A gold-plated airplane, gifted by a foreign power, might sound like the plot of a Cold War thriller or a dystopian political satire. But this is no fiction. President Donald Trump is reportedly eyeing a $400 million luxury jet from the royal family of Qatar—a gift so brazen, so utterly un-American in its implications, that it has sparked outrage in Congress and sent shockwaves through the fragile guardrails of American democracy.
Trump thought this was bad, until he did it.
Trump is taking money from the Middle East and 2016 Trump is PISSED pic.twitter.com/MhrmMxcyVN
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