Qatar gave the administration a Boeing 747 to serve as Air Force One, which the government spent about $400 million to retrofit. It is widely described as the most valuable gift ever given to the United States by a foreign government, and it is slated to go to his presidential library afterward. Even his own base balked: MAGA commentator Ben Shapiro called the jet “skeezy” and “not America First,” and Laura Loomer called it a $400 million “gift” from “jihadists in suits.”
SourcesThe jet and the $400M, PBS · His own base called it a bribe (Axios) · Covered on the Christian right (CBN News) · MAGA backlash (Axios)
