{"id":76312,"date":"2026-07-20T09:55:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/trump-acknowledges-that-jet-from-qatar-lacks-defensive-systems-of-air-force-one\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T09:55:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:55:40","slug":"trump-acknowledges-that-jet-from-qatar-lacks-defensive-systems-of-air-force-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/trump-acknowledges-that-jet-from-qatar-lacks-defensive-systems-of-air-force-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump acknowledges that jet from Qatar lacks defensive systems of Air Force One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president says $400m plane will be \u2018maxed out\u2019 with appropriate protections but doesn\u2019t give further details<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump acknowledged on Sunday that the Boeing jet given to him by Qatar cannot match the defensive armor of a true presidential aircraft, telling reporters it will soon be grounded so engineers can \u201cmax it out\u201d with the protections it was never built with.<\/p>\n<p>The admission came as Trump touched down in Washington on the jet, fresh off a trip to MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, where he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jul\/20\/trump-world-cup-trophy-lift-spain-infantino-fifa\">handed the World Cup trophy<\/a> to Spain alongside Gianni Infantino, the Fifa president, after the tournament\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jul\/19\/spain-win-world-cup-ferran-torres-10-man-argentina-extra-time\">climactic final<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/20\/trump-air-force-one-qatar\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president says $400m plane will be \u2018maxed out\u2019 with appropriate protections but doesn\u2019t give further details Donald Trump acknowledged on Sunday that the Boeing jet given to him by Qatar cannot match the defensive armor of a true presidential aircraft, telling reporters it will soon be grounded so engineers can \u201cmax it out\u201d with &#8230; <a title=\"Trump acknowledges that jet from Qatar lacks defensive systems of Air Force One\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/trump-acknowledges-that-jet-from-qatar-lacks-defensive-systems-of-air-force-one\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump acknowledges that jet from Qatar lacks defensive systems of Air Force One\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76312","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\/76312","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=76312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}