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Rhiannon12866

(258,892 posts) Tue Jul 29, 2025, 01:37 AM Jul 2025

Trump skims nuclear safety funds to spruce up vanity gift plane from Qatar: Report - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC

Rachel Maddow shares New York Times reporting that Donald Trump has taken nearly a billion dollars from taxpayer money meant for modernizing the U.S. nuclear arsenal, and is instead directing some of those funds to refurbish the Air Force One style plane gifted to him from Qatar, which he intends to keep in his presidential library after potentially using it as his presidential plane once it is brought up to spec. - Aired on 07/28/2025.

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Trump skims nuclear safety funds to spruce up vanity gift plane from Qatar: Report - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Jul 2025 OP

Another illegal (un-constitutional) act... Justice matters. Jul 2025 #1

It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a flying white elephant. Marcuse Jul 2025 #2

Yikes! Great find! And you're right! Why else would Qatar want to get rid of it?! Rhiannon12866 Jul 2025 #3

NUCLEAR SAFETY FUNDS?! How the fuck is this not an immediate cause for removal?! Karasu Jul 2025 #4

I don't get it, either! And how is this not breaking news?? Rhiannon12866 Jul 2025 #5

Justice matters.

(10,084 posts)

1. Another illegal (un-constitutional) act...

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Tue Jul 29, 2025, 01:43 AM

Jul 2025

Congress Shmugress (the repukes) will keep ignoring that too.

Marcuse

(9,082 posts)

2. It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a flying white elephant.

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Tue Jul 29, 2025, 02:11 AM

Jul 2025

Rhiannon12866

(258,892 posts)

3. Yikes! Great find! And you're right! Why else would Qatar want to get rid of it?!

Reply to Marcuse (Reply #2)

Tue Jul 29, 2025, 02:16 AM

Jul 2025

Meanwhile, American lives across several states could be jeopardized by leaking nukes...

Karasu

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4. NUCLEAR SAFETY FUNDS?! How the fuck is this not an immediate cause for removal?!

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Tue Jul 29, 2025, 04:23 AM

Jul 2025

Rhiannon12866

(258,892 posts)

5. I don't get it, either! And how is this not breaking news??

Reply to Karasu (Reply #4)

Tue Jul 29, 2025, 05:18 AM

Jul 2025

One more conclusive sign that he could give a %$&! about the American people as long as he gets what he wants!

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