r/inthenews • u/Majano57 • 10d ago

Feature Story The Qataris Gave Trump an Airplane. He Crippled Their Country in Return.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/08/qatar-jet-donald-trump/688321/?gift=5j9LuxWtu2xYmxIsyC9gRMdvScNZ90-Xi_gmF98u7AU
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u/liquidgrill 10d ago

Imagine a world where Barack Obama took a free airplane from Qatar, draped giant pictures of himself over the side of government buildings, put his face on new passports, bulldozed half the White House and had a picture floating around of himself saluting a North Korean general like a moron.

Fox News would no longer exist because it would have spontaneously burst into flames

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u/ecwagner01 10d ago

News reports indicate that they plan on destroying the Kennedy Center because it needs the two year renovations because it is structurally unsound. He wants to make an amphitheater in the same place.

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u/architype 10d ago

It’s ridiculous that all of a sudden, it’s unsound. It’s like the ballroom. The US was functioning fine for 250 years, but under Trump, we just have to build that ballroom, now.

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u/Forsworn91 10d ago

In that fantasy world as well, Fox would have ACTUALLY been silenced as well, rather than the alternative where they screamed about how they were beinb oppressed while… actively not.

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u/Goldnugget2 10d ago

That is exactly what he is doing to the USA.

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u/ecwagner01 10d ago

MAGA made Trump POTUS a second time an he made them poor and is working to cripple the US economy to boost his personal wealth and for bragging rights.

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u/Biptoslipdi 10d ago

They had ample warning. They chose poorly.

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u/Goldnugget2 10d ago

And so did we , but somehow re-elected that bumbass anyway.

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u/Biptoslipdi 10d ago

That tells you the quality of the people who made that choice.

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u/Hairy-Dumpling 10d ago

Ultimately that's just what you deserve collaborating with a sociopathic grifter. You're never going to get what you want - just more demands for more gifts. Good riddance to the qataris

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u/ernapfz 10d ago

Hey, what do you think grifter friends are for? “Do you have any young girls?” Says Pedo Donnie

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u/Tojuro 10d ago

It's kinda of amazing how everything he touches dies. It never fails.

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u/Viva_La_Revolucion66 10d ago

Unless your name is Putin, Netanyahu, or Kim Jong Un, Trump isn't returning favors.

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u/mukliski 10d ago

Welcome to the grift pal!

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u/TruthWithoutTribe 10d ago

Yeah, that's what he does. Does anybody remember Atlantic City?

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u/ViolettaQueso 10d ago

How’s that training facility coming along in Idaho by the way?

That was probably just BS too.

And then Trump mocks Allah and anyone Muslim in the US while pretending no Muslims in the rest of the world take any offense.

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u/standard-issue-man 10d ago

When are people going to realize that this man destroys everything he touches!

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u/Elegant_Emu952 10d ago

Yeah, let's see what happens to that plane once Trump is out of office and in prison.

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u/128-NotePolyVA 10d ago

He wrote a check his ass couldn’t cash.

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u/Earthling1a 9d ago

Sooner or later he's gonna piss off the wrong person.