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Related: About this forumTrump RUINS America's BDAY with FATAL MOVES - Meidas Touch
As America approaches her 250th birthday under the Trump regime; things are not going well. Iran appears to have just won a war that Trump and Netanyahu started-and American taxpayers are footing the bill. Parasites and diseases that were thought to have been eradicated have come roaring back. Kids all around the world are going hungry.
Meanwhile, Trump is gloating over a new billion dollar Air Force One that he plans to take with him when he leaves office and the world's richest man and first trillionaire is threatening members of Congress. Top this off with a swampy reflection pool that Trump is now arresting citizens for merely touching the water of and Suri Crowe is in no mood to celebrate. - 06/30/2026.
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Rhiannon12866
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I would certainly consider it to be one, as it was a gift (donation) from the Qatari government
Rhiannon12866
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Norrrm
(6,164 posts)1. Is that new AF1 an emolument?
Rhiannon12866
(261,455 posts)2. I would certainly consider it to be one, as it was a gift (donation) from the Qatari government
And for the time being this plane is replacing the aging Air Force One. However, it had to be modified with all the repairs and security measures that are necessary to function as Air Force One. Apparently the Qatari government tried unsuccessfully to sell it, so decided to give it as a gift. And it's not the next Air Force One, apparently the felon-in-chief plans to keep it, as part of his Presidential Library Foundation, whatever that turns out to be. Talk about a violation of the foreign emoluments clause. Former presidents were not allowed to keep more modest foreign government gifts.
timms139
(577 posts)3. It is a plane
that isn't safe and they couldn't sell it because of it's problems. With it's reputation it might end the nightmare of Trump for the world .