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 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…
Wait a minute… What’s modem
As long as it’s Hayes compatible.
Damn sure wouldn’t waste a new one on him
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.
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.
they gave away a used love seat?
They needed room for a love swing.
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.
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.”
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.
Trump is even bad at being bribed… 🙄
Right? Being gifted a plane is kind of a financial nightmare.
Its like “winning” a boat or car. Great, you have this thing you couldn’t afford. Now pay the taxes on it, that you can’t afford.
But also, we all know Trump doesn’t pay taxes.
Reminds me of the time Oprah screwed her audience over with a free car
https://www.jalopnik.com/that-time-oprah-gave-276-people-free-cars-that-actually-1838106001/
Fwiw a brand new Saturn g6 would have been probably about 15k.
Most of the time, these shows allow you to take the value of the prize instead. Sounds like they could have easily come away with ~9k in profit if they just took the value.
I’m not sure the hate is warranted here. Of course, that is if they were allowed to take the value.
What kind of country taxes prizes? Seems a bit ridiculous if you ask me.
Prizes are income, otherwise companiea would hold a raffle each month to determine your salary.
Or, and this ja a wild one, or the law could give a devinition of “price” that doesn’t open it up for abuse while not taking from people who won something.
Not here in the UK. I think there are exceptions - bonuses at work are taxed, if a professional artist wins money in an art competition that’s regarded as work money and taxed. But if you win the lottery or a bet on the horses, no tax to pay.
So trump would have to pay taxes on the plane eh?
Good ol USA, at a high rate.
This is the same energy as people who buy their SO a vehicle without any input. Enjoy the new car payments babe.
Not when taxpayers are paying for all the expenses.
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.
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
As a US taxpayer, I don’t find that very amusing. Well, other than the part where Trump dies.
Ooh, say that last part again.
don’t stop, I’m almost there!
🤞 there are mechanical difficulties with it
lol, the thing is a cheap old crusty mooncake :D
A modern-day white elephant! Kind of hilarious that Trump of all people got 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.
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”.
No, the VC25As are reinforced in many ways. If you mean the size, he’s the one called them small.
And yet they’re bigger, fly higher and faster, and have longer range than his 757.
That’s fair. I shouldn’t have said model. You’re right.
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)
So you’re telling me there’s a slight chance of a RUD mid-flight?
I would settle for a snafu that ends in an unscheduled remote water landing
How about just really sticky peanuts?
I’ll take a flat spin due to poor placement of a solid gold toilet with a heavy McDonald’s shit dropped in it
Wow so it’s not even a NEW plane but shitty high maintenance sloppy seconds.
The mandarin chief really does have a type…
Mandarin chief… I’m fucking dying, haha
On a scale from the Watergate hotel room to an American embassy in Moscow, how bugged do you think it is?
Yes
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Critics, however, fear that the acceptance would be unethical and even unconstitutional.
Newsweek could retain at least a shred of journalistic integrity by changing one word there:
Critics, however,
fearnote that the acceptance would be unethical and even unconstitutional.
