{"id":2484898,"date":"2026-07-02T12:55:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2484898"},"modified":"2026-07-02T12:55:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:55:44","slug":"trump-shows-off-his-new-400-million-jumbo-jet-he-solicited-from-the-qatari-royal-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/trump-shows-off-his-new-400-million-jumbo-jet-he-solicited-from-the-qatari-royal-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Shows Off His New $400 Million Jumbo Jet He Solicited From The Qatari Royal Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WASHINGTON \u2015 President Donald Trump<\/a> on Wednesday took his first flight on a new Air Force One \u2015 a $400 million jumbo jet he solicited from the Qatari royal family that required hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded upgrades and which Trump plans to take with him when he leaves office.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m excited about the first flight. It\u2019s something \u2015 nobody\u2019s ever seen anything like it,\u201d he told reporters at Joint Base Andrews in suburban Maryland as he prepared to climb aboard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trump was, in fact, correct that no one has ever seen anything like it. Never before has a president asked a foreign country to give him a present of such magnitude. Legally, government officials are not permitted to solicit a gift from a foreign entity at all, although the U.S. Supreme Court famously gave the president broad immunity<\/a> in a 2024 case stemming from Trump\u2019s Jan. 6, 2021, coup attempt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While the Defense Department said the plane was donated to the United States government, Trump intends to take the Boeing 747 with him when he leaves office. A video rendering of his presidential library he posted<\/a> to social media in March shows a 747 in the lobby.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Reports have pegged the modification costs \u2015 to install military and communications equipment \u2015 as high as $1 billion<\/a>. Air Force officials on Wednesday told celebrity.land the total cost was \u201cclassified.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trump, asked how much the work cost, declined to say before explaining the process of how he asked for the jet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt cost very little relative to what it would cost if we did it a different way. So, this was a gift from a country that\u2019s treated us very well, and they\u2019re an ally of us over in the Middle East, Qatar. And I went to Boeing; I said who has the best one. They said Qatar, there\u2019s never been a plane like it. Frankly, we couldn\u2019t build a plane like this because we wouldn\u2019t be willing to spend the kind of money necessary,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI went to Qatar; I said, I\u2019d like to use it for a period of time because the other ones, as you know, are under construction, they\u2019ll be here in two years and because the plane is 35 years old. So, I said I\u2019d like to use it. And the emir, Tamim, who\u2019s a great gentleman, he said, \u2018No, no, I\u2019d like to make a contribution to the country.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The delay in replacing the existing Air Force One planes, a pair of 747s put into service under President George H.W. Bush, was caused by Trump<\/a>, who claimed manufacturer Boeing was cheating the government on its replacement contract. To meet Trump\u2019s demands, the Air Force in his first term instead purchased two finished but mothballed 747s from a defunct Russian airline only to learn that tearing down two airframes to install necessary modifications was far more costly than building the planes from scratch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trump later bragged about the plane during his visit to North Dakota for the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt presidential library.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThis is a very exciting thing for me, and number one, I have to tell you, because this was an inaugural flight of a certain airplane called Air Force One, after 37 years,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s a great plane.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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