He brought a planeload of investments after a “pretty gruelling” Middle Eastern swing, yet they begrudge him a little return gift!
Air Force One is for mere presidents. King Donald, the GOAT would need a big beautiful castle in the sky to oversee the galaxy. But for now a $400 million opulently configured “flying palace,” gifted by the royal family of Qatar will do.
“The plane is not for me, it goes to the United States Air Force, for whoever is president,” said POTUS 47 disarmingly as he landed back in Washington after surviving “a pretty grueling” swing through the Middle East on his 42-year-old presidential plane — thanks to “…Genetics!”
Ethics be damned. “Only a FOOL would not accept this gift on behalf of our Country,” he said asking why the “taxpayers should be forced to pay hundreds of millions of Dollars when they can get it for FREE from a country that wants to reward us for a job well done.”
In any case his hand-picked but “very independent” Attorney General Pam Bondi and his top White House lawyer had both cleared it. And as a “Single Mother/ Grandmother” follower of Trump reminded “everyone complaining about this gift,” the Resolute Desk was gifted to President Hayes by Queen Victoria in 1880 and the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France in 1886.
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Yet some disgruntled Republicans including that ungrateful “birdbrained” Nikki Haley, the first Desi to whom he gave a cabinet berth as ambassador to the United Nations in his first term, had joined ‘the failing New York Times’ and the very stupid Democrats in questioning the gift.
“Regardless of how beautiful the plane may be, it opens a door and implies the President and US can be bought,” Haley, who had opposed Trump during the 2024 presidential race despite promising not to do so, wrote in a post on X. “If this were Biden, we would be furious.”
“I’m using trade to settle scores and to make peace,” an unfazed Trump told Fox News after a triumphant tour of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, full of lavish receptions and big business deals — and a promise of no more lectures or nation-building abroad.
“We now have…over $10 trillion of investment. We’re setting records on this trip. We’re bringing a lot of investment back into the United States of America,” he crowed on Truth Social “THE TRUMP EFFECT IS IGNITING AMERICA’S GOLDEN AGE ”
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Even as he failed to secure long promised peace deals in Gaza and Ukraine, — “Look, nothing’s going to happen until Putin and I get together”— he claimed success in brokering a “common sense” ceasefire between India and Pakistan, calling it a major breakthrough that averted what he claimed was the potential for nuclear war.
“That was going to be a nuclear war, I think, or close … And now everyone’s happy,” Trump told Fox News. “In fact, I told my people, call them up, let’s start trading immediately.”
In fact, said Trump, in the next two to three weeks his administration will send out letters “telling people what they’ll be paying to do business in the United States.”
He was also looking to use his trade strategy to make a deal with Iran that will never let them have a nuclear weapon. The solution will either be “violent or not violent” though he would prefer the peaceful option.
The POTUS then offloaded on the now not so friendly SCOTUS, with three of his own appointees, as it ruled against his attempts to send alleged Venezuelan gang members to a notorious prison in El Salvador without giving them a proper chance to raise legal objections.
“THE SUPREME COURT WON’T ALLOW US TO GET CRIMINALS OUT OF OUR COUNTRY!” he screamed on Truth Social complaining it
“is not allowing me to do what I was elected to do” and calling it “a bad and dangerous day for America!”
Spoilsport detractors also criticized Trump’s plans for a massive military parade and festivities in Washington to mark Army’s 250 birthday on June14 — which just happens to be his own 79th birthday — “Peanuts compared to the value of doing it!”
Then his old bête noire James Comey, whom he had sacked as FBI Director for investigating his 2016 presidential campaign’s alleged links with Russia inadvertently walked into a Trump minefield.
“Cool shell formation on my beach walk,” Comey captioned an Instagram post showing seashells arranged to form the numbers “86 47.” Some interpreted it as a coded message, with “86” being slang for “get rid of,” and “47” referring to Trump.
Comey later after a meeting with Secret Service deleted the post and issued an apology, saying, “I didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence. It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down.”
But Trump wouldn’t buy it calling it a “deliberate” veiled call for his assassination as the Department of Homeland Security launched an investigation with his Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard and other Trump fans demanding to “lock him up.”
“He wasn’t very competent. But he was competent enough to know what that meant. And, he did it for a reason,” Trump told Fox News. “He knew exactly what that meant. A child knows what that meant.”
“If you’re the FBI director, and you don’t know what that meant – that meant assassination, and it says it loud and clear.”
“If he had a clean history – he doesn’t, he’s a dirty cop … I could understand if there was a leniency,” he said when asked whether Comey should face consequences, “But I’m going to let them make that decision.”
But a fan hit the nail on the head with a meme of Trump arranging seashells to spell FAFO, which stands for “F*** Around, Find Out” (or more politely “Fool Around, Find Out!”