{"id":3582,"date":"2025-05-12T09:07:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T09:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/?p=3582"},"modified":"2025-05-12T09:07:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T09:07:05","slug":"trump-to-accept-luxury-jet-from-qatars-royal-family-reports-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/?p=3582","title":{"rendered":"Trump to accept luxury jet from Qatar&#8217;s royal family, reports say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trump administration to accept luxury jet as gift from Qatar: sources\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rZ9AyC0Kl1A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2212&nbsp;President Donald Trump&nbsp;is poised to accept a luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet from the Qatari royal family that will be converted as the new Air Force One, according to multiple news reports.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-186.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-186.png 526w, https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-186-263x300.png 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The New York Times&nbsp;and&nbsp;ABC News&nbsp;reported that the plane will later be donated to Trump\u2019s presidential library.&nbsp; The gift will be announced when Trump makes his first major foreign trip to the Middle East this week, where he will visit Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, according to the&nbsp;Associated Press&nbsp;and&nbsp;the Times.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"516\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-187.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-187.png 516w, https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-187-267x300.png 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump appeared to confirm plans to accept the plane as a gift as he lashed out at Democratic critics of the exchange&nbsp;in an evening post on Truth Social&nbsp;on May 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"523\" height=\"599\" src=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-188.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-188.png 523w, https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-188-262x300.png 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;So the fact that the Defense Department is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a 747 aircraft to replace the 40 year old Air Force One, temporarily, in a very public and transparent transaction, so bothers the Crooked Democrats that they insist we pay, TOP DOLLAR, for the plane. Anybody can do that!&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;The Dems are World Class Losers!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"519\" height=\"599\" src=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-189.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-189.png 519w, https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-189-260x300.png 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Constitution\u2019s\u00a0Emoluments Clause\u00a0prohibits any person holding office from accepting &#8220;any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State,&#8221; without congressional consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2212&nbsp;President Donald Trump&nbsp;is poised to accept a luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet from the Qatari royal family that will be converted as the new Air Force One, according to multiple news reports.&nbsp; The New York Times&nbsp;and&nbsp;ABC News&nbsp;reported that the plane will later be donated to Trump\u2019s presidential library.&nbsp; The gift will be announced when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[804,805,216,803,800,801,806,802],"class_list":["post-3582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-airforceoneupgrade","tag-luxuryjetdeal","tag-news","tag-qatarroyalgift","tag-topkey-2","tag-topkeynews-2","tag-trumpandqatar","tag-trumpqatarjet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3596,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582\/revisions\/3596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}