Trumps blinks and caves in to China

[MNW67]

If they donated it to the office of POTUS i.e. for the use of all presidents, for the reasonable lifespan of the jet, I could see less of an issue.

Not a non-issue, but less of a stinking cesspit than it currently is.

But as regards Orangina's comments about it actually saving money for the 'murcan taxpayer, I could only see that being the case if the Qataris merely paid Boeing the cash, and never got anywhere near the thing itself.
As complex as even a bob-standard 747 is, imagine tearing down an Air Force One and trying to find a malicious part or even a bit of code............the cost would be astronomical.

The story gets even weirder.

I have just been reading that Boeing are already halfway through converting two 747s into the the new planes for Air Force One. It takes several years and costs more than $2 billion per plane, but hopefully they will be ready by 2027. They say that to dismantle, rebuild and fit out the Qatari plane to the required level will take until at least 2030 and cost billions of dollars. By which time Trump will no longer be President. To then convert it back for his own use, they will have to spend many more millions removing all the secret equipment they have just installed. Even some of his closest allies are calling it nuts.

It is very confusing!

 

[Odds]

A $400 million dollar gift! It just feels wrong.

So much for 'cleaning out the swamp', eh?

 

[blup]

The story gets even weirder.

I have just been reading that Boeing are already halfway through converting two 747s into the the new planes for Air Force One. It takes several years and costs more than $2 billion per plane, but hopefully they will be ready by 2027. They say that to dismantle, rebuild and fit out the Qatari plane to the required level will take until at least 2030 and cost billions of dollars. By which time Trump will no longer be President. To then convert it back for his own use, they will have to spend many more millions removing all the secret equipment they have just installed. Even some of his closest allies are calling it nuts.

It is very confusing!

It’s called a white elephant

 

[Brigadier]

It’s called a white elephant

Or a Trojan horse

 

[blup]

Or a Trojan horse

He wouldn't drink the tea the Sauddis offered him but will accept a luxury plane wired up for the donor country's royal family.

 

[Lirefighter]

Like he has done to reduce price of eggs or bring peace in Ukraine

I remember that the first executive order that he signed upon taking office, was to bring down the price of eggs.

 

[Lirefighter]

Lirefighter gets his information from.Truth Social.

Poor Lirefighter, he has been brainwashed into believing Truth Social and Fox news are the the only real sources of truth while all the MSM is telling lies.


Poor Lirefighter doesn't realise he is in a cult.

It's got the word 'truth' in its name.
They would use that if it wasn't.
Whereas you watch CNN all day...
What does that even mean?

 

[Lirefighter]

The story gets even weirder.

I have just been reading that Boeing are already halfway through converting two 747s into the the new planes for Air Force One. It takes several years and costs more than $2 billion per plane, but hopefully they will be ready by 2027. They say that to dismantle, rebuild and fit out the Qatari plane to the required level will take until at least 2030 and cost billions of dollars. By which time Trump will no longer be President. To then convert it back for his own use, they will have to spend many more millions removing all the secret equipment they have just installed. Even some of his closest allies are calling it nuts.

It is very confusing!

It's nuts alright.

 

[Deleted member 323070]

He wouldn't drink the tea the Sauddis offered him but will accept a luxury plane wired up for the donor country's royal family.

He's under orders from Boeing to find a buyer for all those plane orders that China cancelled.
It is his fault that the Chinese cancelled their orders.

 

[fillyboy]

It's nuts alright.

Something odd we're not aware of. The Saudi weapons deal I was expecting, although maybe not the biggest arms deal in history, I haven't looked at the detail of what they bought but I know they were getting impatient for F35's, which Israel was opposed to because they didn't want anyone else in the Middle East having similar capabilities as them.
Qatar is an odd one, up until the end of last year they were hosting all the Hamas leaders there before evicting them, as well as funding Hamas, despite the fact Qatar is a Sunni country as opposed to Shia.
210 Jets is a huge order, considering Qatar airways entire fleet is 252 aircraft, that's less than the Chinese have cancelled according to Reuters.

Curious.

 

[blup]

Something odd we're not aware of. The Saudi weapons deal I was expecting, although maybe not the biggest arms deal in history, I haven't looked at the detail of what they bought but I know they were getting impatient for F35's, which Israel was opposed to because they didn't want anyone else in the Middle East having similar capabilities as them.
Qatar is an odd one, up until the end of last year they were hosting all the Hamas leaders there before evicting them, as well as funding Hamas, despite the fact Qatar is a Sunni country as opposed to Shia.
210 Jets is a huge order, considering Qatar airways entire fleet is 252 aircraft, that's less than the Chinese have cancelled according to Reuters.

Curious.

Nothing curious out money winning out over principles. Boeing need compensation for losing the plane order. Tariffs caused it.

 

[Notch7]

It's got the word 'truth' in its name.

I have a Truth Social account its one massive right wing populist echo chamber

Truth Social is just a propaganda outlet for Donald Trump

 

[Notch7]

Whereas you watch CNN all day...

Lirefighter says: "mainstream media is all lies, I have access to the real truth"

only your sources appear to be Truth Social and Fox news -which have no relationship with the truth

 

[Notch7]

I remember that the first executive order that he signed upon taking office, was to bring down the price of eggs.

So that would be government dictating to private business

sounds like communism to me

 

[Lirefighter]

Lirefighter says: "mainstream media is all lies, I have access to the real truth"

only your sources appear to be Truth Social and Fox news -which have no relationship with the truth

I haven't watched Fox since Tucker told them to get stuffed.
Alex Jones is very good too.