Trump Debuts Qatari Jet

President Donald Trump took his first flight aboard a newly retrofitted Boeing 747-8 serving as Air Force One, traveling from Joint Base Andrews to North Dakota for the dedication of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. The $400 million aircraft, gifted by Qatar and modified for presidential use, replaces the older VC-25 aircraft that has carried presidents for more than three decades. Trump praised the plane before boarding, calling it possibly “the greatest commercial plane ever built” and saying, “Nobody’s ever seen anything like it.” The debut marks the realization of a design vision Trump had promoted since his first term, while also drawing scrutiny because of the foreign gift and taxpayer-funded security upgrades.