#QATAR

ˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊dalfen@mstdn.social
2025-05-23

“I'm sorry I don't have a plane to give you,” said the South African president.

Trump replied, “I wish you did" have a plane to offer up... "I'd take it. If your country offered the U.S. Air Force a plane, I would take it."

*sigh*

(Note: the plane that #Trump accepted from #Qatar will go to Trump’s presidential library at the end of his term (so, to him), not to the Air Force.)

#USA #USPol #USGov

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Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa's president, brought to his meeting with President Trump a 30-pound book with pictures of South African golf courses. Eric Lee/The New York Times By Shawn McCreesh Shawn McCreesh covers the White House. May 22, 2025, 5:07 p.m. ET It has been said that the best jokes are dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-plane-south-africa-gifts.html

Accessed: 22 May 2025 at 2012 CSTAnd thousands of people have bought up Mr. Trump's cryptocurrency token. If someone looking for access to the president had purchased enough to become one of the top 25 holders of Mr. Trump's memecoin, he or she could have even been invited to Thursday night's V.I.P. reception for top Trump memecoin holders. It's being held at another one of the president's private clubs. (Another option would be to invest in some of the first lady's cryptocurrency token.) There are other ways to ensure V.I.P. treatment in our nation's capital these days. One could donate to America250, the committee that's helping plan the celebrations around the country's 250th anniversary. Mr. Trump has a military parade in Washington planned. (It happens to fall on the same day as his birthday, June 14.) And the newly Trumpified Kennedy Center is always prospecting for new donors.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-plane-south-africa-gifts.html

Accessed: 22 May 2025 at 2012 CSTVisiting dignitaries no longer have the option of playing or staying at one of the president's hotels when in Washington, since Mr. Trump offloaded the one he was operating out of the Old Post Office building on Pennsylvania Avenue. But there is the new social club in Georgetown that his son, Donald Trump Jr., is opening. It costs half a million to join up. Many nations seem eager to do business with the president's sons. The Qataris, the Saudis and the Serbs have all gone into big business with them, to name just a few. Mr. Ramaphosa's joke about the airplane broke the tension in the room after Mr. Trump a moment earlier erupted at an NBC reporter for daring to ask about the Qatari jet. The president's defense was to say that the plane was not a gift for him but for the United States.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-plane-south-africa-gifts.html

Accessed: 22 May 2025 at 2012 CSTBut many of the gifts he is presented with these days have nothing to do with the country. The White House's defense of the president's memecoin sweepstakes private access dinner at his club on Thursday is to say that he is doing it on his "personal time." Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary, was pressed about this on Thursday. "It's absurd for anyone to insinuate that this president is profiting off of the presidency," she said. Shawn McCreesh is a White House reporter for The Times covering the Trump administration.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-plane-south-africa-gifts.html

Accessed: 22 May 2025 at 2012 CST

Kevin Breuninger and Leslie Josephs reveal a significant $62 million settlement between the Department of Justice and L3Harris Technologies, addressing allegations of price inflation on military equipment from 2006 to 2014. This comes alongside the Pentagon's acceptance of a Boeing 747 jet for President Trump, previously contracted to L3Harris for modifications. L3Harris aims for transparency in government procurement despite not admitting liability. Read more here: cnbc.com/2025/05/22/trump-gift
#L3Harris #DepartmentOfJustice #AirForceOne #Boeing #Trump #Qatar #governmentcontracts

2025-05-22

Wenn dein Geschäftsmodell erfordert, dass du mit Despoten Geschäfte machst, dann hast du kein Geschäftsmodell, das es sich zu retten lohnt.
#qatar #artbasel social.pmj.rocks/@srfnewsrss/1

Nathaniel GregoryFaithslayer202
2025-05-22

I don’t care to hear about how you think violent resistance to violence makes violence worse

The only critique should be how individualist acts should sometimes be more organized acts of violence with demands

This non violent stuff will get you killed etc

Courrier international - Non officielcourrierinternational@friendica.quebec
2025-05-22
Le président américain a donné le tournis en jonglant avec les milliards tout au long de son périple effectué du 13 au 16 mai en Arabie saoudite, au Qatar et aux Émirats arabes unis. Mais il s’agit largement d’effets d’annonce et de chiffres dont il faut se méfier. Certains titres de la presse internationale ont tenté de démêler le vrai du faux et la réalité des fanfaronnades.#moyen-orient #qatar #arabiesaoudite #émiratsarabesunis #états-unis #économie #géopolitique #donaldtrump #amériques
Trump dans le Golfe : des milliards dont on a du mal à voir la couleur

During a bilateral meeting and lunch at the Oval Office yesterday, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa mockingly referenced the Qataris gifting Donald Trump a luxury 747 jetliner, remarking that he hasn’t got one for him.

In response, Trump replied, “I wish you did. I’d take it.”

#SouthAfrica #USA #USpol #Qatar

Backpack and Snorkelbasnorkel@pixelfed.social
2025-05-22
No visit to #Qatar is complete without #dune bashing, #camel #riding , dune #surfing and, as Qatar has such a long #coastline, a visit to the #beach. https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Qatar/Day6/
2025-05-22

No visit to #Qatar is complete without #dune bashing, #camel #riding , dune #surfing and, as Qatar has such a long #coastline, a visit to the #beach. backpackandsnorkel.com/Qatar/D

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io
2025-05-22

After Building #US Factories, #TSMC Rejects #Qatar, #Singapore & #India's Requests To Build Advanced Plants
TSMC's overseas expansion has been at the center of coverage surrounding the firm these past few years, as it has built new plants in Japan and the US. Among these, the US site is currently producing advanced 4-nanometer products. However, according to DigiTimes, TSMC has refused to build new factories in three countries despite receiving lucrative offers.
wccftech.com/after-building-us

2025-05-22

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2025-05-22

In this case, a whole #Boeing 747 from #Qatar as well as the largest reduction in social benefits in the recent history of this country. The #Congress in #Washington is currently discussing this controversially. But before the ultra-right and often ultra-poor milieu in the #USA realizes what their president [#Trump] is doing with their #health #insurance, he prefers to tell them the fairy tale of #genocide on the other side of the world [#southAfrica]. #uspol tagesschau.de/kommentar/trump-

Well, it’s official. The most corrupt administration to ever hold office just accepted a $400 million dollar gift from #Qatar… he sold you out.

This won’t make it into the Presidential fleet; it’s a quid pro quo and #Trump’s personal trophy.

Had this been any #Democrat, you idiots would have lost your goddamn minds. We both know it. But you’re going to bend over backwards coming into my comments to defend it because you’re fucking #sycophants.

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