Trump's Gift is a White Elephant, Prof. David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize winning Author

Now Amerikka only needs to be renamed "TRUMPISTAN".

Trojan horse ... Rump the fool, in no way does he respect We The People

"When this Qataris jet was delivered to Trump" Hey Mark that jet has not been delivered (5/16/25) to Trump. What are you talking about? I do agree it should not be accepted.

David Cay Johnston is perhaps the most trustworthy researcher of Trump & MAGA, (certainly among them) as he says in the vlog, due to his own ten plus years of erudition.

Oddly, that seems to be about as long of an actual memory-meter as anyone else has evinced ever having of Donald Trump—which is virtually impossible!! (Though notable exceptions, Dr. Angela Davis, Roland Martin, Mary Trump, N. Totenberg, Cornel West, Tavis Smiley, “Texas Paul,” among those, do exist).

As usual, his economic “plan” is enriching and is improving nobody’s “economy” but his own personal accounts, and those of a few of his likewise-corrupted cronies in Q2 of his second term!

I’m GLAD Dr. Johnston has cleared-up WHERE & when the “billionaire” status got conferred AFTER that first term—even an 11-year-old could’ve figured there was NO WAY that this individual “billionaire” would’ve bypassed any chances to brag about his billions AND to flourish the documented records in the public’s face (instead of lying), HAD they even existed in 2015–‘16!!

And again, another “Helsinki Summit”/Appalachian Mobster Conference quid pro quo has landed at the WH, without a SINGLE sheet of paper outlining the “quo” comprising his “deals.” But don’t MAGA and the Fox Chatterbox and the Press Secretary Leavitt weigh-in HEAVILY to fill in the blanks for the sheeple baffled by these slick maneuvers?!!

Had the majority of the electoral college and double digit millions of his “membership flock” NOT become acclimated and accustomed to pimp-bishopric megachurches in the name of Religion—some decades ago now—they’d already know the dangers of worshipping false idols, following corrupted leaders, and unleashing them into Economics, Education, Entertainment, Labor, Law, Politics, Religion, Science, Sex, Technology, Transportation, & War—but “magically,” now they have no problems with it!! UNLESS of course, the miscreants of their warped-perception biases are Sean Combs, Jeffrey Epstein, Michael Cohen, & R. Kelly. (And NOW it’s Smokey Robinson & Chris Brown—also AGAIN!!) THEN, they know PRECISELY how to check, double-check, checkmate wrongdoing, in every instance. An amazing holdover from the “long time ago” bygone eras!

At least this level of ineptitude in EVER holding Donald Trump “accountable” leaves no grey areas in displaying HOW Systemics have no party-affiliations and do more uniting than any other bond between ALL Political groupings. They’re together on that particular -ism of disparate punishments and sentences! On Mass Incarceration, among other carryovers.

So far, the ONLY slightly-impactful dissent has come from the Tesla & the Target boycotts. They must’ve hit a corporate-sponsored nerve, and need to dig-in deeper to really gain substantial purchase—IF that’s even their intent.

I’d MUCH rather see people like David Cay himself being promoted and financialized today myself!! That billionaire-cult set have set-forth NOTHING to justify the showers of funding they’ve received, not even CLOSE.
In fact, except for Bill & Melissa Gates, WHOSE “nonprofits” have engendered any Justice to even approach dismantling Globalized Systemic Injustices? ? ? Not ONE of them comes to mind for doing anything not reminiscent of slave-driving OR of the last French, German, & Dutch monarchies, OR of The British Tea Company. That’s THEIR pre-patterning. Old as dirt and 10X as useless to the ordinary souls of the planet. WHAT they “need” with them is baseless unless it can be shown that doling-out paychecks, and then snatching them away, is “meritorious” and requires special skill that only a DOGE “expert” has obtained, from nothingness, evidently. 🥝🍒🍌⚖️🇺🇸

Best of Luck to the channel. DCJ is GREAT content, no matter what the topical aspect is that he’s covering.

Gift or Trojan horse

I think Trump will use the new jet with no modifications.

This is a Trojan horse, who knows what hidden electronic devices are installed to listen to conversations or whether it has explosives that can be commanded to explode.

Trump thinks the cast off of a middle eastern country is good enough for the USA? I guess he does know his real worth.

The plane is a Trojan horse.

well, now I have a new tackiest thing I've ever seen. Now my heart is beating too fast.

The fact he doesn't know why he shouldn't take the gift show how unqualified to be President.

Can the plane be gifted to the wife or offspring?

Or Trojan horse?

TROJAN HORSE, Think the airplane is more like a Trojan horse. Seems like a gift but it is really designed for our enemies to breach our defenses. Indefensible!

It is not a white elephant. It is a pink elephant. You have to be deep drunk or deep drugged to buy it.

If there is a nuclear war, how will the refueling plane get in the air?

Trump just wants the jet to fly over his birthday parade, after being painted gold.

David Cay Johnston needs to explain that the reason why we have Trump is because of our broken democracy. We are the only democracy in the world that has only two parties that win elections, and the problem isn't the two parties we have. The problem is a system that forces us to have two parties.

Ranked Choice Voting is the key to bringing about a true multi-party political system where you need to form coalitions with other parties to get things done instead of everyone either being in your party or the dreaded, evil, other party. It is part of The American Anti-Corruption Act that is promoted by RepresentUs.

The costs of conversion and maintenance of the 13 year old fuel guzzling jet will be a waste that Elon Musk should look into.

Just another day of Chaos and likely more!!My question and has been for YEARS-ANYTHING GOING TO BE DONE!!!!!!!!BECAUSE your words are of just no value if your ACTIONS dont match and well said by :George Washington

Remember, the cheapest part of owning a plane (or a boat) is buying the plane.

Trump thinks he can do whatever he wants, he has no respect for the constitution or anyone.

My question is who is going to do the upgrades? Boeing already has two AF1 to work on and it would literally be cheaper for them to start from scratch than gut and refit the "gift".

Super badly educated American citizen's. GOD please help us.

Trojan horse as well

Or a Trojan horse

That 747-800 was a Quatari Trojan horse to divide the US citizenry. It worked just as did the Trojan horse.

Great interview. Informative.

Congressional oversight mechanisms don't work, and there are no checks and balances when the separation of powers disappears. Democracy in the United States is deficient when money is the only real power.

The plane was heading to the scrapyard environmental commitments dictate as much recycling as possible costing millions . What goes around comes around 😂

Your current president will NEVER do anything he is supposed to. EVERYBODY right in his/her mind knows that by now. So why do you discuss it here over and over and over again instead of ACTING?!?! Talking is not resistance... I really do not know what you are waiting for. It's heart breaking watching you talking smart instead of ACTING. Are you lazy?

A Trojan Horse

rename his plane to "DISUNITED STATES OF TRUMP"

shouldn't the jet be named disunited states of trump

Since i was a little kid ,my parents instructed me not to recieve any present from strangers! Nothing is free !!! I think any kid knows that !

They mean to tell us that trump has the right to ACCEPT the QATARY PLANE ✈️, Upgrade it which will cost MILLIONS, THEN WHEN he leaves the WHITE HOUSE the PLANE ✈️ Will be his ???? What kind of RULES we HAVE ????
DEMOCRATS WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT ??✈️✈️

WHAT A CORRUPT COUNTRY with CORRUPTION from TOP to BOTTOM.
UNBELIEVABLE??👎

WHAT A CORRUPT COUNTRY with CORRUPTION from TOP to BOTTOM.
UNBELIEVABLE??👎

white folks don't practice corruption. this how hump an old camel in a new way.

Ye as rs ago the Soviet Union gave the an impressive carved coat of arms to the US Embassy in Moscow. It was later found to have sophisticated bugs.

A simple google search reveals that Qatar has been hosting and are supporting the leadership of the Hamas for close to two decades. They have helped pay almost 2 billion dollars in aid and for infrastructure funding to Gaza, which was partly responsible for Hamas being able to take control of Gaza. There is a LOT that is problematic in a relationship with Qatar and the US. Are we pro- Israel? Do we have sympathy for the plight of Palastinians? Both sides of this conflict would have issues with the US cozying up to Qatar. Which could complicate the US' ability to facilitate peace in the Middle East. And the big question is what does Qatar want from Donald Trump? Is anyone asking these questions at the Whitehouse?

Or give it to the UN? Why would they have to refit it?

Professor David Cay is right, the MAGA satrap has no idea what is in the American constitution, but the majority of Americans has no clue either, as a Latin immigrant it is a DISGUSTING

Does it even run or is even airworthy? Laurie. NZ. 😊

Snakes on a plane 🐲🐉

hopefully gravity does it thing

That plane doesn't even start, the electronics eaten by rats🐀🐀 a gas guzzler not high tech plane✈️, its been for sale on the market for many years and nobody wanted to buy it not even for free, but Qtar found a sucker, guess who, Donald Jackoff Trump, the SUCKER that was born in that minute. ✈️
🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣

2 dolls and 5 pencils for you. A $400,000,000.00 Jet and a $100,000,000.00 Military Birthday parade for me. You got a problem with that?