16 MAY 2025: Air Force One is the official plane of the United States president - a literal White-House-in-the-sky. So what happens when a country wants to give the current president a jumbo jet to use as HIS Air Force One?
This week we look at Qatar’s $400m gesture to the United States - why it can’t work, why it perhaps should work, what may well stop it from working, and what Qatar gets out of it.
Be sure to check out our YouTube channel as well for the Viditorial on this story.
Audio clips courtesy: AP, CNN, Crooked Media, Fox News, NBC News, Sky News Australia
(Also in the podcast, Kamahl briefly talks about the extraordinary usage of the C-word in the New Zealand media this past week. You can (and should!) read his two Substack posts on it here and here.)
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