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Trump ally calls for sterilization of foreigners
Updated on July 1, 2026 – 4:48 p.mReading time: 4 minutes
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Controversial gift from Qatar: Trump flies new Air Force One for the first time
US President Donald Trump flew for the first time on the new presidential plane Air Force One – a controversial gift from the Emirate of Qatar. The USA “We should be very proud” that the plane is “beautiful,” Trump said Wednesday at Joint Base Andrews Washington before the maiden flight to the state of North Dakota. The opposition Democrats speak of “bribery”, but criticism also came from Trump supporters.
The luxury Boeing 747 cost US taxpayers “pretty little,” Trump said. They only paid for the security upgrade “to presidential levels,” he said, without naming a sum. “Frankly, we couldn’t build an airplane like this because we wouldn’t be willing to spend the money,” he added. The aircraft is intended to temporarily replace the two outdated presidential aircraft in the Air Force One fleet until a new aircraft is available.
The U.S. Constitution prohibits government officials from accepting gifts, titles, or the like “from a king, prince, or foreign state” without the consent of the U.S. Congress. To dispel suspicions of Trump’s corruption, the $400 million “donation” from Qatar officially went to the Defense Ministry.
Diplomat: USA and Iran hold indirect talks in Qatar on Wednesday
The USA and the Iran According to diplomatic sources, they want to hold indirect talks in Qatar on Wednesday. Separate consultations with the Qatari and Pakistani mediators are planned, a diplomat told the AFP news agency. US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are therefore not taking part in the “technical discussions” in Doha.
According to Qatari Foreign Office spokesman Madsched al-Ansari, Witkoff and Kushner met with Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani on Tuesday. This is about the negotiations with Iran and the situation in the country Lebanon gone.
Trump ally calls for sterilization of foreigners
Trump ally Sean Davis has called for foreigners to be sterilized before entering the US. The background is the defeat that President Donald Trump suffered on Tuesday in the dispute over US birthright before the US Supreme Court. Accordingly, children born in the United States continue to automatically acquire US citizenship. This also applies to children of parents who are in the USA illegally or only temporarily. Right at the beginning of his second term, Trump signed an executive order with which he wanted to massively restrict birthright rights.
