On the advantages of looking gift horses in the mouth

[jmowreader]

Someone much wiser than me told me, "always look a gift horse in the mouth. There's a reason he's free."

The particular gift horse I am addressing today is the nearly-new Boeing 747-8 the Qatari government donated to the festering boil who is our leader. I have a bit of experience in secret squirrel shit, and I wonder...how much tracking technology and how many bugs that don't come on until the plane is at cruising altitude did Qatar State Security add to this aircraft before they gave it to Trump?

What might be advisable before they let Trump go on too many trips in this thing is to run it up to about 30,000 feet then have the National Security Agency fly over it with an electronic collection aircraft to see what's coming out of it.

[snot]

1. It also sickens me

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that Trump will get to keep the thing after his presidency ends.

SO many violations of the Emoluments Clause; SO corrupt of Congress never to have attempted to impeached him on that basis.

Photos & video (twice as big as the old one, gold-plated fixtures, 40 tv screens, etc.): https://www.executivetraveller.com/news/inside-trump-747-air-force-one

[Morbius]

2. On the plus side...

actuarial tables suggest he won't live long enough to take possession of the plane.