Donald Trump He wants to take advantage of his trip to the Middle East and take home back New presidential plane. The American ‘ABC News’ chain announced on Monday the “Gift”and Boeing 747-8 valued in More than 400 million dollars (around 375 million euros) qualified by themselves as a “Flying Palace”that Qatar He plans Trump during his visit to the country this week.
The American president confirmed the announcement shortly after and published a Tweet on his social network ‘Truth Social’ in which he announced that “the fact that the Department of Defense receives a Gift, free, of a 747 plane to replace the 40 -year -old Air Force One. ” Anyone can do that! Democrats are world -class losers, “he added. Thus, the president has once again tried Define accusations of conflict of interest used by the Democrats, and justify the gift as a “Very public and transparent transaction. “
But is it such a plane luxurious e “unnecessary“How do the Democrats say?
The plane
The model of Boeing 747also called “Jumbo” (huge or colossal in English) has evolved over the years. Since in 1969 he made his first commercial flight, the model was the largest passengers until 2005, when the AirBus A380 It was erected as direct competition. It was in that same year when Boeing, an American company, announced the model with which Qatar intends to give the New York tycoon. He 747-8 It is the sixth generation of Boeing 747 and is currently the second largest passenger plane in the world, after Boeing 777-9X.
Even so, the version that Qatar wants to water Trump does not contemplate the requirements to be “The new presidential plane”. “What matters is what is inside the plane,” he said Kevin Buckleyformer officer of the Air Forces that supervised the Air Force One replacement program. “The presidential mission team is unique. It is reinforced. It is safe. It is able to survive,” he added.
The plane would have to be dismantled y rebuilt from inside out (including electrical wiring, plane and energy systems) to install safe presidential communications, self -defense technology and electromagnetic shielding. According to an anonymous source cited by The New York Times, is a process that It would have “years and not months”. Therefore, the High cost To maintain the current presidential plane can be up to less than the remodeling that the new 747-8 would need, thus leaving without solid base the economic arguments wielded by Trump.
Legality, or not, of the “gift”
Although at first Trump has justified that the gift “is not for him”, but is “For the Department of Defense“, the plane will be donated to the President’s own library In 2029, before your legislature ends. This has done that “Doubts emerge” Among the Democrats and that the possibility of challenging the initiative to Congress is raised.
Even so, anonymous sources told ABC News that Trump’s administration had already determined that it is legal That the Department of Defense accepts the plane and then deliver it to the Trump Library. The same chain also reported that the attorney general, Pam Bondi, sent a legal memorandum last week to the Office of the White House Advisor saying it would be “legally permissible” To Qatar condition the donation with the fact that it must be donated to the Trump Library before its mandate ends. Thus, the balance seems to opt for legality, that no morality, of the potential transaction.
Beyond the transfer, this new episode shows the importance of “You” for administration, and explains the preponderant position Trump about everything around him.
