Trump says Qatar offered to gift 747 jet to US after he asked to ‘borrow’ it for Air Force One

US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he initially asked Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani to lend the US a Boeing 747 jet for temporary use as Air Force One, but the Qatari leader offered to give the aircraft to Washington instead, Anadolu reports. “When you’re given gifts, you take ’em, right?” Trump told the crowd at a rally in Arizona. “When they give you a 747, you say two words: ‘thank you.’” Trump said he approached Sheikh Tamim because the US presidential aircraft currently in service are ageing. “We’d love to borrow it because our planes are 35 years old. “So I called up the head of Qatar, highly respected guy, great guy, young, handsome guy actually […]