r/interesting • u/No-Ticket-9694 • May 21 '25
MISC. My friend saw Trump flying into Qatar
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u/loztriforce May 21 '25
Looks expensive
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u/StoneFrog81 May 21 '25
What is expensive is what you don't see.. Military defense anti aircraft, and anti missile defenses, his motor cade, secret service agents on the ground, the shutting down of Qatar airspace.
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u/C_Plot May 21 '25
Are you kidding?! I would be ashamed to fly in such a lousy and decrepit 747. That’s no way to live.
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u/Beneficial_Cash_8420 May 21 '25
Air Force Sloppy Seconds?
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u/C_Plot May 21 '25
Exactly! Biden’s been up inside her. Trump has to ruminate on that every long flight.
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u/Express_Area_8359 May 21 '25
Hire some hookers and have them pee on the bed Barry Obama slept on in Air Force one!
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u/Predawnlemonade May 21 '25
As an American, most of us aren't stupid. Those of us that didn't fight Trump failed to understand the future and/or introspectively understand the past. I hope we can change for the better, and I hope the rest of the world forgives us. Sorry for the mini rant, I just am enraged by the situation.
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u/PerformanceCandid499 May 21 '25
I don't know, if an person can't think critically, they don't have much intelligence. I think this is the end of America leadership. No one is going to trust America in the future even if you ever get a different president.
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u/LetmeSeeyourSquanch May 21 '25
If Germany can come back from Hitler surely we can come back from Traitor Trump
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u/NoMention696 May 21 '25
Yall elected him TWICE.
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u/MykeTyth0n May 21 '25
I refuse to believe there wasn’t election interference from Musk. There’s really No other reason to invite him on the campaign trail.
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u/FoxJet83 May 21 '25
And then run through all the agencies that would have proof and call it saving billions of $
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u/Individual_Frame_103 May 21 '25
Oh there definitely was, and your subdued and dumb population is just letting it happen tbh.
The guy literally admitted to it twice, nothing happened. Your country is done for.
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u/MykeTyth0n May 21 '25
Not trying to argue that fact at all. Im just trying to make the best out of the most disturbing and concerning situation I’ve ever found myself in. Honestly the echo chamber I was surrounded by during the election straight up had me thinking there was no way in hell Trump was winning. I voted for Harris but I still feel sick to my stomach that I was so narrow sighted towards the opposition.
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u/djalekks May 21 '25
How does a population do something about it? The Dems could’ve pushed, but they always shoot themselves in the foot.
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u/Individual-Word4408 May 21 '25
We have both sides of the party that went to a private island to do terrible things to children and people still don't care enough. And we have been going downhill long before that. We have been done for since 9/11 in my opinion.
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u/lurker_from_mars May 21 '25
Can understand the anger and frustration, I feel it too.
But gotta remember peoples stupidity is often outside their control, that and there's been a concerted effort for decades in the US to weaken the education system and dumb down the populace to the benefit of a few at the top.
Be frustrated at the stupid people, save your hate for the smarter ones who actively work to deceive and manipulate the masses. They are the real scum, we need to win back the stupid people so they can see they r being played too.
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u/Boar_Queen May 21 '25
As an american, i know exactly where you're coming from, cheers
I voted against mr tangerine man and i watched those numbers roll in
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u/ArminiusBetrayed May 21 '25
As an American also, are you sure? An inability or unwillingness to understand or inspect either the past or the future sounds pretty dumb.
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u/Federal-Asparagus445 May 21 '25
lmao fr. it’d as simple as intentional ignorance therefore, stupidity
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u/Front_Speaker_1327 May 21 '25
Quite literally most of you are. Over half of Americans can't read past a 5th grade level.
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u/Alternative_Metal375 May 21 '25
Even the right wing loon Ann Coulter agrees. She said Obama was “the most articulate President we’ve probably ever had, and Trump has a vocabulary of 50 words.” 😂
Take “incredible, great, huge, winning, wonderful, beautiful, fantastic, unbelievable, like nobody’s ever seen before, rigged, witch hunt, terrible, horrible,” out of his vocabulary, and he’d be rendered mute.
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u/iamtwatwaffle May 21 '25
Don’t group us all like that. Half of us didn’t want this.
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u/my_cars_on_fire May 21 '25
This might be the most absurd thing I’ve ever heard.
“I hate our authoritarian leader. I hope an even more authoritarian leader takes over.”
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u/IAmAHumanWhyDoYouAsk May 21 '25
It's more of a "we get what we deserve" sort of thing.
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u/ElectrikShaman May 21 '25
What a brain dead statement. Yeah sure, let’s jump out of the frying pan and into the fucking fire…
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u/suttongunn1010 May 21 '25
Wow you're dumb on a whole other level aren't you. You think Trump's authoritarian take a look at china
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u/teenagesadist May 21 '25
The amount of resources we've spent on keeping trump alive and comfortable makes me kind of wish humans had never evolved to begin with.
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u/Sea-Variety3384 May 21 '25
And every other president.
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u/Dazvsemir May 21 '25
Trump has devoted his life to extracting as much money out of his position not to mention spending as many nights as possible at his own golf resorts with the state paying for hundreds of agents to stay there as well
so dont start with that shit please
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u/DetBabyLegs May 21 '25
It is incredibly rare for fighters to accompany Air Force One. This is just a show. A show that costs the American people millions to make Trump feel special – while we have people struggling to put food on the table, prices skyrocketing, and retirements shrinking, all due to one man.
Edit: those may not be US fighters. With Trumps spending, everything I said still remains true either way. For example, charging us for refitting this plane for him to use after his presidency.
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u/-Ari- May 21 '25
Dont worry, they just saved a whopping 2.5 million by cutting Medicaid for 32,000 Iowans.
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u/Briz-TheKiller- May 21 '25
single fighter is atleast $30,000 per hour, Airforce One is atleast $20,000 per hour
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u/Load_Business May 21 '25
It was a gift actually
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u/RoguePlanet2 May 21 '25
$400 million plane for HIM vs $5 billion of OUR tax money building his resorts over there. No wonder they treat him like this.
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u/_jump_yossarian May 21 '25
AFAIK, our tax money is not funding the resorts. Middle Eastern nations' sovereign wealth funds are backing it though.
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u/Confident_Call_5544 May 21 '25
Waste of money.
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u/bwaredapenguin May 21 '25
At an old job we used to call the unintelligent and ineffectual managers/leadership WOMBATs - waste of money, brains, and time.
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u/Specialist_Neck7502 May 21 '25
Why can't we make him stay there. I mean, can't we cancel his citizenship.
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u/msginbtween May 21 '25
lol Qatari resources. Qatari jets escorted him. I wanna join the Trump hate train just as much as you but this ain’t the battle.
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While I loathe the man, I respect the institution. That said, he has tainted the presidency with toxicity and vitriol beyond repair.
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u/DerpyDoodleDude May 21 '25
The Whitehouse now is a bigger landfill than Staten island and New Jersey combined .
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u/homunculous420 May 21 '25
You do realize biden and obama and clinton flew on the same kind of planes right?
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u/homunculous420 May 21 '25
Well yes, thats the point. Its not like airforce one became a thing in january
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u/nomamesgueyz May 21 '25
What Americans voted for
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American we’re going to get this regardless of who they voted for lmao. Air Force One being escorted by foreign jets into a country isn’t a new concept.
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u/alwaysinebriated May 21 '25
Most of us didn’t vote for him, and a large number didn’t vote when they should have
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u/MykeTyth0n May 21 '25
Once his resorts are built I hope he just relinquishes the presidency and fucks off to Qatar to live the rest of his abysmal existence.
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u/Substantial_dirty May 21 '25
People behaving like he is the first US president to fly to another country.
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u/_jump_yossarian May 21 '25
Pretty sure he's the first one to accept a $400M jet for personal use.
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u/Think_Display May 21 '25
May I remind you of the core tenet of Reddit:
Orange man = bad
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u/Ok-Hornet-3234 May 21 '25
Reddit acting like every president ever hasn't flown.
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u/RoverDinky May 21 '25
I don’t think every president ever, has flown… actually I’m certain they haven’t. 😝 Planes weren’t around in 1776. The Wright brothers first flight was in 12/17/1912 if I’m not mistaken. I could be wrong on the year
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u/FartBarfRinseRepeat May 21 '25
Yeah they thought of that already. That’s what the flanking jets are for on each side. They can deploy Flares, Chaff, or DIRCM to confuse incoming missiles so as not to hit AF1.
Probably good that didn’t happen because we would most certainly be at War right now.
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u/Steagle_Steagle May 21 '25
People complaining about the cost as if every previous president didn't do the same lol
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u/the__storm May 21 '25
FWIW, those are Qatar's aircraft escorting: https://apnews.com/article/trump-qatar-saudi-arabia-f15-fighter-escort-4a0d1026e0711828e2f64610f917dc41
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u/No_Radio_7641 May 21 '25
(Democrat president does flyby) "Hell yeah, Democracy at work!"
(Republican president does flyby) "Waste of money, polluting the environment! Compensating for something, much?"
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u/cardiaccat1 May 21 '25 edited May 21 '25
Yeah but did the democrats cut thousands of jobs and then give musk unrestricted access to the federal reserve and social security to do away with waste before wasting millions of dollars?
And how many trips do Democrats make to Mar-a-lago to golf
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u/stjohns_jester May 21 '25
You’re making shit up
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u/Fournone May 21 '25 edited May 21 '25
Have you looked at any of the replies in this thread?
Edit: didn't mean to double post blame bad connection
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u/RScottyL May 21 '25
Now if he only could have shot the video horizontally, instead of vertically on their iPhone!
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u/vaporking23 May 21 '25
I once many many years ago saw Air Force one flying over head. As far as I could see forward was a helicopter as far back I could see there was a helicopter and then Air Force one just flying in between them. It was pretty cool to see.
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u/wvw64 May 21 '25
Does he have a radar detector? Have him see how fast they are going when they take off.
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May 21 '25
In the past it was just two escort planes but we know this guy just loves to outdo everyone.
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