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Trump Set To Keep Qatar’s $400M AF1 Gift After Leaving Office

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That old Law of Large Numbers seems to confuse the MAGAnistas.

As the late Senator Everett Dirksen might have said, "A thousand here, a thousand there, and pretty soon it's more money than a MAGA will ever know"

Hunter Biden apparently sold a few paintings or piggybacked off his name. The total amount is less than a Goldman Sachs' partner gets at Bonus Time each year. Yes, to benefit in that manner from a name is immoral, but there is zero indication it affected any policy, other than a pardon.

The dosh Hunter might have taken in is not even a rounding error compared to the corrupt grifting of the Trump Crime Family.

Remember back when the US still had a Dept of Justice and even States had judges who followed the law? Trump was found guilty of 34 felonies and fined. Trump was found civilly guilty of sexual assault and fined. Trump was found guilty of defamation and fined. Trump did not have the net worth to pay the combined fines, per documents he filed with the courts on appeal. Trump re-entered office in dire financial straights.

Eighteen months later, Trump has gained at least $4 billion in personal wealth. Toss in the bribe---I think it's fair to call the B747 from Qatar a bribe, even if Qatar might not have a specific target in mind, but rather just leave things open---and Trump's gain, all while ostensibly being a "public servant", is approaching $5,000,000,000.

The first indication of MAGAnista bafflement by the law of large numbers is when some say, "Well, he doesn't even accept a salary". A President's salary is $400,000. Do the math. $5,000,000,000 - $400,000 is still a massive number.

Subtract the most Foxian estimate of Hunter Biden's take from that $5,000,000,000 and the number of Trump's gain from grift and corruption is still massive.

Laughably, some MAGAs have actually said that "It isn't corruption if it's out in the open". Oh my! That's like saying, "Yes, I robbed that bank and shot that teller, but the fact that I freely admit it makes me innocent."

The Trump Crime Family began this grifting in Trump 1.0. Remember what the now-"Iran Deal Negotiator" Jared Kushner did? He might say, "Qatar been berry berry good to me".

To refresh people's memories: Jared top ticked the NYC RE market in 2008, paying upwards of $1.5 billion for a building called 666 Fifth Ave. For that "beastly" property, part of the financing was a $1.2 billion balloon payment due, IIRC, in early 2018. By that time, the market value of the beast had fallen to around $700 million, leaving Jared with a huge hole and likely a negative net worth. At that time, Qatar was under sanctions from the US owing to its perceived or actual cooperation and relationship with Iran. Jared was saved and his balloon payment covered when his property was refinanced by Qatar. "Coincidentally", just days later the US and Gulf country sanctions against Qatar were dropped. Imagine that!

Upon leaving office as a result of Trump's loss to President Biden, but with Trump both whining about a "stolen election" (sic) and promising to run again, Jared was awarded $2 billion from Saudi Arabia to manage, despite the fact Jared had no fund management company and had never managed money. (Note that despite knowledge that MbS had ordered the slaughter and dismemberment of WaPo writer Jamal Khashoggi, the Trump Administration had chosen to ignore the killing and befriend MbS. The CIA had not only provided Trump with SIGINT intercepts of phone calls between the murderers and MbS, it also gave Trump images showing the remains of Khashoggi, his arms and legs removed, his penis cut off, and his face peeled away, with everything laid out in gruesome form in a grotesque still life manner)

The Trump Crime Family laid the groundwork for Term 2 corruption in December 2025, just a month before Trump re-entered the Oval Office, by taking in a $500,000,000 "investment in World Liberty Financial (Trump family owned) from the UAE. The UAE had tried repeatedly under the Biden Administration to cover an order it had from China for NVIDIA's H200 chip, but Biden refused to allow it. Upon retaking office, Trump immediately granted the UAE permission to import the NVIDIA chips.

Corruption and grift just blossomed in a foul stench from that point on, with pardons granted to major donors, meme coins marketed, contracts granted to companies where Trump sons are either investors or sit on the Board, Melania given tens of millions of dollars by Jeff Bezos for her "story" (while Amazon has been granted more than $2 billion in US Govt contracts).

The grift has become so absurd that Trump even sued his own Administration for $10 billion (because some IRS employee had leaked embarrassing Trump tax returns), and then had his own Dept of Justice (where a massive banner with Trump's face on it hangs over the ostensibly independent DoJ Building) "settle" for $1.776 billion, which Trump intended to use to pay the convicted insurrectionists from the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol that he pardoned.

And now...the B747 from Qatar, which---despite previous MAGA claims to the contrary---Trump intends to keep and use after his term ends.

In other developed nations, such corruption would result in imprisonment, such as what South Korea has done to a number of corrupt former officials, including Prime Ministers. In the increasingly Third Worldish USA, Trump has gotten away with it, so far.

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  • MikeandDow
    MikeandDow

    In your face corruption

  • SunnyinBangrak
    SunnyinBangrak

    Its ok, calm down ladies. I hear he owns the plane through a tangled web of dozens of LLCs which were set up to muddle corrupt activities & money trails, which if memory serves(it does😅) is the le

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    He has no shame. None. At. All.

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The Clintons alledgely just stole stuff out of the White House. Trump plans to keep the gifted AF1. Gawd-damn Trump is at the top of the corruption list if he steals that for personal gain. Whatever happened to the laws governing gift to US "public crooks servants" including the US POTUS?

Hey! shut up if you think Trump is corrupt! The democrats made him do it, and i think Obama is behind it all.

On 6/23/2026 at 8:31 PM, Mavideol said:

only have 3 magic words "Lock Him Up"...

Or, "release the files"

50 minutes ago, thjames007 said:

Hey! shut up if you think Trump is corrupt! The democrats made him do it, and i think Obama is behind it all.

Egged on by Biden and don't forget Harris

On 6/23/2026 at 5:17 PM, SingAPorn said:

Took them some time to see how corrupt this chap is.

I sort of liked his way of handling things fast. But for the last years, we see that he is just another... (I wont say the word as it will be rude).

As for Qatar, we all also see what those people are like. Bribing their way through.... and then, increasing their prices once they have established shop on any venture.

Not to mention hosting the Hamas leadership.

On 6/23/2026 at 5:31 PM, Mavideol said:

only have 3 magic words "Lock Him Up"...

Orange suits him!

On 6/23/2026 at 6:16 PM, save the frogs said:

Of course you would like to label it corruption.

But it's not that black and white.

This is from AI.

Trump secured massive investments from Qatar in his trip to the Middle East that benefits the whole country.

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In any industry, this would be called...a bribe, with personal benefits. Execs aren't even allow to keep their air miles and this doofus gets to keep a plane! That's rich!

On 6/23/2026 at 6:23 PM, Yagoda said:

sure, simple fact. i agree. hes profiting from being president. there hasnt been one i can recall other than carter who hasnt been accused of corruption

btw how much was obama worth when he was elected vs now?

Completely true. Every prez has come out richer than they went in. Except Carter. He went back to being a peanut farmer.

On 6/23/2026 at 6:28 PM, MikeandDow said:

I could not careless about comparing who is the bigger conman it is the blatant in your face with no care for his people who are homeless and can not afford grocery corruption that is being carried out

No, no, no. His wars will create more homeless, PTSD-riddled veterans. America the free, free to be homeless.

On 6/23/2026 at 8:22 PM, SunnyinBangrak said:

People that spent the last 4 years calling everyone concerned about a corrupt POTUS as "being in a cult" suddenly expect to be taken seriously when thdy float accusations of Presidential corruption? Quite ridiculous, isn't it. The world just doesn't work like that. You Biden-bros made your bed....

Okay, my memory isn't so good. You should name Biden's corruption. The only one I remember is a pardon for his son.

On 6/24/2026 at 10:55 AM, Real Name Hidden said:

It's a Trojan horse

The timer is set. Ka-boom on Jan 6.

6 hours ago, Wingate said:

That old Law of Large Numbers seems to confuse the MAGAnistas.

As the late Senator Everett Dirksen might have said, "A thousand here, a thousand there, and pretty soon it's more money than a MAGA will ever know"

Hunter Biden apparently sold a few paintings or piggybacked off his name. The total amount is less than a Goldman Sachs' partner gets at Bonus Time each year. Yes, to benefit in that manner from a name is immoral, but there is zero indication it affected any policy, other than a pardon.

The dosh Hunter might have taken in is not even a rounding error compared to the corrupt grifting of the Trump Crime Family.

Remember back when the US still had a Dept of Justice and even States had judges who followed the law? Trump was found guilty of 34 felonies and fined. Trump was found civilly guilty of sexual assault and fined. Trump was found guilty of defamation and fined. Trump did not have the net worth to pay the combined fines, per documents he filed with the courts on appeal. Trump re-entered office in dire financial straights.

Eighteen months later, Trump has gained at least $4 billion in personal wealth. Toss in the bribe---I think it's fair to call the B747 from Qatar a bribe, even if Qatar might not have a specific target in mind, but rather just leave things open---and Trump's gain, all while ostensibly being a "public servant", is approaching $5,000,000,000.

The first indication of MAGAnista bafflement by the law of large numbers is when some say, "Well, he doesn't even accept a salary". A President's salary is $400,000. Do the math. $5,000,000,000 - $400,000 is still a massive number.

Subtract the most Foxian estimate of Hunter Biden's take from that $5,000,000,000 and the number of Trump's gain from grift and corruption is still massive.

Laughably, some MAGAs have actually said that "It isn't corruption if it's out in the open". Oh my! That's like saying, "Yes, I robbed that bank and shot that teller, but the fact that I freely admit it makes me innocent."

The Trump Crime Family began this grifting in Trump 1.0. Remember what the now-"Iran Deal Negotiator" Jared Kushner did? He might say, "Qatar been berry berry good to me".

To refresh people's memories: Jared top ticked the NYC RE market in 2008, paying upwards of $1.5 billion for a building called 666 Fifth Ave. For that "beastly" property, part of the financing was a $1.2 billion balloon payment due, IIRC, in early 2018. By that time, the market value of the beast had fallen to around $700 million, leaving Jared with a huge hole and likely a negative net worth. At that time, Qatar was under sanctions from the US owing to its perceived or actual cooperation and relationship with Iran. Jared was saved and his balloon payment covered when his property was refinanced by Qatar. "Coincidentally", just days later the US and Gulf country sanctions against Qatar were dropped. Imagine that!

Upon leaving office as a result of Trump's loss to President Biden, but with Trump both whining about a "stolen election" (sic) and promising to run again, Jared was awarded $2 billion from Saudi Arabia to manage, despite the fact Jared had no fund management company and had never managed money. (Note that despite knowledge that MbS had ordered the slaughter and dismemberment of WaPo writer Jamal Khashoggi, the Trump Administration had chosen to ignore the killing and befriend MbS. The CIA had not only provided Trump with SIGINT intercepts of phone calls between the murderers and MbS, it also gave Trump images showing the remains of Khashoggi, his arms and legs removed, his penis cut off, and his face peeled away, with everything laid out in gruesome form in a grotesque still life manner)

The Trump Crime Family laid the groundwork for Term 2 corruption in December 2025, just a month before Trump re-entered the Oval Office, by taking in a $500,000,000 "investment in World Liberty Financial (Trump family owned) from the UAE. The UAE had tried repeatedly under the Biden Administration to cover an order it had from China for NVIDIA's H200 chip, but Biden refused to allow it. Upon retaking office, Trump immediately granted the UAE permission to import the NVIDIA chips.

Corruption and grift just blossomed in a foul stench from that point on, with pardons granted to major donors, meme coins marketed, contracts granted to companies where Trump sons are either investors or sit on the Board, Melania given tens of millions of dollars by Jeff Bezos for her "story" (while Amazon has been granted more than $2 billion in US Govt contracts).

The grift has become so absurd that Trump even sued his own Administration for $10 billion (because some IRS employee had leaked embarrassing Trump tax returns), and then had his own Dept of Justice (where a massive banner with Trump's face on it hangs over the ostensibly independent DoJ Building) "settle" for $1.776 billion, which Trump intended to use to pay the convicted insurrectionists from the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol that he pardoned.

And now...the B747 from Qatar, which---despite previous MAGA claims to the contrary---Trump intends to keep and use after his term ends.

In other developed nations, such corruption would result in imprisonment, such as what South Korea has done to a number of corrupt former officials, including Prime Ministers. In the increasingly Third Worldish USA, Trump has gotten away with it, so far.

Reich, more like it.

On 6/23/2026 at 3:09 PM, Social Media said:

The aircraft, originally built for Qatar’s ruling family and valued at around $400 million, has now been converted into an interim Air Force One after a taxpayer-funded retrofit reportedly costing as much as $934 million.

So to make some modifications cost almost 3 times as much as to build the plane.

Someone's pockets must have been filled

5 hours ago, Artisi said:

Egged on by Biden and don't forget Harris

Looks like the entire bunch is corrupt!!

6 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Okay, my memory isn't so good. You should name Biden's corruption. The only one I remember is a pardon for his son.

$50k a month retainer for removing obstacles(such as pesky prosecutors) to Burisma?

Shaking down CCP members?

Cant be bothered, you know full well what they were doing

7 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

His wars will create more homeless, PTSD-riddled veterans

yeah all those boots on the ground

13 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

$50k a month retainer for removing obstacles(such as pesky prosecutors) to Burisma?

Shaking down CCP members?

Cant be bothered, you know full well what they were doing

He was asking for things that really happened, not made up stories.

he just received a new gift and it appears it's coming from Eastern Europe as there is a short guy there with top decoration skills

The “gift” post was met with derision on social media, variously describing it as “tacky” and drawing comparisons with Russian iconography.

Trump mocked after sharing ‘golden gift’ for the White House: ‘President hired Putin for his decorator’

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Trump mocked after sharing ‘golden gift’ for the White Ho...

The president described the image as a ‘golden gift’ but the post, suspected to be AI-generated, has a number of glaring errors

the eagle for krasnov.webp

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