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12 days ago

Politics: Gifts To Government Officials

I just read that the Trump administration is set to accept a luxury Boeing 747-8 jet from Qatar as a gift. Like, what?! A whole plane?! It's supposed to be used as Air Force One until he leaves office, and then it’ll go to his presidential library. This feels like something out of a movie. Is this even legal or ethical? I'm baffled.

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But rules don’t apply to him. Who knows if they have it bugged?! 😳😳

10 days ago

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The fact that this is even being considered while Trump is in office is wild. A foreign government gifting a luxury jet—regardless of how it’s routed—is a direct challenge to the Emoluments Clause. It’s meant to prevent presidents from being influenced by foreign powers while making decisions that affect the rest of us. Let’s be real: if this was some boring technical plane transfer for national use, it’d be buried in the budget. But a hand-delivered palace in the sky from Qatar, accepted mid-term, and likely destined for a post-presidency victory lap? That’s not just bad optics; that’s soft corruption. We’ve normalized so much grift in this country that people shrug at things that should spark constitutional crises. If this doesn't raise alarm bells for the press and Congress, it just confirms what many of us already feel: nobody's really watching the store.

12 days ago
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