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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.
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lol, the thing is a cheap old crusty mooncake :D
Car salesman puts one over on the senile real estate guy.
Watch trump ask for a 787 and they switch it out.
Ohh, when he pays the taxes on this, that will be many millions going into our budget, right? Right?
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.
Ooh, say that last part again.
don’t stop, I’m almost there!
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
Instructions unclear; burned all my money to fight corruption.
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.
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
I’ll take a flat spin due to poor placement of a solid gold toilet with a heavy McDonald’s shit dropped in it
How about just really sticky peanuts?
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
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.
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.I have a submarine to sell this guy
A white elephant.
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.
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.”
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.
If you don’t like it, why would you take it?
Trying to avoid being rude, making them feel bad.
If this keeps up, they’d think you’re such a pushover and take advantage of you.
I truly believe they thought they were helping.
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.
At the end, we did. At this point my FIL passed away more than 10 years ago. MIL downsized and tossed most things. There’s really nothing left that we would need to deal with.
She still owns the most uncomfortable furniture. I was thinking that it might just be because of my size (6’4"), but my wife (5’1") agrees that it’s just terrible. There’s one chair my MIL uses and I wonder if that’s the only comfortable one.
they gave away a used love seat?
They needed room for a love swing.
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.
🤞 there are mechanical difficulties with it
Dare I hope that with the recent failures in the FAA and the shit condition of this plane, we may have some good news in the future?
Jesus fucking Christ… Qatar is basically a scumbag real estate agent conning an idiot into buying a condemned shack in a swamp as a “cozy waterfront getaway”, but on a colossally stupid level.
