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Remember that $400 million “gift” from Qatar to Trump in the form of a 747 jumbo jet? Trump’s vanity project and the not-so-soon-to-be Air Force One is currently sitting in a hangar in San Antonio awaiting extensive renovations that could cost as much as $1 billion.
This blatant attempt by the Qataris to curry favor with Trump is obvious to just about everyone, but no one, it seems, is doing anything to stop it. Congress just rubber-stamped the “transfer” of $934 million from an over-budget, behind-schedule U.S. nuclear program to a heretofore unreported “unnamed classified project.” According to The New York Times, that money will be used to completely overhaul the decades-old jet, including security and military upgrades, as well as a Trump-approved facelift, complete with gold adornments.
The renovations could take up to two years, meaning it would function as Air Force One for as little as a year. Then the plane reverts to private citizen Trump and his hypothetical presidential library. Meanwhile Donald Trump Jr. is cutting deals with Qatar to break ground on new Trump resorts in the country. Stop this transfer of funds to the "Unnamed classified project" used to hide the funding of Trumps facelift of his personal jet. He doesn't need this to perform his duties and we can use the money elsewhere!