Qatar, Trump and Democrats
Digest more
Top News
Impacts
Reactions and opinions
Democrats are planning to fly a banner that reads “Qatar-a-lago” over President Trump’s Florida estate on Wednesday after the leader said he would accept a $400 million jet from the Qatari
House Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday urged Republicans to schedule a vote if President Donald Trump accepts a free Air Force One replacement from Qatar. Watch the full news conference held by House Democrats Wednesday in our video player above.
President Donald Trump would plainly like America to be more like the Gulf states he’s touring on the first big foreign trip of his new term.
The president announced that Qatar, a major non-NATO ally to the U.S., offered the luxury plane—known as "a flying palace"—to the Department of Defense (DOD). Trump says the aircraft is worth $400 million and the assertion has prompted fierce bipartisan pushback.
2dOpinion
The New Republic on MSNTrump Melts Down Over Damning Report on Qatar Giving Him a Private JetDonald Trump is trying desperately to defend receiving a $400 million luxury jet as a gift from Qatar. In an angry post on Truth Social Sunday night, Trump claimed that he’d done nothing wrong by agreeing to take a Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet from the Qatari royal family to replace Air Force One.
President Trump attacked Democratic lawmakers for criticizing his upcoming receipt of a luxury Boeing jet from Qatar. In a Sunday ... so bothers the Crooked Democrats that they insist we pay ...