President said US ‘should have the most impressive plane’, though experts say it would cost over $1bn to convert it
Donald Trump has doubled down on his plans to accept a luxury Boeing 747 from Qatar, a country he traveled to on Wednesday to negotiate business deals, with the US president portraying the $400m aircraft as an opportunity too valuable to refuse.
“The plane that you’re on is almost 40 years old,” Trump told the Fox News host Sean Hannity during an Air Force One interview on the Middle East trip, where he is also visiting Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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