{"id":41282,"date":"2025-05-12T12:50:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T17:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/theyre-giving-us-a-free-jet-trump-gets-defensive-about-qatari-plane-gift-video\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T12:50:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T17:50:25","slug":"theyre-giving-us-a-free-jet-trump-gets-defensive-about-qatari-plane-gift-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/theyre-giving-us-a-free-jet-trump-gets-defensive-about-qatari-plane-gift-video\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;They&#8217;re giving us a free jet&#8217;: Trump gets defensive about Qatari plane gift \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump defended his decision to accept the gift of a plane from Qatar at a press conference on Monday. &#8216;They&#8217;re giving us a free jet,&#8217; said the US president, &#8216;I could say no, no, no, don&#8217;t give us, I wanna pay you $1bn or $400m or whatever it is, or I could say thank you very much.&#8217; Trump attacked ABC, which broke the story that the Gulf state had offered his administration a gift of a $400m luxury jet described as a &#8216;palace in the sky&#8217; <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/11\/trump-accept-luxury-plane-gift-qatar\">Trump says planned gift of luxury plane from Qatar is a very \u2018transparent\u2019 deal<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/video\/2025\/may\/12\/trump-gets-defensive-about-qatari-plane-gift-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump defended his decision to accept the gift of a plane from Qatar at a press conference on Monday. &#8216;They&#8217;re giving us a free jet,&#8217; said the US president, &#8216;I could say no, no, no, don&#8217;t give us, I wanna pay you $1bn or $400m or whatever it is, or I could say thank &#8230; <a title=\"&#8216;They&#8217;re giving us a free jet&#8217;: Trump gets defensive about Qatari plane gift \u2013 video\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/theyre-giving-us-a-free-jet-trump-gets-defensive-about-qatari-plane-gift-video\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about &#8216;They&#8217;re giving us a free jet&#8217;: Trump gets defensive about Qatari plane gift \u2013 video\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}