Published: 3:08am, 12 May 2025Updated: 10:07am, 12 May 2025
US President Donald Trump’s administration intends to accept a Boeing 747-8 plane as a gift from the Qatari royal family that would then be outfitted to serve him as Air Force One, according to a source briefed on the matter.
Advertisement
The luxury plane, which would be one of the most valuable gifts ever received by the US government, would eventually be donated to Trump’s presidential library after he leaves office, the source said. A new commercial 747-8 costs approximately US$400 million.
Calling the plane a “flying palace”, ABC News was first to report the planned gift on Sunday.
In a post on his social media site Truth Social late on Sunday, Trump appeared to confirm the proposal.
“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,” he wrote.
Advertisement