Sean Hannity appeared to spoon-feed President Donald Trump extra excuses for his wanting to simply accept Qatar’s free Air Force One alternative in a dialog that aired Tuesday. (Watch the video under.)
Aboard the present Air Power One, the Fox News host doled out the speaking factors as he and the president mentioned the problematic deal, which might see the $400 million jumbo jet turned over to the longer term Trump library afterward. The association has been questioned even by Republicans. However Trump and the host dug in.
Hannity arrange the section by accusing folks on the left of harping on the problem and understanding nothing about U.S.-Qatar relations. Regardless of Trump’s “slew of current accomplishments, groundbreaking diplomacy, the legacy state-run media mob nonetheless managed to seek out their new obsession,” Hannity stated.
Quick-forward to their dialog. Trump dwelled on a yet-to-be-fulfilled Air Power One take care of Boeing. He complained that the present presidential aircraft is much less spectacular and far smaller than the plane for ruling leaders from Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
“Some folks say, oh, you shouldn’t settle for presents for the nation,” Trump stated. “My angle is, why wouldn’t I settle for a present? We’re giving to everyone else, why wouldn’t I settle for a present? As a result of it’s going to be a few years, I believe, earlier than the Boeings are completed — and they are going to be great after they’re completed — however that’s a very long time.”
“Isn’t it a part of your argument how the US has paid untold billions and trillions of {dollars} securing each side of the world?” Hannity requested.
“I stated, we’ve secured that a part of the world for a few years,” Trump replied. “So if someone makes a present, I’m not getting — I get nothing, I get to fly it like some other president would.”
“So the U.S. has type of given them presents. It’s known as nationwide protection and safety,” Hannity stated, failing to notice within the second that the aircraft would then belong to the Trump library.
“We give loads of presents. We give too many presents to be sincere with you,” Trump answered. “We give presents to defend nations that wouldn’t even exist, many nations wouldn’t even exist. All around the world, nations wouldn’t even exist. However I believed it was a fantastic gesture. Now, there are people who say we shouldn’t be accepting presents within the Protection Division, and I might say solely a silly particular person would say that. Why wouldn’t we do this? And so it helps us out as a result of we can have a comparatively new aircraft as a substitute of getting 40-year-old planes. These planes are 40 years previous, and that’s not consultant of our nation.”
