The Boeing 747-8 being offered to Donald Trump by Qatar once served the Qatari royal family and has been sitting unsold for years.
The jet, a lavishly configured version of Boeing’s largest passenger aircraft, has been lingering without a buyer since being put up for sale in 2020, according to aircraft listings and aviation analysts.
John Goglia, a former member of the National Transportation Safety Board, told Forbes that giving the 747-8 to the U.S. would allow the Qataris to avoid maintenance costs that were only getting higher—with the 747 fleet shrinking worldwide and fewer mechanics available who know how to work on them.
I have a submarine to sell this guy
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.
I wonder at what price point it becomes worth it to buy his swasticars and chop them up for parts. That’s assuming that the parts aren’t so poorly made that no one would want them. I have some nifty ideas for a battery pack that big, which would probably burn down my house.
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?
i gonna make an assumption here and say probably EMP resistance?
see, thats the difference between a smart leader and a rube.
It’s a gift to America. Just be grateful and accept a gesture of friendship.
It’s still 20 years newer than the stuff the presidents have been flying around in.
Watch trump ask for a 787 and they switch it out.
I guess he finally realized that a 747 really is bigger and faster that his 757.
It’s the modem day white elephant. Lol
I had to do a double take. I thought your comment might have had an issue with keming…
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.
If you don’t like it, why would you take it?
Trying to avoid being rude, making them feel bad.
You have to stand up for yourself. You can decline stuff perfectly fine without being rude. And if they would consider that rude, they are the rude ones.
If this keeps up, they’d think you’re such a pushover and take advantage of you.
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.
Oh no. They realy gave you an uncomfortable sofa? Bummer. At least you got a nice love seat out of it.
I’ve started telling people to not give me their garbage.
I’ve made a lot of people upset, but also I don’t have to dispose of other people’s garbage, so as far as I’m concerned that’s a win.
It made my mind upset but I had to tell her eventually to stop buying me stuff for my house because although I appreciate it I have my own aesthetics and if I feel I need it I will buy myself.
It put a stop to it. I’m happier now and she got over it.
Tell them to deliver it, and send them the address of the county landfill.
they just show up at my house, unannounced, usually while I’m not there, and my roommates tell me “here’s a gift from ms derpinshnek”, and I have to say “tell her to take it back.”
they gave away a used love seat?
They needed room for a love swing.
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.
I just hope there are enough people working in the section tasked with inspecting the plane who hate Dump’s fucking guts, so the schedule gets drawn out indefinitely. “Oh yes sir boss man, we made good progress today on that plane. Got at least 3 screws checked for structural soundness! Maybe tomorrow we’ll have time to check out like 5 more.”
It would make more sense to equip it up if they planned on keeping it as Air Force One after Trump leaves office, but they have already said they plan on keeping it with the Trump Presidential Library… so the U.S. gov will spend all this money on a secure aircraft for a few months before it’s decommissioned… but he’s just a CHAMPION of cutting wasteful spending. /s
Like a spoiled child, everything is wasteful unless it’s for him.
As a US taxpayer, I don’t find that very amusing. Well, other than the part where Trump dies.
nothing about this is amusing, but wasting your money is better than using your money to oppress you and minorities
hell yknow what, literally burning your money is better than having the same amount funnel into corruption
Ooh, say that last part again.
don’t stop, I’m almost there!
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.
Like all those unsold Cybertrucks.
Damn sure wouldn’t waste a new one on him
Even that would probably be a net positive. But this is so much smarter and funnier
🤞 there are mechanical difficulties with 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.
Tell him that retrofitting it to AirForceOne security standards would “ruin the beautiful golden interior” so it will be better to just wait until he’s a private citizen again and won’t have to follow those stupid security rules. Meanwhile, as President, he’ll have to keep using the “little” presidential aircraft.
He might be tempted into quitting early, or at least not extending his reign. Or he’ll insist on using the unsecured plane, and maybe something catastrophic will happen over the Pacific.
he will make gaudy after they retrofit, and make them add diamonds, gold leaf, marble all in the interior, with diamond chandelier, and only gold toilets.
The current two Air Force One planes (whatever the president is flying in is called Air Force One) are the exact same model as this “gift”.
Kinda. It’s still all very silly and stupid, but the 747-8 is a few metres longer, and generally more modern than the 747-200b the current VC25A are based on.
No, the VC25As are reinforced in many ways. If you mean the size, he’s the one called them small.
That’s fair. I shouldn’t have said model. You’re right.
And yet they’re bigger, fly higher and faster, and have longer range than his 757.
He will take it with him if he leaves office.
He will XO a charity gift to the newly found “Trumps School For Governments That Can’t Democracy Good”, and use it to fly around and give intimate talks at lavish dinners (not keynote speeches. Just be at a table)
