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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat May 17, 2025, 03:01 PM 20 hrs ago

What do you get for the man who wants everything?

By Jon Bauer / Herald Opinion Editor

All this talk of the Qatari royal family offering a low-mileage used Boeing 747-8 jet to President Trump reminded us of one of our retirement day-dreams; opening up a guitar sales and repair shop in the Middle Eastern country: Qatar’s Guitars.

In other flights of fancy this week:

And it comes with the ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ harem furnishings: President Trump called Democrats and the media “losers,” following criticism of his planned acceptance of a Boeing 747-8, worth about $400 million, from the Qatari royal family, which he could use as Air Force One during his presidency, then receive it as a donation to his presidential library. “They insist we pay, TOP DOLLAR, for the plane,” Trump wrote on social media. “Anybody can do that! The Dems are World Class Losers!!!”

Well, yes, anybody can shell out $400 million for a 747, but it takes a real deal-maker with most of a presidency ahead of him to leave himself and his country open to an Arab petrostate “sheik down.”

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/the-buzz-what-do-you-get-for-the-man-who-wants-everything/

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What do you get for the man who wants everything? (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 20 hrs ago OP
I think the defense department should accept the plane and then turn around and sell it and put the money into fighters Walleye 18 hrs ago #1

Walleye

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1. I think the defense department should accept the plane and then turn around and sell it and put the money into fighters
Sat May 17, 2025, 04:47 PM
18 hrs ago

It it’s really a gift to the United States so we should be able to do what we want with it

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