The Qataris Gave Trump an Airplane. He Crippled Their Country in Return.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/08/qatar-jet-donald-trump/688321/

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StillAlive@piefed.world · 43 pts · 18d

Still amused by this line:

The country could now claim the unenviable distinction of having been attacked by Iran and Israel in the same year.

Almacca@aussie.zone · 43 pts · 17d

Anyone making a 'deal' with Trump gets everything they deserve when he inevitably shits all over them. It's not like there hasn't been decades of this behaviour.

FaceDeer@fedia.io · 18 pts · 17d (1 reply)

A particularly schadenfreudic incident of face-eating.

DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 3 pts · 17d

Get real. The leadership all have private planes. they are sitting it out in Switzerland while actual citizens catch bullets.

nkat2112@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 17d

I love that for them.

dan1101@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 17d

Terrible government gets screwed by terrible person

SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 6 pts · 17d

Dumb fucks

fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com · 5 pts · 17d

Join the club

theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 17d

Wish he really did this would be cool of him.

YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 17d
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