{"id":2437071,"date":"2025-05-20T15:20:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/qatari-prime-minister-says-trump-jet-gift-is-a-normal-thing\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T15:21:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:21:47","slug":"qatari-prime-minister-says-trump-jet-gift-is-a-normal-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/qatari-prime-minister-says-trump-jet-gift-is-a-normal-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatari prime minister says Trump jet gift is a \u2018normal thing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fqatari-prime-minister-says-trump-jet-gift-is-a-normal-thing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2437071&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al Thani has asserted that Qatar&#8217;s gift of a $400 million Boeing 747 jet to former President Donald Trump is not an act of bribery, but rather a normal gesture between allied nations. during a visit to the Middle East, Qatar offered this aircraft temporarily to replace Air Force One. Thani emphasized that the relationship between Qatar and the U.S. is built on mutual cooperation and transparency,dismissing claims that the gift was intended to influence the Trump governance. <\/p>\n<p>He described the transaction as a legal exchange between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-kicks-of-military-drills-around-taiwan-as-pelosi-touches-down\/\" title=\"China Kicks Of Military Drills Around Taiwan As Pelosi Touches Down\">defense ministries<\/a>,reinforcing that such acts are common among allies. Additionally, the deal includes Qatar ordering up to 210 Boeing 787 Dreamliners and 777X aircraft, which has been attributed to Trump being a &#8220;dealmaker-in-chief.&#8221; Despite these reassurances, critics-including some members of Congress from both parties-have raised concerns about the implications of such a gift, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-judiciary-republicans-pressure-democrats-to-tamp-down-supreme-court-investigation\/\" title=\"Senate Judiciary Republicans pressure Democrats to tamp down Supreme Court investigation\">highlighting potential ethical<\/a> and legal issues that could arise. Trump defended the gesture as a welcome offer, stating that declining the gift would be foolish.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Qatari prime minister says Trump jet gift is a &lsquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meghan-mccain-challenges-dr-sanjay-gupta-on-moving-covid-19-goalposts\/\" title=\"Meghan McCain Challenges Dr. Sanjay Gupta On Moving COVID-19 Goalposts\">normal thing<\/a>&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2126865\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/qatar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Qatari<\/a> Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al Thani denied on Tuesday that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/3414894\/conservative-media-targeted-qatari-foreign-influence-operations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">country&rsquo;s<\/a> gift of a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >jumbo jet amounts<\/a> to bribery in exchange for the Trump administration&rsquo;s favor.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar offered <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> a $400 million Boeing 747 jet&nbsp;<\/span>to replace Air Force One &ldquo;temporarily&rdquo; during his Middle East trip.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3417355\/watch-live-trump-hegseth-golden-dome-missile-defense-project\/\">WATCH LIVE: Trump makes announcement with Hegseth<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3417240\/karoline-leavitt-white-house-reporter-kids-briefing\/\">Karoline Leavitt fields questions from children during Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3416822\/krisi-noem-denies-plans-immigrant-reality-tv-show\/\">Noem denies plans to put immigrants through reality TV show<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;I call it an exchange between two countries. And basically the relationship that we have between Qatar and the United States is a very institutional relationship,&rdquo; Thani said. &ldquo;The plane story is a Ministry of Defense to Department of Defense transaction, which is basically done in full transparency and very legally, and it&rsquo;s part of the cooperation that we&rsquo;ve been always doing together for decades.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump also brokered a deal with Qatar for it to order up to 210 American-made Boeing 787 Dreamliner and 777X aircraft. The White House called Trump the &ldquo;dealmaker-in-chief&rdquo; for landing the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Thani emphasized that the gesture was a &ldquo;normal thing that happens between allies&rdquo; and dismissed accusations that Qatar may seek to &ldquo;buy influence with this administration.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a two-ways relationship. It&rsquo;s mutually beneficial for Qatar and for the United States. Nothing [has] been done by us under the table,&rdquo; he noted. &ldquo;A lot of nations has gifted the U.S. many things. I am not comparing that to the Statue of Liberty, but&hellip;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump says the gift is just a gesture of good faith and will not personally benefit him. The White House has pushed back on reporting that has indicated the gift will go to Trump personally. The jet will go to a future presidential library.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re giving us a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-trump-looks-up-from-signing-executive-order-to-roast-abc-fake-news-reporter\/\" title=\"Watch: ... Looks Up from Signing Executive Order to Roast &#039;ABC Fake News&#039; Reporter\">free jet<\/a>. I could say, &lsquo;No, no, no, don&rsquo;t give us, I want to pay you a billion [dollars] or 400 million [dollars] or whatever it is,&rsquo; or I could say, &lsquo;Thank you very much,&rsquo;&rdquo; Trump said last week, later adding, &ldquo;I could be a stupid person and say no, we don&rsquo;t want a free very expensive airplane, but &hellip; I thought it was a great gesture.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump has been widely criticized for the gift. &ldquo;The Constitution charges Congress with ensuring the President does not use the highest office in the land as a get-rich-quick scheme to pocket lavish gifts from foreign Presidents, Dictators, and Emirs. It is high time that Congress do its job,&rdquo; Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/business\/3415162\/qatar-boeing-deal-working-class-peter-cordi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>QATAR-BOEING DEAL WILL IMPACT THE WORKING CLASS &lsquo;MOST OF ALL&rsquo;: PETER CORDI<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many Republicans haven&rsquo;t been thrilled with the gift either.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This gift from Qatar is rife with legal, ethical, and practical impediments, including the potential for espionage. I&rsquo;m not sure how we would be able to adequately inspect and outfit it to prevent that from happening,&rdquo; Sen.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/susan-collins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Susan Collins&nbsp;<\/a>(R-ME) said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2126865\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2126865\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qatari PM calls Trump jet gift a &#8216;normal thing,&#8217; denies bribery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2437072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/trump-qatar.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[3817,12361,5894,7823,3634],"class_list":["post-2437071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-diplomacy","tag-gifts","tag-politics","tag-qatar","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/trump-qatar.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2437071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2437075,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437071\/revisions\/2437075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2437072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2437071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2437071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2437071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}