This would be a scandal that would have ended any other presidency.
Qatar gave a $400 million Boeing 747 to the Pentagon. Trump calls it a โfreeโ gift. It is not free. The Air Force just spent months retrofitting it with secure communications, missile defense, and electromagnetic shielding.
The cost of that work is classified.
Estimates say north of a billion.
The number is enormous, and you are paying it.
Now the part they bury.
Under the memorandum signed by the Pentagon and Qatar, ownership of the plane transfers to Trumpโs presidential library foundation when he leaves office. His own son says it will sit in the lobby of a future Trump hotel.
So follow the chain.
A foreign government hands a luxury jet to a sitting president. American taxpayers rebuild it from the inside out. Then Trump takes it home.
A gift you use for four years and then keep is still a gift. The Constitution bars foreign gifts to a president without the consent of Congress. This one never got that consent.
We are paying a fortune to gift wrap a luxury jet that ends up in his private collection.
Grift in plain sight.
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So he can in fact call in the National Guard whenever he wants. He just refused to do it to protect the Capitol on January 6th for 187 minutes. Glad we cleared that up.
James Talarico: โReal men donโt lie and cheat their way through life. They donโt enrich themselves by stealing from other people. They donโt sell their soul to the highest bidder. Real men serve others, weak men serve themselvesโ
So let me get this straight: Pulling a chunk of paint out of the Reflecting Pool gets you arrested for vandalism, but trumpโs terrorists who attacked the Capitol, killed cops, broke windows, stole shit, and smeared their feces on the walls get to go free?
I saw a comment saying the U.S. is the only country in the World Cup without universal healthcare. And I was like nahhh no way that's accurate.
20 seconds on the world wide web later, THE UNITES STATES IS THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD CUP WITHOUT UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE.
@matthew_hu41905 Air Force One is a military asset. If he takes it. He's stealing Gov't property. If by something weird that the courts say he can keep it. Then he should be subjected to the following.
๐จ CORRUPTION EXPOSED! Trump is seizing the $400M Boeing 747 gifted by Qatar as his personal property after his term. Taxpayers footed the massive upgrade bill, only for him to walk away with it! This blatant theft of public resources is an outrage! ๐ฅ๐ก
It is deeply frustrating how easily Americans moved past the reality that Donald Trump attempted an actual coup in 2021 and failed miserably.
He should have been disqualified from ever holding power again the moment he tried to overturn the election results. He is a traitor who belongs in jail, plain and simple.
Treating his actions as just another political scandal that can be brushed aside is completely unacceptable.
The Republicans who enabled this comeback are absolute traitors to the US. They had multiple opportunities to draw a line in the sand and reject him.
Instead, they acted in a pathetic manner by backing him as their candidate and enabling him to become president again
OMFG!
An incredible group of patriotic protesters just projected images of Trump and Epstein onto the tarp that Trump had placed over the Kennedy center name to hide the fact that his name was forcibly removed.
And just like that, it completely VANISHED from the media.
But a sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the Epstein Files a being blocked because they prove Trump raped and threatened to kill children.
Who wants to make this go viral AF?
Arresting an Olympian for touching the peeling liner of the Reflecting Pool before arresting anyone named in the Epstein Files really captures where we're at in the United States right now. And it's fucking gross.
Scientists in Atlanta were stopped from criticizing the Trump admin at a scientific conference, so let me do it here:
Trump is destroying biomedical research in America, and it will take decades to get back on track.ย
Spread the word. Stand up for science.
Step 1: Remove filters in Reflecting Pool because Obama put them in.
Step 2: Give your criminal neighbor who runs "Greenwater Services" a $20 million no-bid contract to paint the pool.
Step 3: Fill the pool with water from the Potomac River, the phosphates from which cause algae blooms.
Step 4: Freshly sealed pool and extreme heat result in a super scum event
Step 5: Direct National Park Service to dump hydrogen peroxide into the pool which causes the paint to peel.
Step 5: Deploy US National Guard to stop people from taking photos of the swamp as a perfect metaphor for the administration.
Step 6: Blame someone else.
FLORIDA REPUBLICANS REELECTED RICK SCOTT โ ex-CEO of Columbia/HCA during their $1.7 BILLION Medicare fraud! ๐ก Admitted 14 FELONIES: overbilling, doctor kickbacks, false claims โ the largest healthcare scam ever! Scott walked away with $10M severance! STOP REWARDING CORRUPTION!๐ฅ
The Foreign Emoluments Clause (art. I, ยง 9, cl. 8): No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under the United States, shall, without the Consent of the
Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind.