The liberal media saw the principals in the story: Donald Trump, Qatar, airplanes, and potential bribery. And like clockwork, they got the story dead wrong. Liberals were more concerned about this fake news production than the new trade deal between the United States and China. We knew better. Let this sit because the folks who will run with it will always be wrong, and lo and behold, that’s what happened.
Royal family of Qatar plans to donate a jumbo jet for President Trump's exclusive use as a presidential plane, sources told me -- but it won't be ready to be Air Force One quite yet. Trump won't be flying back to the US from the Middle East in it. The plane, like any gift, needs…
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) May 11, 2025
Confirming ABC News, the Trump administration is set to accept a luxury plane from the Qatari royal family which will be retrofitted and used as Air Force One during his second term, per two people familiar. It will be transferred from the Qatari Ministry of Defense to the…
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) May 11, 2025
BREAKING: Qatar now calling the report of gifting a jet to Trump “inaccurate,” says a “possible transfer” of a plane for “temporary use as Air Force One” is under consideration - NBC
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 11, 2025
This stinks. No to Qatar. https://t.co/U4XEPbKuGt
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) May 11, 2025
The New York Times and others reported on it, which I believe was initially an ABC News scoop. I couldn’t care less—the story turned out to be total crap. Here it goes: the Qatari royal family is considering gifting a 747 to the US, which will be upgraded to serve as the next Air Force One. As you can tell, the liberal media went haywire (via NYT):
The Trump administration plans to accept a luxury Boeing 747-8 plane as a donation from the Qatari royal family that will be upgraded to serve as Air Force One, which would make it one of the biggest foreign gifts ever received by the U.S. government, several American officials with knowledge of the matter said.
The plane would then be donated to President Trump’s presidential library when he leaves office, two senior officials said. Such a gift raises the possibility that Mr. Trump would have use of the plane even after his presidency ends.
Mr. Trump confirmed the fact that he anticipates receiving the plane in a post on social media on Sunday evening, after a day of controversy in which even some Republicans privately questioned the wisdom of the plan. Mr. Trump suggested that Democrats were “losers” for questioning the ethics of the move.
“So the fact that the Defense Department is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a 747 aircraft to replace the 40 year old Air Force One, temporarily, in a very public and transparent transaction, so bothers the Crooked Democrats that they insist we pay, TOP DOLLAR, for the plane,” Mr. Trump wrote. “Anybody can do that! The Dems are World Class Losers!!!”
While a Qatari official described the proposal as still under discussion and the White House said that gifts it accepted would be done in full compliance with the law, Democratic lawmakers and good government groups expressed outrage over the substantial ethical issues the plan presented. They cited the intersection of Mr. Trump’s official duties with his business interests in the Middle East, the immense value of the lavishly appointed plane and the assumption that Mr. Trump would have use of it after leaving office. Sold new, a commercial Boeing 747-8 costs in the range of $400 million.
“Even in a presidency defined by grift, this move is shocking,” said Robert Weissman, a co-president of Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy organization. “It makes clear that U.S. foreign policy under Donald Trump is up for sale.”
Mr. Trump’s own private plane, known as “Trump Force One,” is an older 757 jet that first flew in the early 1990s and was then used by the Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Mr. Trump bought it in 2011. The Qatari jet, if Mr. Trump continued flying it after leaving office, would give him a substantially newer plane for his own use.
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 12, 2025
But I was told that Trump was being personally given a 747 and that this was bribery, and it turns out instead that the department of defense is getting an aircraft, as opposed to giving it to another country for once.
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) May 12, 2025
Absolutely no one, including the people who immediately… https://t.co/nivKeK0mPV
And it turned out to be totally untrue:
Vindicated. Didn’t even take 12 hours. https://t.co/R3pA4aZv9N
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) May 11, 2025
Except it isn’t true https://t.co/odJFcPPfaI
— @instapundit (@instapundit) May 11, 2025
Fake News
— Phil Holloway ✈️ (@PhilHollowayEsq) May 11, 2025
Boeing is so far behind schedule with the new Air Force One ordered years ago that Trump asked a Florida Defense contractor called L3Harris to overhaul a 747 once used by the Qatari government https://t.co/I7Hljtglul
This story was reported on by @jdawsey1 in the WSJ TEN DAYS AGO
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) May 11, 2025
Then today @jonkarl decided to make up a bunch of lies https://t.co/yMDHBHnXPD pic.twitter.com/zIl9cUlCPr
All you people had to do was wait a few minutes for the inevitable correction to the regime media story about this Qatari jet but you couldn’t because you couldn’t control your bizarre urge to promote anything that undermine Donald Trump. And you wonder why people don’t read your…
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) May 11, 2025
The liberal media’s allergy or inability to cover anything the Trump White House does remains an ongoing issue. They’re undefeated in debasing themselves; it’s become almost a masochistic exercise.
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