{"id":773754,"date":"2026-07-20T11:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/773754\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T11:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:29:13","slug":"trump-says-new-air-force-one-will-be-sent-to-get-maxed-out-for-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/773754\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says new Air Force One will be sent to get \u2018maxed out\u2019 for upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump said the new Air Force One plane that was gifted by Qatar will be sent away for upgrades, amid swirling concerns about its security features<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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As he returned from a trip to the FIFA World Cup final<\/a> in New Jersey on Sunday, Trump was asked by reporters whether the plane lacked missile-defense capabilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has a lot of capability,\u201d Trump said of the jet, which he started using this month. \u201cBut as I understand it, in about a month \u200bor so, they\u2019re gonna send it to have it be maxed out… It\u2019ll take about \u200ba month,\u201d Trump added. He did not detail the nature of the works.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s decision to fly back from a NATO summit in Turkey in a different presidential aircraft<\/a> made headlines earlier this month. <\/p>\n

The decision to ditch the Qatari-donated jet set off speculation about why the administration made the switch and the readiness of the new Air Force One. <\/p>\n

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Speaking to the media at the time, Trump denied security concerns were involved. But he said, \u201cYou know the life of a president is very dangerous,\u201d and he added later: \u201cI\u2019m No. 1 on the kill list for Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n

NBC News reported<\/a> that the Secret Service urged Trump to take the old plane home from Turkey because he was departing from a location near the Middle East and the U.S. had just resumed hostilities with Iran.<\/p>\n

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Why Trump was advised to not use Qatari-gifted Air Force One plane<\/p>\n

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Four New York Times journalists were subpoenaed<\/a> by the Justice Department this month, after writing stories about security concerns involving the new Air Force One.<\/p>\n

The superluxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet was gifted from the royal family of Qatar in 2025 <\/a>to be used by Trump as the new Air Force One.<\/p>\n

In June, Trump welcomed its delivery <\/a>in an appearance at Joint Base Andrews just outside Washington. <\/p>\n

Decked out in a red, white and dark-blue blue color scheme \u2014 a departure from the lighter blue on the previous model \u2014 Trump called it a \u201cflying White House at a level of luxury no one has ever seen before,\u201d adding \u201cnobody tops this one.\u201d <\/p>\n

He flew on it to North Dakota<\/a> on July 1 during a museum event honoring Theodore Roosevelt.<\/p>\n

The ornate jet is meant to serve as a temporary replacement as Boeing works on delivering<\/a> long-delayed next-generation Air Force One planes expected in 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump said the new Air Force One plane that was gifted by Qatar will be sent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-773754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}