Trump’s Mob Understands “Skeezy” Better than the Corruption Beat Journalists
Four days before old man Joe Biden dropped out of the race last summer, I argued that the endless discussion of Joe Biden Old was swamping three far more important stories, starting with whether Donald Trump was a partner, agent, or employee of Saudi Arabia.
[W]e are two days into Trump’s nomination party, and no one has asked — much less answered — whether Donald Trump is a business partner, paid foreign agent, or merely an employee of Saudi Arabia.
This is not a frivolous question. Since Trump left office, his family has received millions in four known deals from the Saudis:
- A deal to host LIV golf tournaments. Forbes recently reported that Trump Organization made less than $800K for about half the tournaments it has hosted. But Trump’s role in the scheme has given credibility to an influence-peddling scheme that aims to supplant the PGA’s influence. When Vivek Ramaswamy learned that two consultants to his campaign were simultaneously working for LIV, he forced them to resign to avoid the worries of influence-peddling. Yet Trump has continued to host the Saudis at his properties.
- A $2 billion investment in Jared Kushner’s private equity firm, in spite of the fact that analysts raised many concerns about the investment, including that he was charging too much and had no experience.
- A deal to brand a property in Oman slated to open in 2028, which has already brought Trump Organization $5 million. The government of Oman is a key partner in the deal, signed with a huge Saudi construction firm.
- A newly-announced deal with the same construction firm involved in the Oman deal, this time to brand a Trump Tower in Jeddah.
These Saudi deals come on top of Trump’s testimony that Turnberry golf course and his Bedford property couldn’t be overvalued because some Saudi would be willing to overpay for them.
But I believe I could sell that LIV Golf for a fortune, Saudi Arabia. I believe I could sell that to a lot of people for numbers that would be astronomical because it is like — very much like owning a great painting.
[snip]
I just felt when I saw that, I thought it was high. But I could see it — as a whole, I could see it if this were s0ld to one buyer from Saudi Arabia — I believe it’s the best house in the State of New York.
And while Eric Trump, not his dad, is running the company, Eric also has a role in the campaign and his spouse Lara has taken over the entire GOP.
Trump never fulfilled the promises to distance himself from his companies in the first term. A very partial review of Trump Organization financial records show the company received over $600K from the Saudis during his first term. As far as I’m aware, no one has even asked this time around.
Which means as things stand, Trump would be the sole beneficiary of payments from key Saudi investors if he became President again. Trump would be, at the very least, the beneficiary of a business deal with the Saudis, as president.
Admittedly, under the Supreme Court’s latest ruling on gratuities, it might be legal for Trump to get a bunch of swank branding deals as appreciation for launder Saudi Arabia’s reputation (one of the things for which Menendez was just convicted).
But that doesn’t mean it should be ignored, politically. It doesn’t mean American voters shouldn’t know these details. It doesn’t mean journalists (besides NYT’s Eric Lipton, whose most recent story on this was buried on page A7) shouldn’t demand answers.
It was, frankly, dizzying when I reread that post (and this one from election day, which added several more questions, including who was bribing Trump via Truth Social and his other online businesses) this morning. As we watch Trump (and Elon Musk) cash in in Saudi Arabia before Trump heads to Qatar to collect a $400 million flying bribe, self-imagined journalists are still obsessing about Joe Biden Old.
It may help to explain why this clear evidence of corruption was buried during the election that Eric Lipton, whose reporting was buried beneath all the Joe Biden Old stories, claimed the other day that “corruption requires explicit quid quo pro,” inverting the relationship between corruption (which includes a broad range of activities, much of it legal, of which the common understanding of bribery is a subset, of which John Roberts’ far narrower definition of bribery is a smaller subset of that subset) and bribery.
Just as alarming, though, Lipton pitched what is at least the fourth major story about the corruption of Trump’s memecoin (Molly White was onto this three weeks ago, and remains on it) with a purported contrast. Trump’s memecoin is no “Russian Hoax,” Lipton claimed, repeating Trump’s propaganda term unquestioningly.
I guess if you believe pardoning four of the five people adjudged to have lied about Russia — about the terms of the impossibly lucrative Trump Tower deal negotiated during the election, about the foreknowledge of Russia’s help in the election, about whether Trump’s campaign manager shared campaign strategy in exchange for a commitment to carve up Ukraine, about the terms via which Trump’s rat-fucker got early access to stolen Podesta files, and about whether Trump was involved in his National Security Adviser’s attempt to undercut punitive sanctions on Russia — is a hoax, then you’re bound to have a very constrained understanding of corruption.
This is NYT’s primary journalist covering Trump’s corrupt foreign entanglements, and he confesses he not only can’t explain the import of anything short of bribery, but doesn’t consider it corruption.
No wonder it got buried. No wonder Trump’s corruption continues to get buried under Joe Biden Old mania.
Joe Biden Old is easy enough even beltway scribes can claim to understand it, the purported scandal being that Biden’s aides didn’t publicly announce that they considered that Joe Biden Old might have to use a wheelchair in the future, in a second term, especially if he had a fall, but had not used one yet. That’s the kind of purported scandal the guardians of democracy infesting DC will chase like toddlers.
Remarkably, some of Trump’s most ardent supporters appear to better understand what Lipton claims he does not, how Trump’s overt corruption can harm America.
After ABC advanced the story of the $400 million flying castle Trump is set to take from Qatar, I tried to make some trouble on Xitter, describing Trump’s corruption in ways that might bother even MAGAts.
Just hours later, Laura Loomer posted a racist tweet objecting to the deal.
Loomer did attempt to walk back her statement, disclaiming corruption on Trump’s part, but she did get the import of appearances right.
Ben Shapiro got even closer to my prompt (while matching Loomer’s racism), arguing that accepting this plane was inconsistent with Trump’s claimed ideology of America First.
Taking sacks of goodies from people who support Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood, al-Jazeera, all the rest, that’s not America first. Like, please define America first in a way that says you should take sacks of cash from the Qatari royals who are behind al-Jazeera. It just isn’t America first in any conceivable way. So back to the original question — is this good for President Trump? Is it good for his agenda? Is it good for draining the swamp and getting things done? The answer is, no. It isn’t. It isn’t. If you want President Trump to succeed, this kind of skeezy stuff needs to stop. And here’s the thing, it’s already having an impact. It’s already having an impact.
Even in Congress, people are expressing their opposition on various grounds. Rand Paul complained about the look of it. Ted Cruz invoked the same concerns about Qatar’s ties to Hamas as Loomer and Shapiro.
NYT’s story on the plane, “Trump’s Plan to Take Jet From Qatar Heightens Corruption Concerns,” by Charlie Savage, situated it within all the other corrupt things Trump has done (and it’s a good catalog). But it mostly presents the risk of corruption in terms of benefit to Trump, not the corruption of US policy choices. Lipton’s piece on a Chinese firm with no revenue but with ties to TikTok and the Chinese government, dumping $300 million into Trump’s memecoin, discusses an ethical conflict, but doesn’t ever get around to considering the possibility that Trump will put China’s interests above the interests of any Americans, interests that go well beyond TikTok.
The purchase would create clear ethical conflicts, enriching Mr. Trump’s family at the same time that the president tries to reach a deal that would allow TikTok to keep operating in the United States rather than face a congressionally approved ban.
You want deception of far graver import than the non-disclosure of future, hypothetical wheelchair use? Donald Trump sold himself promising that he would deliver on the interests of American white working class people (or at least American white working class Christian men). But the more important sales deal was happening behind the scenes (or at least, in business deals reported in stories buried beneath dozens of stories on Joe Biden Old), where Trump was selling autocrats overseas and fraudsters around the world on a promise that dismantles not just the spirit of democracy, but even the very commitment to it.
And all that’s before the stuff we don’t yet know, whether all the things that Trump has done that helped China, like dismantling America’s soft power and chipping away at the dollar, were done because Trump is stupid or because he’s corrupt.
I’ve obviously been struggling for a long time about our failure to convey Trump’s corruption in terms that really resonate to the people he’s defrauding (and yes, my suspicions that appealing to racism might do the trick were not disappointed; it’s an insight Peter Pomerantsev develops in his How to Win an Information War). Everything Trump does is corrupt. And that corruption — whether it involves Elon Musk or Qatar or Putin — has a very detrimental effect even on the most committed MAGAt. But they’re not going to care that Trump, their liege, gets an unfair benefit. They’re going to care if the targets of their bigotry benefit or something is unfairly taken away from them.
Until we learn how to describe that, we’ll be missing a key element of the fight to get people, from all parties, to fight for democracy.
“Trump’s Mob Understands “Skeezy” Better than the Corruption Beat Journalists”
Such a lovely diss. I wholeheartedly approve!
Jamie Raskin on yesterday’s edition of Greg Sargent’s podcast, The Daily Blast: “Corruption lies at the heart of this authoritarian assault on our democratic institutions”
The 2 billion dollar bribe to kushner at the end of trump’s first term was money well spent by the saudis. The level of corruption of the trump regime is breathtaking. The lack of meaningful push back from gop congress even more stunning.
Especially in contrast to how they’re still going after Hunter Biden and the Clinton Foundation. IOKIYAR.
Tom Sullivan at Digby’s Hullabaloo: “Court Baiting”
“Over at The Atlantic, Andrew O’Donohue names Trump’s approach to the courts, advanced in the name of popular policies (gift link (removed. sorry!))”
For anyone who’s interested, Sullivan’s post is here, GIFT link intact:
Court-baiting
https://digbysblog.net/2025/05/14/court-baiting/
Tom Sullivan May 14, 2025
I’m confused. No gift link is required to read digbysblog.net
Sorry…the gift link is IN the post at Digby’s place
and TO the O’Donohue article in The Atlantic.
I think O’Donohue is wrong about Trump court-baiting on immigration specifically. Thus far, they’ve suffered defeat after defeat, including at SCOTUS. The process of fighting this out at court has created legal martyrs, even Abrego Garcia of whom (who is not a terrifically sympathetic person) have weakened his support on immigration.
I think Trump is TRYING the tactic by ordering drug companies to lower drugs, but that’s a this-week effort.
The sight of American’s grovelling at the feet of impressively robed Royals is a sight that has sickened me for 50 years. A monarchy established with the guns of religious fundamentalists that rose there in the 1700’s. Which is parallel in many ways with American Christian fundamentalists and its rejection of modernism.
The grovelling has evolved into pure love. Royalty kept in place by reactionary Fundamentalists is now a longed for model.
What you said. Brilliant synopsis.
The Saudis are doing plenty to help pump crypto dollars to Trump as well.
https://www.narativ.org/p/breaking-news-trumps-launch-saudi
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/05/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-secures-historic-600-billion-investment-commitment-in-saudi-arabia/
Which also includes the reviving of the Mid East Marshall Plan to deliver nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia for civil usage.
Or ‘civil’ usage since those genies don’t always stay put in their bottles.
I also wonder what the Israelis feel about the KSA getting this technology without acknowledging UN Resolution 242 (Israel’s right to exist).
There is always a grain of truth in Trump’s musings as he is not wrong about the Saudi’s being willing to overpay for some items as he alludes to MBS’s purchase of Salvator Mundi for 450 million. I would posit the purchase of Jesus to put on his yacht or to give to other Arab leaders is part of a different mindset than buying golf courses at inflated prices for a bribe.
I realize the point of this piece is to somehow break through to the MAGAts about Trump’s corrupt purpose in everything he does but I am miffed at this point about what will break through the hate these people believe?
The ‘Biden Old’ stories just resonate with the left better than Clinton stories these days, so Jake’s take on not knowing George Clooney is something that most people might find unbelievable, but not me. When I look at the Biden clan, I see a group that likes to live in the moment and they do not seem to be the movie going group. Biden’s favorite movie is Chariots of Fire, which is a good movie but probably indicates he does not spend his time watching movies.
It is beyond reasonable debate that Qatar’s provision of the airplane (absent Congressional approval) violates the Foreign Emoluments Clause (U.S. Const. art. I, § 9, cl. 8)) and is therefore presumptively corrupt.
“Corruption, in the American tradition, does not just include blatant bribes and theft from the public till, [it] encompasses many situations where politicians and public institutions serve private interests at the public’s expense.” Teachout, Corruption in America, supra , at 2. . . . How, indeed, could it ever be proven, in a given case, that [the President] had actually been influenced by the [foreign government] payments? The Framers of the Clauses made it simple. Ban the offerings altogether (unless, in the foreign context at least, Congress sees fit to approve them).” Dist. of Columbia v. Trump, 315 F. Supp. 3d 375 (D. Md. 2018) (adopting broad prophylactic reading of the Domestic and Foreign Emoluments Clauses). It is unfortunate that the clearest bar to Trump’s conduct is grounded in an arcane term.
Perhaps the simplest encapsulation of this wrongdoing is that “[n]o man can serve two masters.” Matthew 6:24.
“corruption is why we win”
– Syriana
It occurred to me recently that the Quo for the Qatari plane Quid may have already been consummated:
All of those emirates and kingdoms on the Arabian peninsula require an inordinately huge number of foreign workers, from service employees to specialized engineering and IT workers — the whole range of job types that ICE is making life difficult-to-impossible for, under Trump’s direct orders. It sure seems to me that flooding the global job market by making US working immigrants personas non grata here is a boon to those economies that absolutely can’t get by without them.
Are there studies of world wide immigration stats that might shed light on how much the Arab States are beginning to benefit from US suppression of immigrant workers, and whether those States have suffered significant shortages of guest workers prior to this year?
Also, regarding the polemics surrounding this plane gift: is there a reason not to start calling it “The President’s Flying Dildo?”
Maybe to make emoluments more a part of the common vocabulary, Milton Bradley can come up with a Presidential-Emoluments Special Edition of Clue, one of the myriad of solutions being “murdering the Constitution, in the Red Sea, using the flying Qatari dildo.”
Colbert took the penile approach to the Qatar jumbo jet and ran with it a couple days ago, using Trump’s own musings of inadequacy as a jumping-off point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5CpW4HjozQ
As lame as Eric Lipton’s tortured definition of a bribe is, IMO I feel forced to defend him.
First, SCOTUS severely limited what constitutes a bribe in McDonnell v. US. It’s possible Lipton was basing his argument on what’s provable in court.
Secondly, I personally know Eric. He was my EiC for the Vermont Cynic during the ’86-’87 academic year at UVM.
I served as Sport Editor under Lipton.
The issue is not his description of limitations applicable to the crime of bribery, but his extension of those limitations to recognizing “corruption.” As should not be evident, there is a whole universe of things that are corrupt that would provide a basis for a bribery prosecution.
Ooops-
should say *would NOT provide a basis for a bribery prosecution*
As I noted in the post:
There’s a universe of things called “corruption,” of which many are legal
>A subset of “corruption” = common definition of a bribe
>> A subset of that subset = what John Roberts says is a bribe
Not even all law on corruption is a bribe. The definition of corrupt purpose SCOTUS wrote for obstruction matches what Trump did on Jan6 perfectly.
LOL. The subject is a critical assessment of a piece of his writing. He doesn’t accurately define corruption, or the part of it called bribery. He doesn’t accurately describe the Supreme Court’s constipated limits on what’s necessary to charge a public official with bribery. But he does erroneously assume those limits apply to prosecuting all forms of corruption.
Of course nothing better than shiny gold air palace to distract from the theft of healthcare and food coupled with tariffs that will directly impact the citizenry in the service of other benefits for the rich in legislation currently working its way through the House.
The corruption is so blatant. It’s Congress too. We have to keep talking about eggs and Medicare. How can we break through before the deal is done? Please make calls.
Comer and Gym Jordan took a year to concoct their adorable flowchart:
Northern International Capital $5 million
goes to
Hudson West III $400,000
goes to
Owasco P.C. $150,000
goes to
Lion Hall Group $50,000
goes to
James and Sara Biden $40,000
goes to
private citizen Joe Biden
Compare to:
Qatar $400 million jet
goes to
President Donald J. Trump
See? That took me only a few minutes and I didn’t cost the taxpayers a dime. Where’s my DOGE award?
Bravo!
I’ve been seeing screenshots of the LOOMER Xeet for a day [or maybe two ??] but didn’t really read it until Marcy posted about it here…so this part caught my attention today because of other news reported by AP:
LOOMER:
AP:
Mexican security chief confirms cartel family members entered US in a deal with Trump administration https://apnews.com/article/el-chapo-sinaloa-cartel-trump-border-harfuch-86572a31c88a216da7cd5f33006a0011 Updated 11:25 PM EDT, May 13, 2025
Here’s Aaron Reichlin-Melnick re: that AP piece:
https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lp5apiqz5k2i
May 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Other cartels would probably kill them if they can find them.
Terrorist Designations of International Cartels https://www.state.gov/terrorist-designations-of-international-cartels/ Rubio February 20, 2025
Sinaloa Cartel Leaders Charged with Narco-Terrorism, Material Support of Terrorism and Drug Trafficking https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/sinaloa-cartel-leaders-charged-narco-terrorism-material-support-terrorism-and-drug-0 United States Attorney, SD California May 13, 2025
Seems like this didn’t bother Loomer either until Marcy’s tweet, in language MAGAts could understand. They dont like being owned by the libs.
Don’t we have a potential quid quo pro case now, in the form of 1.2 trillion dollar agreement with Qatar?
Who stole the people’s money? ‘Twas him’
https://thomasnast.com/cartoons/who-stole-the-peoples-money-do-tell/
https://oversight.house.gov/whistle/
James Comer’s link for reporting fraud and abuse. Whatever you do, DO NOT report $400 million jets from Qatar to Trump. Pass it on!
https://bsky.app/profile/ericlipton.nytimes.com/post/3lp6ghutii22l
May 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
GIFT link to:
Trump-Kushner Hotel Project in Serbia Hits a Snag: Alleged Forgery
Serbian authorities say an official admitted to forging a document allowing
a protected site in Belgrade to be demolished and replaced with a Trump hotel.
Eric Lipton / Pavle Kosic Published May 14, 2025 Updated May 15, 2025, 7:43 a.m. ET
Reposted by Wendy Siegelman:
https://bsky.app/profile/lorak.bsky.social/post/3lp5rzamzik2a
May 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
From the CNBC article [italics added]:
Joshua Friedman has a pdf link to the filing [District Court of Eastern District of PA]:
https://bsky.app/profile/joshuajfriedman.com/post/3lp62cwyuas2d
May 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Not sure that Trmp’s Mob does understand “skeezy” better than journalists.
Someone I’ve known for years is now pure MAGA and getting more so. She posts a lot on Facebook. Yesterday she posted the recent satirical meme about “Saudis gave Clinton a $17 million helicopter and not one single Democrat had anything to say” with the original photo which is labeled “satire” in the lower left corner. Only she posted it as fact.
I commented with a link to the Snopes.com article debunking it and asked her to let me know if she found any substantiation of such a helicopter gift. She deleted my comment, didn’t reply to me, and her original post is still up on Facebook.
It seems to me that she wants to believe the worst about Democrats and others who are opposed to Trmp in order to justify anything and everything Trmp has done and is doing. If Trmpists know skeeze, they also know “everybody’s doing it so our guy should get a pass too.” They’re soaking in the sleaze and, perhaps, enjoying the feeling. Trmp gives people permission to be their own worst selves and this is part of it.
It is a difficult wall to break through, True Believer territory, and a Voltairean progression from absurdity to atrocity. This friend I’ve known to be a kind and generous person but now I certainly don’t trust her and feel in my bones she’d turn me in to the “authorities” if push came to shove.
I can no longer have an honest conversation with her because she is no longer honest and I suspect this holds true for most if not all of Trmp’s Mob. How to change that takes more than a twist of rhetoric and a change in approach.
Their worldview has nothing to do with facts, only feelings and identity. Until their identity is broken they won’t let go of the belief system which bolsters their identity. Our challenge is how to break their identity when they are willing to cling to it even as their authority figures crush them economically.
Not far from me is a house with a 6 foot wide wooden sign attached to a tree facing the road. It’s impossible to miss as you drive by. The sign is “TRUMP VANCE 2024.” Pretty sure the election is over.
They’re virtue-signaling to other MAGAs.
My observation is that anger and fear, fear and anger are the principal emotions of the Trmpists, if this person is any example. Their identity is wrapped up in the people they hate, in this particular case, it is immigrants who are always criminals and the “entitled” like Harvard. To break them of that identity, to take away their hate objects, their perspective victims, is a long pull over a bad road and, probably, not possible I suspect.
Give them a new hate object/victim? Maybe, if Trmp and his minions can be shown to be the ones who are consistently abusing them but I’m not gonna hold my breath on that.
Yeah, fact checking is not any kind of convincer and “debate” is impossible with those who so desperately want to believe the worse about the “others” and their opposition. Absolute agreement in the echo chamber is what my Trmpist acquaintance doesn’t just want but demands. And her view is confirmed by at least one other former acquaintance with whom I’ve broken off contact. He objected to my writing about the fundamental nihilism of Trmp et alia and that now is years ago. It’s only worse today I believe.
The Qataris duped Trump. That massive aging lux jumbo jet eats fuel like mad and needs very expensive upkeep. Just 100 days in yet and yes his overt corruption is sickening and unchecked, but style wise is on par with Trumps decades long obsession to be seen as an American emir or king. He’s always been the king of his self designed fiefdoms, from naming his son Baron, shaping his family like Russian royalty who settled in the US-to buying a lux yacht called the Nabilia from notorious Saudi arms dealer and Iran Contra point man Adnan Khashoggi in the late 80’s. If that name is familiar yes he was the uncle to Jamal who was tracked by Pegasus spyware, then horrifically murdered and dismembered by MBS goons for being a professional journalist who simply reported inconvenient facts about MBS and other Saudi royals.
Anyway, regarding the lux jet.. local NJ journalism added context to a Forbes story about it:
https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/05/turns-out-the-jokes-on-trump-when-it-comes-to-that-qatari-jumbo-jet.html
“Turns out, the joke’s on Trump when it comes to that Qatari jumbo jet.
Qatari officials had a problem: They were stuck with this jumbo jet, “a palace in the sky” — expensive to operate and maintain, and one of the remaining gas-guzzling planes they have been trying to unload.
They’re a lot like a guy who gets tired of filling up that three-city-blocks-to-a gallon Hummer he bought years ago to impress his friends.
These days, Qatari officials want smaller, nimbler, more versatile planes that go unnoticed on the tarmac as they slip in and out of town.
So, what to do with these ostentatious monstrosities of the sky, they wondered, because as one expert said, “The market is incredibly illiquid for a jet like this.”
And along came Donald Trump.
We’ll let Forbes pick up the story from there:
While many have speculated that the Qataris have offered Trump the luxurious plane to curry favor with the famously transactional president, there may be a simpler rationale: they just don’t want it anymore.
The royals have failed to sell the plane, which was put on the market in 2020, according to an archived listing. Giving it away could save Qatar’s rulers a big chunk of change on maintenance and storage costs, aviation experts told Forbes. Making Trump happy would be an added bonus.
Qatar, which has given away another blinged-out 747 and may have mothballed two more, epitomizes the fading demand for these huge, fuel-guzzling, highly personalized airplanes. There aren’t many who want to buy them, and many of the governments and royal families who own them have been trying to ditch them over the past decade.
The jet costs $23,000 an hour to operate, according to Corporate Jet Investor — which is probably why the Qataris’ gift to Trump flew only 1,069 hours in the five years before it was put on the market in 2020, according to Forbes’ report.
Trump is peeved that Boeing, currently working on two jets for presidential travel, is years behind schedule. Delivery, originally promised in 2024, is now 2029. Trump envisions using the jet during his presidency, then taking ownership of it via his presidential library when the new jets are delivered.
“Only a FOOL would not accept this gift on behalf of our Country,” Trump wrote on his social-media platform Truth Social.
Putting aside the argument that it’s illegal for Trump to accept such a gift without Congressional approval — and that some GOP elected officials are using words like “espionage” and “unconstitutional” to describe the gift — experts disagree that it would be foolish to turn it down.
It would cost hundreds of millions of dollars to be modified to serve as an airborne command center, with encrypted communications systems, shielding that would protect the electronics from the effects of a nuclear blast and defenses against missiles, Forbes reported. That would take at least five years starting again from scratch, one expert said.
And even if Congress appropriated the money to modify the jet — and that’s a long shot — making those changes won’t be simple. Boeing already is struggling with problems with suppliers for interior components of the presidential jets, the wiring design, and finding workers with security clearances to work on such a sensitive project.
There’s an old saying that a boat owner’s happiest days are when he buys a boat, and when he sells it. For the Qataris, that’s probably true about jumbo jets.”
I heard that a boat is a hole in the water that you fill with money. Maybe this plane is a hole in the air that you keep flying by burning money in its engines.