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Episode Date: July 28, 2025

The US preps Trump’s totally “free” $1B Qatari jet for Air Force One. Jon Favreau and Jon Lovett unpack Trump's latest scandal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Love it. There was some breaking news over the weekend that revealed who's really paying for Trump's Katari luxury jet. All right. And you know what? It's us. It's us. It's us. Let's take a look. Preparations are underway to refit that Katari jet that could become the new Air Force one. We are also told some senior U.S. officials have already seen the floor plans. You might remember earlier this year, President Trump announced a Qatari royal family donated the Boeing plane for his use. She's a pricey one, valued a $400 million.

And we've learned that getting that Jet Air Force one ready will mean the U.S. having to spend hundreds of millions of dollars just to renovate it. Hundreds of millions. Actually, the New York Times reports nearly $1 billion. $1 billion, which they were trying to keep secret. They had hidden it deep within the budget of our modernization of our nuclear weapons. Yeah, the missiles, old aging missiles. I suppose they can just. justify this because the Air Force One is meant to be a command and control place for eventual

and inevitable nuclear strike by the United States so they could hide a billion dollars in that budget, but then we now know it was there. So now this is not like a billion dollars instead of the money that we were going to spend on the two Air Force One planes that were already being built. Oh, no. We're still getting the bill for those. Those still have to be built. So this is just an extra billion dollars to refurbish this Qatari plane to, A, rip it down to the studs to find all the little bugs and listening devices that have been embedded inside of this thing.

That our friends, the Qataris, definitely did not put in there. How could you think we would do that? There are good friends. They give us free jets. How could you? That we have to pay a billion dollars for. What a gift. It's like one of those gifts you're like, oh, it's a free gift, but like, oh, you have to pay for it.

Right, right. It's like I had to pay taxes if you win on the prices right. Yeah, that's what it's like, except we're paying it. But so, John, what was your reaction? My reaction is fucking insane, particularly because, so if they get this finished on a really tight timeline, which a lot of officials don't think they'll be able to, Trump can fly around on it for about a year before he leaves office. And then, of course, as we remember, he gets to take it with him as a keepsake.

Donated to the library. It's going to the library. Yeah, to the library. But he's not going to park it in the library. He can take it anywhere he wants at that point. Right. It's his. He's not, they're not, they, he wants it to be,

he wants the idea to be that it's going to sit in the library like Reagan's plane. But no, he's going to use this fucking thing. And, well, and no one has said that it would sit in the library like Reagan's thing. Right, it's a donation. Well, like, that's, that's sort of what they've been comparing it to. That's what they want the impression to be. Exactly. But they're not.

He wants to fly around in this fucking thing. Yeah. And a billion dollars. And also, you got to. pay for, you know, all the upgrades to make it Air Force One. You also got to pay for the gold trim. He wants gold trim gold everywhere. And like he needs,

you know he's got, he's got to have one of those toilets that puts water up your asshole. Lots of water. He's got, in every single he's got to have good flow up there. That's why he's always so upset about the water flow. So, uh,

I, I don't know what we're, we can do about this right now, not much. But I do think, like, at the point where it's like we need to be saying that if democrats uh retake congress we're going to shut this down or at least we're going to force him to veto a bill uh that would take this billion dollars uh and uh put it back into um better purposes whether or not that's refurbishing minute men missiles i don't know yeah we got to fix that we got to upgrade the old missiles

otherwise you know we're going to need him someday and it's just going to be like a little little flag that comes out, just pop. Yeah, I will say, I will say the truth is for the silos, you really just people need to think there's a missile in there. Well, now, when they see the jet, they're going to know. And, you know, just, because it wasn't so long

ago, even though none of us remember anything. This is when Trump was first asked about this jet when he was in the Oval Office with yet another poor world leader who's had to sit there and deal with our drama as they come for a visit to the United States.

happened multiple times. Like when a celebrity happens to be invited to some sort of real housewives event and then suddenly is there for a big fight. I was like, I didn't want to be a part of this. Yeah, let's take a look. Mr. President, the Pentagon announced it would be accepting a Qatari jet to be used as Air Force one. What are you talking about? You know, you're going to get out of here. What does this have to do with the Qatar jet? They're giving the United States Air Force a jet, okay? And it's great thing. You are a real, you know, you're a terrible reporter. Number one, you don't have what it takes to be a reporter. You're not smart enough. NBC, which is fake news, totally, one of the

worst, ABC, NBC, CBS, horrible. But if they weren't fake news like this jerk, so why did they give us a plane to the United States Air Force? That's what that idiot talks about after viewing a thing where thousands of people are dead. I'm sorry, I don't have a plane to give you. I wish you did. If your country offered the United States Air Force a plan, I would take it. How could we forget the white genocide episode of this year of the Trump term when the South African president came and Trump had to defend the fact that our refugee programs have all been shut down except for white South Africans? It's too long of a season, too many episodes. So part of me thinks to you were like talking about this in the wrong way. Like the U.S. didn't really accept a gift and the Pentagon isn't refurbishing Air Force One.

What's happening is that Donald Trump was given a gift of an airplane and he's stealing a billion dollars from the government to do a reno. But that's what this is. This is a Donald Trump is stealing a billion dollars from the Pentagon to upgrade his private jet. Right? Yeah. Yeah. It's our, it's our jet. It's the government. his jet for a year. It's a lease. We leased it for a year. Then it's all his. It's a lease to buy. It's a least to buy. He's getting it when he's getting. It's a donation to him when it's over. I just, you know, Donald Trump so far is having a real banner year in terms of how much money

he's making. He gets a free jet, the gold-plated jet, gold-trimed jet that he's taken with him after the presidency. He and his family have made just billions and billions of dollars. In crypto, you get to basically, you get to buy a dinner conversation with the president for a couple million dollars now. The library. You can get a pardon if you donate to the president. Or if you, you know, potentially, if you're willing to say that he had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. Which is priceless. And, you know, he'll protect his buddies.

He'll protect himself, elites. Jeffrey Epstein, others, you know, he's getting planes. He's getting rich off crypto. Meanwhile, his economic plan just passed, and, you know, millions and millions of people are going to lose their health insurance. We're going to get, like, double-digit premium hikes for people who buy their health care from the Affordable Care Act exchanges. That's going to hit, and they're going to have those notices go out in a couple weeks, you know, gutting Medicaid. But you know what? Plenty of money for Trump's plane that he gets to keep.

And I don't think any of this will be covered in the library Paramount is funding. Paramount and who else now? And ABC. Don't forget ABC. Don't forget ABC. Anne Seltzer got out of it. Yeah. She's the only one that's escaped. What's funny about the Ann Seltzer situation is when she

released that poll, she said, look, I know it's an outlier, and either I'll be proven right or I'll become dust over Des Moines, some version of that. And it was worse than that. It was worse than that. It invited a terrible lawsuit. Yeah. And now he's got Paramount.

He's got ABC, Columbia, maybe Harvard. All kinds of money for Donald Trump. He's making out pretty great. Hope everyone else makes out great. Hope everyone is enjoying those lower prices. Lower prices, lower costs for everyone. It's a golden age. Golden playing golden age.

I was in Montreal, as I say up there. And no, we've done tour shows all over the country. And when we go, we have a pretty short run. We're not persnickety boys. But there's a bottle of vodka and there's a bottle of bourbon. That's what we like. And carrots. And there is also.

There is carrots. Some people call it crudete. But not us salt of the earth. No. Real Americans. And there's hummus. So it's a pretty, and plus the oxy. But so.

That's for Dan. So, yeah, Dan's oxy. He doesn't go anywhere. Let's get out of bed. He can't at this point, but with his back problems. So, but I get there and somebody pulls me aside and says, hey, just so you know, we know that the writer says bourbon, but there's no bourbon in Canada. Why? Because it's from Kentucky.

Oh. Oh, yeah. How could you forget the tariffs? And so we can't forget the tariffs. And so they got whiskey. So, you know, we made it through. But I was just thinking like, God, who cares about it? But like, oh, like, there's just a place that used to sell a ton of bourbon in Canada.

And now they don't. Yeah. That's another bonus for America. we get to pay more for shit that comes from overseas and sell less of our stuff to the countries. But when it comes to a plane from overseas, Donald Trump gets it for free. We pay a billion dollars. What a deal. What a deal. Anyway, that's all we have. Subscribe to our YouTube channel. You guys have been doing a great job subscribing. And again, I mean, I don't want to give you too much praise because all you have to do is just click the fucking button. Just tap it. It takes five seconds. It's free. Tell your friends. but here's the deal

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