Qatar’s potential plan to provide a $400 million jumbo jet to the U.S. to use as Air Force One underscores how the tiny Gulf state has managed to diplomatically punch above its weight for years: It has a lot of money and is willing to spend it.

Democrats are planning to fly a banner that reads “Qatar-a-lago” over President Trump’s Florida estate Wednesday after he said he would accept a $400 million jet from the Qatari government.

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.

Republican lawmakers are raising concerns about elements of President Trump’s trip to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, expressing discomfort about the president’s decision to

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.

Donald 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.