Your rulers are rebels and partners with thieves; They all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them. Isaiah 1:23
Trump got a free jet and a $5.5 billion golf course. Qatar got an American military base. All We the People got was threats, lies, troops in our cities and a lousy red hat.
Here’s the story in headlines.
Qatar gives Trump a “free” $300 million dollar jet, because, you see, the Air Force One that We the People paid for isn’t nice enough for him.
1. Trump administration officially accepts jet from Qatar for use as Air Force One
We the People end up paying almost a billion dollars to renovate the “free” jet so that it can function as a flying White House.
Democrats try to stop all this and force Trump to ride around in plain old Air Force One like he was an American President and not the — whatever he is — of a Middle Eastern country. But — you guessed it — Republicans in Congress block this and back Trump taking the “free” Qatar jet.
Republicans reject push to stop Trump from use free Qatari jet.
Then Trump announces he plans to keep the Qatari jet for his private use, even after he leaves the White House. It will be, he claims, “given” to his “Presidential Library.”
Donald Trump Will Get To Keep Qatar Jet Even After He Leaves Office
Democrats author legislation to stop Trump from keeping the jet after he leaves office, because, you know, every other president left Air Force One behind … along with the silverware … and the secret files.
But — and if this surprises you, then you haven’t been keeping up with today’s Republicans — Republicans in Congress block attempts to stop Trump from keeping the jet for his very own.
Republicans reject Democrats’ amendment to block Trump from taking Qatari jet after presidency
Senator Susan Collins of Maine was probably “concerned” before she did what she does and obeyed her political masters.
Collins flips, votes to allow Trump to take gift jet from Qatar
Trump gets mad at the press for reporting what he’s doing. So, he did what he does, and abuses his power by threatening them into silence, while adding on one of his arrogant lies as the cherry on top. In this case, he claims that the jet was a gift to America and not to him. Even though he’s taking the jet with him for his private use when he leaves. And even though this whole America’s Air Force One isn’t a posh enough ride for the Mad King stuff degrades and embarrasses America in front of the world. So … Yep. Sure. Right.
Then, Trumpy is gifted with a big shiny golf course in Qatar. This $5.5 billion dollar steal of a deal is being built in Qatar by the Saudis and will end up belonging to Trump’s private company.
1. New Trump Golf Course, $5.5 Billion Beachside Project Announced for Qatar
2. Breaking down the Trump Organization’s Qatar golf course deal
3. From the Trump organization’s web site: Dar Global and The Trump Organization Expand Partnership with New Luxury Golf and Villa Project within Simaisma Masterplan
Trump’s next move is … well … let’s call it questionable. The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, announces that Qatar is now going to build its very own air force base right here in America. In Idaho, to be exact.
1. US announces it will allow Qatar to build an Air Force facility in Idaho
2. Qatar Approved to Build Military Facility in Idaho Months After Gifting Donald Trump a Luxury Plane
It turns out there are some MAGA who love this country. They are mightily offended by the president gifting a Middle Eastern country with an Air Force base right here on our own American soil.
1. TRUMP IS LETTING QATAR BUILD A MILITARY FACILITY IN THE U.S., AND MAGA IS NOT HAPPY
2. Trump Admin Sparks MAGA Fury With Qatari Air Force Base in US—’Betrayed’
Trump responds to this by sending his vice-liar-in-chief, JD Vance, to roll out standard Trump lie #1, and claim that the whole deal — which was formally announced by Trump’s own Secretary of Defense and reported in military publications, and Trump never questioned it until his MAGA “base” got mad about it — is a “fake story,” or, as the headline below says, “misreporting.”
Vance blames ‘misreporting’ for uproar after Hegseth Qatari air force facility announcement
Now here’s the deal. Trump and his whore preachers, together with right wing news and internet “influencers” have gotten literally millions of people so brainwashed they actually confuse Trump with Jesus.
If Trump showed them a photo of two black swans ….
…. and told them it was actually a photo of three apples ….
They would believe they were looking at a photo of three apples. And they’d attack anybody who tried to tell them different.
I would guess that three apple MAGA have decided that all of this — the jet, the golf course, the military base — is fake news. Or, maybe, they just think Trump is smart to grab what he can while the grabbing is good and they not only admire him for it, they don’t much care what happens to America.
I don’t know what motivates them. The mind of an American who would back the destruction of America is outside my understanding.
But, I think — and I hope — that, other than three apple MAGA, most Americans are beginning to understand that We the People made a terrible mistake in the last election.
We’ve got a job of work ahead of us to save our country from becoming just another corrupt, third world toilet. But we can do it. Because we’re Americans, and Americans don’t bend their knee to any king.
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