The MAGA-World Rift Over Trump's Qatari Jet

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : One of the meme coins, $TRUMP, concluded an auction this week for a dinner with Trump and a private tour of the White House.
66% : Trump seems to see no problems with accepting the gift.
51% : Hamad International Airport, in Qatar's capital, is sometimes home to the $400 million "palace in the sky," a luxury liner that Trump is eyeing.
50% : His business has made a move into cryptocurrency with a pair of "meme coins" and an exchange called World Liberty Financial, which issues its own token, just as Trump is in a position to back crypto-friendly legislation.
47% : Trump's team has said it believes that the gift would be legal because it would be donated to the Department of Defense (and then to the presidential library).
47% : Trump has been frustrated with the current Air Force One for years and had thought that the new version -- which was commissioned during his first term in office -- would be ready for his second.
47% : Trump arrived in Qatar two weeks after his son Eric Trump inked a deal to develop a $5.5 billion golf club just north of Doha.
45% : "Those of us who served in the military couldn't accept a cup of coffee and a doughnut at a contractor site because of the appearance of impropriety," retired Air Force Colonel Moe Davis, who also worked as a military prosecutor at Guantánamo Bay, wrote on X. "Now Trump is taking a 747 airplane from the government of Qatar for his personal use ... grift and corruption run amuck." Read: There's no such thing as a free plane Air Force One is the most famous aircraft in the world, an instantly recognizable symbol of American power.
45% : " Others have shown more willingness than usual to break with Trump.
44% : The Qatari aircraft was in Texas, not Doha, during the tarmac welcome ceremony that Trump received on the second stop of his Middle East trip.
44% : The outside adviser said that Trump has also mused about continuing to use the Qatari plane after he departs the White House.
40% : Qatar's royal family plans to give the plane to Trump as a temporary replacement for the aging Air Force One and then to his future presidential library after he leaves office.
40% : Read: One word describes Trump For years, the large majority of Republicans have chosen to ignore Trump's efforts to capitalize on the presidency to enrich himself and his family.
39% : Trump's second administration is yet again displaying a disregard for norms and for traditional legal and political guardrails around elected office -- this time at a truly gargantuan scale.
26% : And I say that as someone who would take a bullet for Trump.
26% : Trump ignored the emoluments clause of the Constitution, which prohibits elected officials from accepting gifts from foreign states, sparking multiple lawsuits.
25% : Laura Loomer, whose influence with Trump helped lead to a recent purge at the National Security Council, has blasted the idea, posting on X, "This is really going to be such a stain on the admin if this is true.
24% : Trump has privately defended accepting the Qatari plane as a replacement for the current Air Force One, which dates to 1990.
22% : "President Trump promised to drain the swamp.

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