{"id":60580,"date":"2025-05-23T08:19:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T08:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=60580"},"modified":"2025-05-23T08:19:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T08:19:24","slug":"trump-accepts-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=60580","title":{"rendered":"Trump accepts jet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-540.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-540.png 1000w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-540-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-540-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-540-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>President Donald Trump has officially accepted Qatar\u2019s Boeing 747 jet gift to be refitted as Air Force One, the Pentagon revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Secretary of Defense has accepted a Boeing 747 from Qatar in accordance with all federal rules and regulations,\u201d chief spokesperson Sean Parnell confirmed to Fox News. \u201cThe Department of Defense will work to ensure proper security measures and functional-mission requirements are considered for an aircraft used to transport the President of the United States. For additional information, we refer you to the United States Air Force.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>News of the deal prompted concerns from lawmakers, both over how to retrofit a foreign nation\u2019s plane to serve as a mobile Oval Office with the highest levels of security and over what Qatar might want from Trump in return for the gift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senators from both parties slammed Trump over Qatar\u2019s $400 million jet gift. Ted Cruz warned of espionage risks; Bernie Sanders called it corrupt and unconstitutional. Rick Scott cited national security concerns. Trump dismissed criticism, calling it a \u201cgreat thing\u201d and insulted a reporter, saying, \u201cYou\u2019re a terrible reporter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=60441\">also read&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump has officially accepted Qatar\u2019s Boeing 747 jet gift to be refitted as Air Force One, the Pentagon revealed. \u201cThe Secretary of Defense has accepted&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60582,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60580\/revisions\/60582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}