President Donald Trump might be getting a very big gift from a foreign government.

That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post.

I'm Hannah Jewell.

It's Monday, May 12th.

Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories.

The president is scheduled to visit the Middle East this week.

The trip is expected to focus on business deals and trade ties.

One place Trump will be stopping is Qatar.

And the oil-rich Gulf nation seems pretty pleased to be receiving the U.S. president, so pleased,

in fact, that its royal family is considering gifting him a Boeing 747. No final agreement has been reached,

but Qatar says it's discussing donating an aircraft to the U.S. government for Trump to use.

Trump appeared to confirm those discussions yesterday.

He has long complained about the state of the current jet used as Air Force One.

If it goes through, this would probably be the largest gift given to a U.S. president by a foreign government in modern history. The plane is worth

hundreds of millions of dollars. Ethics experts are concerned. They think such a donation from a

foreign government would violate the emoluments clause of the Constitution. That forbids

U.S. officials from accepting gifts or other things of value from foreign officials

without congressional approval. But Trump's team argues that it would be legal to accept the donation.

That's because it would be transferred to the Trump presidential library shortly before his

second term concludes. But that loophole hasn't reassured the ethics experts.

They worry it will set a bad precedent.

The U.S. and China agreed to lower tariffs on each other's goods for 90 days. That's number two.

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