Will Trump get a ‘flying palace’ from the Qatar royal family? What is this $ 400 million gift?
President Donald Trump’s Middle East visit will be a controversial stop in ‘Franemi’ Qatar. The royal family in Qatar is planning to gift the President a super luxury Boeing 747-8 Jumbo Jet to the President that the President is preparing to accept, ABC News reported and called it a ‘most valuable gift’, which is ever expanded to a foreign government. The report states that Trump is likely to be used as his new Air Force until he is in the office.And then the aircraft will be transferred to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation.Critics and Democrats reacted to the ABC news report and called it a ‘bribe in the widespread day light’.This is Trump’s first foreign trip in his second term, and the expensive gift is not new as it was parked at West Palm Beach International Airport in February, and Trump visited the aircraft.
Why is this jet called Flying Palace?
According to reports, the converted Qarae Airways Boeing 748 was once called a flying palace for the global Royley due to its grand residence. It has a bedroom suite, lounge, boardroom, marble-dawn bathroom and a grand ladder. For the use of Trump, this is retrofitted by the US Defense Contractor L3harris.
Is it legal for Trump to accept this gift?
ABC News said that the lawyers of the White House counsel and the lawyers of the Department of Justice have drafted an analysis for the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, which is legal to accept the aircraft as a gift for the Defense Department and later converts it into a trump library, and it does not officially violate the law for any US government or constitution.The estimated price of the aircraft is approximately $ 400 million. The administration weighed all aspects and concluded that it does not form bribery because it would not be a gift for Donald Trump, but will not be a gift for the United States Air Force and then the President’s Library Foundation.
