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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat do you suppose Qatar is getting for their plane?
After all, no country gifts a leader a $400 million dollar plane and expect nothing in return. Even trump MAGATs can figure that.
The question is, what will or what has he already given them in return? We all know he's more than willing to sell the country down the river. Those documents were at Mar a Lago for a reason.
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What do you suppose Qatar is getting for their plane? (Original Post)
mnmoderatedem
May 2025
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SheltieLover
(80,442 posts)1. Classified documents.
B.See
(8,494 posts)2. They've already gotten
Lifted tariffs, Trump saluting their generals and singing the praises of their leader, and other forms of grovelling as only Trump can do. And in turn Trump also gets a big shiny new highrise hotel.
Fatcats greasing palms while Trump cuts, SNAP benefits, Medicaid, social support services, and food aid to the world's poorest children.
Enough to make a reich-winged "christian" PROUD.
ret5hd
(22,502 posts)3. all the above and below comments, PLUS...
an internationally mobile listening/tracking/video device!!!
Eugene
(67,101 posts)4. Keeping Mohammed Bone Saw from completely buying off Trump and threatening Qatar again.
It's a protection payment to keep Trump on side.
RainCaster
(13,702 posts)5. An Orange Faced Buffoon
Highly skilled with 34 felony convictions.
enid602
(9,684 posts)6. Palestine
Palestine
hatrack
(64,878 posts)7. Anything they want, up to and including launch codes and war plans.
That's how little the Tangerine Twat thinks of this country.
Anything for a buck, and fuck all y'all - his conjoined twin mottoes.