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Saturday, June 20, 2026

Qatari Jet Boeing 747-8 (gift to POTUS) - Hegseth signed deal July 7 (after June 14 2025 D.C. Parade) - $934 million makeover cost

CNN Investigator Natasha Bernard revealed details

concerning "deal" made by Qatari foreign minister to 

offer Trump personally a "used" Air Force One, replete

with listening devices / intelligence spying built-in to walls

of the BOEING 747-8 +++++   CNN.com
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Two months later -- NY TIMES shares investigative details

the BOEING 747 that was stated to be a 


gift to POTUS 47 (after its use in
2020s will go to Trump Library,
Mar-a-Lago Golf resort)

the Pentagon (Pete Hegseth) is now

used Air Force funding for "Nuclear Modernization"

pay $934 million costs to make over

the Qatari jet into a gold-adorned

Air Force One

NYTimes.com/2025/07/27/us/politics/air-force-one-trump-cost.html

May 28 UPDATE: Washingtonpost has scoop

Too Many Legal Liabilities for this "Gift" to be finalized

despite claims by the Trump - Vance administration / deal
brokers

May 21 -- news release by Dept.Defense
Secy. Hegseth has accepted a gift of a 

Boeing 747 according to

all federal rules & regulations

nytimes.com/live/2025/05/21/us/trump-news#qatar-plane-trump-air-force-one

Experts agree the updated intelligence
and safety measures that must be
built for a "Flying White House"
will cost
hundreds of millions, paid by
taxpayers and their descendants

Details on Qatari 747 which Sec. Defense HEGSETH accepted (probably illegally) for POTUS who intends it to be in his Future Presidential Library/Exhibit Hall

 AP NEWS (coverage - online article)

apnews.com/article/trump-qatar-jet-air-force-ethics

. . .

Jonathan J. Cooper

1 May 2026 on Press Website

valuation of $400 million / this defied

Presidential / Counter-Intelligence "common sense"

Summer Solstice - longest day (most daylight) 2026

More details ( ABC NEWS feature story)

"Sunday to mark the longest day of year

for half the planet"

marks the astronomical start of summer north of

the equator 


June 21, 2026 

4:24 a.m.

Sun at highest point in the sky for the longest day of the year

https://www.almanac.com/content/first-day-summer-summer-solstice

US, Qatar plan to unfreeze billions (u.s. and Emirate financial accounts) for purchases to keep talks ongoing [ further coverage WSJ Wall Street Journal ]

Qatar (a monarchy / Emirate - oil-rich tiny nation)

U.S. (the Executive Branch of a constitutional government)

according to jpost.com

begin to act on plans / initiative to

unfreeze billions of

accounts which have been/

were for decades "frozen"

Cease-fire talks paused as Iran closes STRAIT of HORMUZ

Jerusalem POST

jpost.com/ Sat. June 20

report (online article);

Vance delays departure for

Lake Lucerne, Switzerland . . .

Disney film - "Follow Me, Boys!" - 1966 [ screening at 128 Front Street, Buchanan MI ] - 2 hours, 11 minutes

The BUCHANAN District Library will

celebrate a local Scouting anniversary

TROOP 541

(100th year) with a free screening (indoors

with A/C) on

July 18, 2026

6:30 p.m. -- free and

a celebratory ocassion!

it is the debut film for

Baby-Boomer action actor

Kurt Russell a Disney stalwart

child actor . . .

IMDb.com/title/tt0060420

imdb.com/

Pancakes, Sausage + Gravy, Biscuits, Milk, Coffee

 Fly-in (4th Sunday)

Jerry Tyler Airport, north of

Niles, Michigan 49120

2018 Lake Street

June 28, 2026

8 a.m. - until Noon EASTERN