Trump Administration Live Updates: Trump Is Said to Be Getting Qatari 747 for Air Force One, and Post-Presidency Travel
Where Things Stand
Air Force One: The Trump administration plans to accept a luxury Boeing 747-800 plane from the Qatari royal family that will be upgraded to serve as Air Force One, a senior official with direct knowledge of the matter said. The official said the plane would be donated to President Trump’s presidential library when he leaves office, allowing him to continue using it as a private citizen. The plan — involving possibly the biggest foreign gift ever received by the U.S. government — raises substantial ethical issues. Read more ›
Trade war: Top economic officials from the United States and China met in Geneva for a second day of high-stakes negotiations aimed at easing tensions from Mr. Trump’s trade war. The minimum tariff of 145 percent that Mr. Trump imposed on all Chinese imports has effectively cut off trade between the world’s two largest economies. Read more ›
Middle East visit: As Mr. Trump prepares to head to the Middle East this week for the first major foreign trip of his second term, the president’s relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is showing signs of division. Read more ›
The trade talks between U.S. and Chinese officials in Geneva have concluded for the day. We’re waiting to hear if there will be any further updates today on their outcome.
The Trump administration plans to accept a luxury Boeing 747-8 plane as a donation from the Qatari royal family that will be upgraded to serve as Air Force One, in possibly the biggest foreign gift ever received by the U.S. government, a senior official with direct knowledge of the matter said.
The plane will then be donated to President Trump’s presidential library when he leaves office, the official said, allowing him to continue using it as a private citizen.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in an interview aired on Sunday that he believed that it was safe to fly out of Newark Liberty International Airport, which experienced another brief radar outage on Friday morning, but that he supported scaling back flights from there. In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Duffy said he would be convening a meeting of all the airlines that serve Newark to determine what the scaleback would look like.
The latest Newark outage was the latest in a series of mishaps at the nation’s busiest airports. Duffy told the host, Kristen Welker, he was “concerned about the whole airspace,” in the U.S. and reiterated his plan to overhaul air traffic systems with measures like updating old infrastructure and extending the retirement age for air traffic controllers.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick continued to defend President Trump’s tariff strategy on Sunday, though he declined to give any updates on the ongoing trade talks with China. During an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Lutnick denied that tariffs would affect American consumers, saying that the “businesses and countries primarily eat the tariffs.”
Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming, the No. 2 Republican, said Sunday that he was against raising taxes on the highest earners, an idea that President Trump has floated in recent days. “I oppose raising taxes on anyone,” he said in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met President Trump at the White House in February, the two men could not have been more in sync. The president had designated Houthi militants in Yemen as a terrorist organization. They both spoke of stopping Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb. Mr. Trump even mused about expelling Palestinians from Gaza.
“You say things others refuse to say,” Mr. Netanyahu gushed in the Oval Office, with cameras running. “And then, after the jaws drop, people scratch their heads. And they say, ‘You know, he’s right.’”
Top economic officials from the United States and China met on Sunday in Geneva for their second day of high-stakes negotiations, discussions that are aimed at easing tensions stemming from President Trump’s trade war.
The talks have major implications for the global economy, which has been rocked by the tariffs that the United States and China have imposed on each other in recent months. Mr. Trump has imposed a minimum tariff of 145 percent on all Chinese imports, while China has hit American products with a 125 percent import tax."
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