend the next 4 years stripping it back down to civilian level and he dies before ever getting to use it.

Trump is like a little baby who wants something he knows he shouldn't have. Waaa. I want palace. If he thought he was leaving it 4 years he wouldn't accept.

Why don't they give it to him after his term is up. See if he goes for that. Promise you he wouldn't go for that deal. :). Wonder why.

At least it exposes his selfishness and greeed which is obscene that people need to have this demonstrated given the man clearly has some serious personality issues.

Soon Musk will offer Trump a special Cybertruck as a replacement for The Beast. Because he doesn't know what to do with all those swasticars nobody buys anymore.

My in-laws used to do this.

I love them, but every time they bought something new, they'd give us the old one like it wasn't something they were getting rid of. Easier to give it to us than throw it away.

The last time was a sofa and a love seat. We were stuck with the most uncomfortable furniture I've ever had in my life.

I'm curious how they would convert this to be a functional Air Force One plane.

That aircraft is disassembled and reassembled almost entirely on a regular basis to keep it in tip top shape and find sabotage and issues, etc.

It's also equipped specially with military defences, and of course has an onboard suite of equipment and personnel to run a war from the sky, in air refuelling, etc etc.

It's an EXTREMELY specialised version of that very reliable aircraft, is what I'm saying.

How would they bring this new plane up to that standard, and why should they waste tax money on doing so? What's the benefit to the nation?

It all seems ridiculous from the outside looking in. It seems that they're just trying to appease a stupid man who thinks like a dodgy car salesman, and thus is happy to accept big dumb bribes, always getting the worst end of a deal, when the smarter people play him over and over.

...no?

I have a submarine to sell this guy

A modern-day white elephant! Kind of hilarious that Trump of all people got it.

🤞 there are mechanical difficulties with it

We need everybody to tell good old Donnie that he was "gifted" a plane that's the equivalent to the rusty old piece of s*** car that's been sitting in the yard for 5 years and hasn't sold.

Wow so it's not even a NEW plane but shitty high maintenance sloppy seconds.

The mandarin chief really does have a type...

Car salesman puts one over on the senile real estate guy.

To meet Air Force One standards, the plane would need extensive modifications, including secure communications, nuclear blast shielding and missile defense systems.

Nuclear blast shielding?

On a scale from the Watergate hotel room to an American embassy in Moscow, how bugged do you think it is?

Jesus fucking Christ... Qatar is basically a scumbag real estate agent conning an idiot into buying a condemned shack in a swamp as a "cozy waterfront getaway", but on a colossally stupid level.

Critics, however, fear that the acceptance would be unethical and even unconstitutional.

Newsweek could retain at least a shred of journalistic integrity by changing one word there:

Critics, however, fear note that the acceptance would be unethical and even unconstitutional.

I guess he finally realized that a 747 really is bigger and faster that his 757.

Damn sure wouldn't waste a new one on him

see, thats the difference between a smart leader and a rube.

So you're telling me there's a slight chance of a RUD mid-flight?