THE PLANE! THE PLANE!

Here's an obvious solution to the whole Qatari plane deal:

Trump's library takes the plane (sooner or later) and pays for storage and so forth. When Trump leaves the White House, he can do whatever he wants with the damned thing.

This way the bribe/gift will not reach him while he's President. No harm/no foul.

(Sort of. No hassle with the Constitution, at least. Probably.)

Leave the Defense Department out of it. The American people will not have to foot the bill to renovate/make safe this white elephant because the 747-8 will never be Air Force One.

Bottom line: The baby gets his toy; the rest of us go back to worrying about the next eminent threat to America.

Sure, it's a kind of appeasement.

But I think appeasement has been given a bad name. True, it helped precipitate the Second World War, but it also set the stage for the ultimate defeat of the Third Reich.

Appeasement gave Hitler the confidence to start the war two years before the military and weapons production were ready for it. Initial success was followed by inevitable and utter failure.

Appeasement might have been a way of giving the bastard enough rope to hang himself.

(BTW: "86 47" doesn't mean assassinate the president. It means get rid of the guy, some how. If the 2026 elections favor the Dems, impeachment and conviction will do the job handily. Ballots, not bullets.)