As Jon Stewart returned to The Daily Show this week, he has some questions about the Trump administration’s latest shady dealings with country that has ties to terrorist organizations.
On Monday’s episode of the Comedy Central show, the comedian called President Donald Trump a “reverse Oprah” for accepting a $400 million jumbo luxury jet as a gift from the Qatar royal family, which he will use as his Air Force One and then donate to his Trump presidential library foundation.
“What? Qatar is giving us a plane that Trump gets to keep?” he said. “He’s like the reverse Oprah. ‘I get a jet! … and that’s it. I get a jet, for my library.’ Why does his library need a jet? ‘Yeah, I’m calling from Europe, and I need a book about Trump by morning. And the book must travel in the comfort and style one can only get from Qatar.’”
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Stewart added, “It’s not a free jet. That’s the point. You know the expression, ‘there’s no such thing as a free lunch’’? That’s about being skeptical of the motives of somebody who gives you a sandwich… a sandwich, a BLT. Now, imagine that that BLT has an engine, nine bathrooms and funds proxy wars.”
Trump previously called the deal for the super luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet a “very public and transparent transaction” with the Defense Department. But the nature of what may be the most valuable gift ever bestowed upon the United States by a foreign government, has raised some questions.
“They’re giving us a free jet. I could say, ‘No, no, no. Don’t give us— I wanna pay you a billion,’ or ‘400 million,’ or whatever it is. Or I could say, ‘Thank you very much,’” Trump said in a clip.
The news of the gift comes ahead of Trump’s trip to Qatar, the first foreign trip of his second term.