Plane stupid: why MAGA loyalists hate Trump's Qatari gift
The News Agents - USA
Global
4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump's trip to the Gulf should have been accompanied by glowing headlines and fawning Fox coverage about the hundreds of billions of dollars secured in fresh investment into America from allies in the region. But there's one deal in particular that has riled friends and foes of the President: a $400m jet being gifted to Trump by Qatar. He's said he would be "stupid" to turn down the offer - critics have raised ethical, intelligence, and corruption concerns. Is the perception of a grift the ultimate gift for the Democrats?
Later, we speak to Bryan Lanza, a veteran of both the 2016 and 2024 Trump campaigns, about whether the White House should be feeling the heat over the tariff climbdown - and whether claiming there is a migrant "invasion" justifies suspending a thousand year old legal principle.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.3 | This is a global player original podcast. It's a genocide that's taking place that you people |
| 0:15.0 | don't want to write about, but it's a terrible thing that's taking place and farmers are being killed. |
| 0:22.6 | They happen to be white, but whether they're white or black, |
| 0:26.6 | makes no difference to me, but white farmers are being brutally killed |
| 0:31.6 | and their land is being confiscated in South Africa. |
| 0:34.6 | And the newspapers and the media, television media, doesn't even talk about it. |
| 0:39.2 | The genocide Trump is talking about is probably not the one that's on your mind. |
| 0:45.9 | Trump is talking about white South Africans, Afrikaners, that he is now welcoming to the United States, |
| 0:53.2 | the only set of refugees that is welcome in the US. |
| 0:59.2 | Is Trump accidentally decolonising Africa as we speak? |
| 1:04.2 | And the trouble is, the reason the TV and radio and print media haven't covered the genocide is there is no genocide. But as a symbol |
| 1:14.7 | of where Donald Trump stands on these important issues of migration, of those people who need help, |
| 1:24.2 | this tells us quite a lot. Welcome to the Newsagents USA. It's John. It's Emily. And let's take |
| 1:36.7 | you back to a scene at Dulles Airport on Monday evening. When the first group around 50, 60 |
| 1:43.0 | refugees, I feel weird even using that term, white South Africans |
| 1:48.0 | arrived in America to start a new future in the promised land because Donald Trump has decided |
| 1:56.6 | they are people facing terror near certain death, and he wants them in America. |
| 2:02.3 | Yeah, it's a very far cry from Give Me Your Poor, Your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free, |
| 2:07.8 | the poem at the bottom of the Statue of Liberty. |
| 2:11.1 | So in January, Sura Ramaphosa, the South African President, signed a law into being that allowed the government |
| 2:19.6 | to seize privately owned land without compensation in certain circumstances when it deemed equitable |
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