Trump gifts: Flying Palace, Samurai helmet and pager – necessarily in gold

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Boeing 747-8, which US President Donald Trump will receive as a gift from Qatar, costs 100 times more ($ 400 million) than all other presidential gifts in the United States from foreign countries have been combined since 2001. And it makes the Americans think: is not some tricky from their flamboyant donna stand for these presentations? Briefly about – That standing and not, such gifts cannot be just that.

“Why don’t I accept a gift?” Donald Trump’s commitment to “expensive and many” style is already known and is often confirmed. Against the backdrop of conversations about a full reduction in budget expenditures and the dismissal of thousands of people “to optimize expenditures,” the acceptance of a luxurious liner looks a little senseless from Qatar. At least because US laws are banned from officials, including the President, to receive gifts worth more than $ 480 without the approval of Congress.

The plane is extraordinary and luxurious, with an interior that corresponds to the status of “presidential”.

“Why not accept a gift? We give it to others, ”Trump justified. He expressed his intention to use the aircraft as Air Force One and then transfer it to the presidential library. Who, where and why will use expensive library board – Trump did not say for some reason.

Instead, society said a lot about it. And the fact that the White House with this precedent has introduced a “payment for access” to US foreign policy. And that the Middle East is so much in the sphere of interests of the American leader that a gift in the form of a plane looks like a signal: the US will be sold because it will pay more.

– This is not America first. This is Trump, ”said Chris Murphy, Senator-Democrat of Connecticut. -He is ready to take unconstitutional bribes, just to be able to fly with his golf friends from Mar-A-Savid all over the world on luxurious gilded planes donated to him by foreign governments.

As a result, as we remember, after the gift act, in mid -May, the United States concluded an armed agreement with Saudi Arabia for $ 142 billion.

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Where did the Klovuk and Swords go? During his first presidential term (from 2017 to 2021), Trump received as a gift golf from the Japanese government worth more than $ 48,000. Practical Japanese know about Trump’s capture by golf – here they were presented with a sportswear.

Where did the Golden Kicks go? It is unknown, but they did not get into the National Archives or Presidential Library. In 2023, the Democrats in the Senate accused Trump of not disclosing information about more than $ 290,000, including these keyhouses. The accusation, of course, is harsh, however, it has rushed in the air without continuation.

By the way, in 2025, Japan Prime Minister Siger Isiba presented a Golden Samurai helmet during a visit to Washington. It is inexpensive – about $ 1,100, but the very fact of such a gift is interesting.

The same story took place in the same presidential cadence with gifts from … of course, Saudi Arabia. During the visit there in May 2017, the President of the United States presented several swords, symbolizing respect and strength in the East. The swords were estimated at $ 48,000, but in addition, the list of presentations consisting of 83 points also included a silver dagger with a handle of pearls, a box with gilded coins, a mantle of tiger and cheetah skins, a painting with a portrait of the President, the Golden Medal, the Parcemal, the Hutra, the Hutra, the Parcels, and the Parcemal.

Sandals may have been transferred to the National Archives in accordance with the US law. And the mantle is worth looking for in a library that will soon have a superpowers. How about such a magnificent board – and not in the tiger mantle?

Samurai’s gold helmet is a presentation from the Japanese premiere. Photo: kyodonews.net

Gold Page from Netanyag In February this year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented to Donald Trump a golden pager installed on a wooden stand. A regular pager was added to it. Together, this symbolized the operation of the Israeli intelligence “Mossad” against the terrorist organization “Hezbolla” in September 2024, when explosive pagers and radios used by militants were activated, which led to the death of several dozen fighters and injuries.

Trump praised the gift high, saying: “that was a green operating”. And in response, he gave Netanyah a signed photo with the inscription: to bibi, A Great Leader! (“Bibi, the greatest leader!”).

The gift caused a flurry of criticism of the public and was exactly sent to the National Archive. It is unlikely that the US President will use outdated technology, even with such background.

The pig is a mention of surgery against Hezbolla on September 17-18, 2024. Photo: Timesofisrael.com

From the history of the question

Barack’s horses and michel diamonds The Flying Palace worth $ 400 million is perhaps too much, but other American leaders were often gifted more than generously.

For example, in 2014, the first lady of the United States Michel Obama received a jewelry headset from King Abdalli Bin Abdalaziz from Saudi Arabia. The king of the gift Mrs. Obami Obama Diamond and Emerald Hemacles (earrings, necklaces, ring and bracelet), estimated at $ 560,000. Obama’s daughters also presented jewelry worth $ 80,000, and the whole family was a golden model of $ 57,000.

The Obama family went strictly by the protocol: they transferred this beauty to the National Archives in accordance with the Law on Gifts and Awards from Foreign States, for which a gift should be approved by Congress or “Welcome for preserving in the archive”.

Two years later, Barack Obami and Saudi Arabia raised a bronze sculpture of horses, estimated at about $ 500,000. To the Qatar aircraft, this sculpture was considered the most expensive gift that the US president was receiving in the 21st century.

The horses went to the National Archives following the headset, and the Saudi Arabia label donors of US donors, which do not hide interest in cooperation with the states. Whatever it cost it.

By the way, Michel Obama then received great little things from the Saudites – two jewelry headsets. Who found their place in the Tsarchiv, near bronze horses and other headsets. Publicly, Mrs. Obama has never wore these jewelry. And no one ever saw horses outside the walls of the archive.

Since it is very difficult to stop the East in his desire, it is worth mentioning how in 1997 President of Azerbaijan Gaydar Aliyev gave US President Bill Clinton and his wife a carpet with their portraits framed in the form of a heart, estimated at $ 110,000.

And before that, about 1989, US President Ronald Reagan received a house in the prestigious Bel-Air area in Los Angeles worth about $ 2.5 million (estimated at that time). Who presented – it is still unknown, maybe representatives of a state, and it may have been a local private initiative. No one has ever handed more real estate to the Presidents. Reagan lived in this house or not is also unknown.

Source: kp.ua