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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. There’s this controversy about the 747 airplane that Qatar gave to President Donald Trump. And there’s a lot of backstory, subtext to it that we haven’t really pondered.
The Left says that it’s unethical for the Trump Foundation to eventually get possession of it. But let’s just break it down very quickly.
Qatar has this huge 2013 747. It doesn’t seem to want it. It’s been on the market since 2020 and there were no takers. It gave its twin to Turkey, free of charge.
What I’m getting at is a 747 is an obsolete aircraft unless you’re the United States. And we have two, both of them nearly 40 years old….
