Trump laughed at Democrats last night at his administration’s plan to embrace Boeing’s super-luxury jet, which is estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
“The fact that the Department of Defense is making 747 aircraft for free gifts to temporarily replace the 40-year-old Air Force 1 with a very public and transparent deal is thus bothering the bent Democrats we insist on paying.”
Democrats criticized reports that Trump plans to accept gifts, claiming that he violated a constitutional provision prohibiting the federal government from accepting gifts from foreign governments without Congressional consent.
Rep. Ritchie Torres, Dn.Y., called for an investigation into the gifts on Sunday, described them as “flying glyfts,” the “most valuable gift awarded to the president by a foreign government.”
“As opposed to enforce ethics, the Attorney General has pasted a stamp of Justice’s approval for transactions that are grossly violated, both in the constitutional letter and in spirit,” Torres wrote to the government’s director of accountability, representative inspectors of the Department of Defense, and representative director of the Department of Government Ethics.
White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt said on Sunday that “gifts given by foreign governments are always accepted to be in full compliance with all applicable laws.”