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US Air Force to spend $1.5 billion retro-fitting gifted Qatari plane for Trump use. (www.abc.net.au)
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[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 77 points 2 weeks ago

And since the plane gets transferred to Trump's actual ownership after his term, Trump gets a free $2billion plane..

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 weeks ago

The military is already ordered to strip it again when they are don't with it, meaning he gets all the work done for free.

[-] paperazzi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

That's ok because he won't ever leave office again so technically the people will still own it

/s

[-] leftytighty@slrpnk.net -4 points 2 weeks ago

lol that's not how value works. If you add $1 million worth of mods to your civic and then remove them for a similar cost, you still have an old civic

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