Trump exhibits off design for ‘America First 250’ aircraft in flurry of morning social media posts | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump confirmed off a mannequin “America First 250” aircraft in a flurry of social media posts he fired off the day after Christmas.

At one level, Trump was posting on Truth Social on common each two minutes early Friday morning.

One of the posts was an image of the president beaming within the Oval Office with the mannequin plane on the Resolute Desk.

The new photograph was posted with out remark, because the president fired off different messages starting from ending the Senate “zombie apocalypse” filibuster, touting federal unemployment ranges, and a information article concerning the Jeffrey Epstein information “blowing back” on Democrats.

It adopted a weird Christmas Day Truth Social submit from the president about Epstein, saying that he dropped ties with the late intercourse offender “long before it became fashionable,” and that the controversy surrounding the discharge of the information is a “Radical Left Witch Hunt.”

The jet — which bares the slogan “America First” on the fuselage with “250” in direction of the empennage — gave the impression to be a reference to the nation’s semiquincentennial anniversary, which takes place subsequent yr.

Trump has already introduced plans for the anniversary, together with a UFC occasion on the White House South garden, as properly a contest for younger athletes known as the ‘Patriot Games,’ which has drawn unfavourable comparisons to The Hunger Games franchise.

The image of Trump with the mannequin aircraft was additionally posted by the official White House account. The lack of context led to a handful of followers replied by asking whether or not the miniature plane was the $400 million jet the president accepted from Qatar.

In the spring, Trump accepted the posh Boeing 747 jet from Qatar as a stand-in for Air Force One after complaining concerning the size of time it was taking the U.S. plane large to construct replacements.

“Is that the Qatar plane?” one particular person replied to the White House account.

“Is that the new Air Force one?” requested one other.

Trump’s acceptance of the aircraft prompted an ethics uproar on the time, regardless of his assurances it will go to his presidential library as soon as he leaves workplace.

Amid a furore in Congress over the jet doubtlessly violating the U.S. Constitution’s emoluments clause, Justice Department attorneys moved rapidly to rule that taking supply of it will break no legal guidelines.

Attorney General Pam Bondi and White House lawyer David Warrington stated that they had concluded the donation of the plane was “legally permissible.”

It was reported in late July that the U.S. had already begun refitting the aircraft at nice expense, with Trump himself saying it could possibly be prepared for service by February 2026.

Joe Sommerlad contributed reporting.