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.

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