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The scandal around President Trump's $400 million luxury jet just won't go away.

The Atlantic reports that Trump is privately telling his advisors it's humiliating for a president to fly around in an outdated jet,

and he's even mused about keeping the jet after he leaves the White House.

All that makes this whole story worse on multiple levels.

Meanwhile, MAGA figures are increasingly breaking with Trump on this,

and even some congressional Republicans are tentatively criticizing Trump for it as well, which is a true rarity. All this got us thinking that this story

is actually a lot more serious and consequential than it first appears. Today we're talking about

all this with Russell Berman, a staff writer at the Atlantic who co-wrote that report.

Russell, thanks for coming on. Great to be with you. So you and Jonathan Lemire report that Trump

has told AIDS and advisors that it's humiliating for the American president to fly in an outdated

plane and that foreign leaders will laugh at him if he shows up in such a plane. One outside

advisor tells you guys that he's mused about keeping the jet after his presidency. Russell,

it sounds like Trump is privately angry over this whole thing. Why should he fly in an antique plane?

Maybe he doesn't understand why it's a scandal. What does your reporting indicate along these

lines about his mood and mindset on all this?

I mean, yeah, the sources that talked to my colleague, Jonathan Lumier, certainly indicate that he would be, he is angry and he's been publicly angry.

He was, you know, when a reporter asked him about this, he said it was,

you know, stupid to ask about the idea. Like, to him, the idea that you would essentially

look a gift plane in the mouth and not accept this $400 million gift from a foreign government

is absurd.

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