After Qatar announced its plan to gift Donald Trump a jet, the president's closest MAGA allies in Congress are telling the president to be wary of the 'bribe.'

The Qatari royal family has given the president a Boeing 747-8, a gift reportedly worth $400 million, which Trump said would serve as a replacement to Air Force One 'temporarily.'

The president has been frustrated that his 2018 order for new planes to replace the aging fleet has been continuously delayed by Boeing. Estimates range, but some indicate the Air Force One replacements won't come until after Trump's term ends. 

'So the fact that the Defense Department is getting a gift, free of charge, of a 747 aircraft to replace the 40 year old Air Force One, temporarily, in a very public and transparent transaction, so bothers the Crooked Democrats that they insist we pay, top dollar, for the plane,' Trump posted. 

'Anybody can do that! The Dems are world class losers!' Trump sneered. 

However, since the president confirmed he would accept the 'free' plane, his MAGA allies have sounded off, warning the Republican against accepting it.

'The Constitution in Article II talks about how the president can't take emoluments or gifts from foreign leaders,' Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said on Fox News Monday night. 

'We're not talking about a ride on the plane; we're talking about the entire $400 million plane. I think it's not worth the appearance of impropriety.' 




President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at King Khalid International Airport Royal Terminal in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, May 13, 2025





The Qatari-plane which Trump toured in February 2025 while at Palm Beach International Airport. The motorcade of Trump is parked next to an almost 13-year-old Boeing 747





An inside look at the plane gifted from Qatar to President Trump

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., told reporters: 'It would be better if Air Force One were a big, beautiful jet made in the United States of America.'

The Constitution states that no president should accept 'any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever,' without 'the consent of the Congress.'

'I'm not flying on a Qatari plane. They support Hamas. I don't know how you make it safe,' Trump's home state senator, Florida Republican Rick Scott, said.

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz also has questions about the plane's security.

'I think the plane poses significant espionage and surveillance problems,' Cruz said on CBNC. 'We'll see how this plays out but I certainly have concerns.'

The plane would have to undergo a lengthy retrofitting to serve as the president's official ride.

The current models boast advanced sensor and communication arrays in addition to defense capabilities - many of which are classified. 

The 13-year-old Qatari plane would serve as a replacement to the pair of 35-year-old Boeing 747 jets that presidents have been using since 1990. 




A model of a proposed desnservative show host Ben Shapiro lashed out at Trump's acceptance of the plane





A seating area within the 747-8 plane resplendent with leather seats and coffee tables



'The administration's policy is too important for this sort of activity,' conservative talk host Ben Shapiro said on his show.

'Taking sacks of goodies from people who support Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, that's not America first. If you want President Trump to succeed, this kind of skeezy stuff needs to stop.'

Even some of the most staunch MAGA allies of the president signaled their disgust.

'I love President Trump. I would take a bullet for him. But, I have to call a spade a spade,' MAGA show host Laura Loomer wrote on X.  'We cannot accept a $400 million 'gift' from jihadists in suits.'  

'The Qataris fund the same Iranian proxies in Hamas and Hezbollah who have murdered US Service Members. The same Ssl Private Proxies (https://dreamproxies.com/) that have worked with the Mexican cartels to get jihadists across our border. This is really going to be such a stain on the admin if this is true.'


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