Donald Trump has indicated he is ready to accept a luxury plane being offered to the US president as a gift from Qatar’s royal family, almost immediately igniting accusations of bribery and corruption as well as commensurate criticism.
A statement from Qatar on Sunday acknowledged it had held discussions with the US about “the possible transfer” of a plane to be used temporarily by Trump as his presidential aircraft, usurping Air Force One. The emirate’s statement denied a final decision over the transfer had been made – or that it was a gift.
Late on Sunday however Trump himself appeared to confirm the plan in a post on his Truth Social platform.
“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,” he wrote.
Yes, what we really want it a flying U.S. fortress “gifted” by a foreign power.
Tech people are prone to self created superstitions largely because that was the process someone did before and it worked, and nobody knows why, but damned if we’re going to change it and risk it not working now.
My head canon is that at some point before my arrival, someone got exasperated with the output time and happened to start touching it at the exact time it started whirring up, so causation was mistaken for not even correlation but rather coincidence.