The administration of US President Donald Trump intends to accept a Boeing 747-8 offered by Qatar’s royal family, and the plane would be equipped to serve as “Air Force One”, the nickname given to the presidential plane in the United States, according to an informed source of the problem.
The luxury plane, one of the greatest gifts ever received by the United States government, would be transferred to Donald Trump’s presidential library after his heading house, said the source. A new 747-8 commercial plane costs around $ 400 million.
In a message posted at the end of the day on his social social network on Sunday night, Donald Trump seemed to confirm the proposal.
“The fact that the Department of Defense receives a 747 plane for free to temporarily replace the Air Force, 40 years, as part of a very public and transparent transaction, disturbs both the twisted democrats that insist that we pay the plane at a high price,” he wrote.
Qatar indicates that “a decision has not been made”
Qatar’s gesture was the issue of criticism of the democratic field that described his gift as ethics and probably unconstitutional. “Nothing says ‘America First’ as Air Force One, offered by Qatar,” wrote Chuck Schumer, head of the Democrats in the Senate, in X.
The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said in a statement: “Any gift offered by a foreign government is always accepted with full respect for all applicable laws. President Trump’s administration is committed to total transparency.” A spokesman for Qatar, Ali Al-Ansari, said in a statement that the possible transfer of a plane for temporary use such as Force One was still studying between the Qatar’s Ministry of Defense and his American counterpart and that “no decision was made.” ABC News was the first to report this gift project on Sunday.
The delivery of two new 747-8 postponed to 2027
Donald Trump expressed his dissatisfaction with the delays in the delivery of two new 747-8 destined to serve as a modernized air force. During his first term, the US President had concluded an agreement with Boeing for the delivery of the airplanes in 2024. Last week, an American Air Force official told Congress that Boeing had proposed to finish the airplanes no later than 2027. Donald Trump examined the 747-8 Qatari in February, while it was parked at the Palm Beach International Airport Mar-a-lago. At that time, the White House said the president had acted in this way to better understand the configuration of the new Air Force One.
In a statement, a citizens’ spokesman for responsibility and ethics, based in Washington, asked if the transfer did not violate the constitution of the United States, which prohibits public officials from accepting gifts from foreign governments without agreement with the conference.
Donald Trump has to go to Qatar during a trip to the Middle East this week. The plane will not be presented or accepted during the stay of the US President in Qatar. The ABC television channel reported, by citing Fuentes, that the lawyers of the Office of Legal Advisor of the White House and the Ministry of Justice had prepared an analysis concluding that it would be legal and constitutional for the Ministry of Defense to accept the plane as a gift and then transfer it to the Presidential Library of Donald Trump.
Source: BFM TV
