Trump Continues To Defend Qatar Gifting Us $400m Jet: 'we Should Have The Most Impressive Plane'

President Donald Trump continued to take sides his determination to judge a $400 cardinal pitchy from Qatar during an exclusive question and reply pinch Sean Hannity connected Air Force One connected Tuesday.

Trump has received backlash for readying to judge nan jumbo Boeing 747-8 pitchy from nan Qatari royal family since news of nan gift collapsed connected Sunday.

"Now, immoderate group say, 'oh, you shouldn't judge gifts for nan country.' My cognition is, why wouldn't I judge nan gift? We're giving to everybody else? Why wouldn't I judge nan gift?" nan president said to Hannity.

TRUMP DEFENDS QATAR JUMBO JET OFFER AS TROUBLED BOEING FAILS TO DELIVER NEW AIR FORCE ONE FLEET 

President Donald Trump continued to take sides his determination to judge a $400 cardinal luxury pitchy from nan Qatari royal family to temporarily usage arsenic Air Force One connected Tuesday during an exclusive question and reply pinch Sean Hannity. (Fox News)

The luxury jet, which was offered to nan United States because of delays successful Boeing's production of nan caller Air Force One fleet, will service arsenic a impermanent method of proscription truthful that nan existent statesmanlike level doesn't person to beryllium flown. 

Trump has said AF1 is astir 40 years aged and looks "much little impressive" erstwhile compared to nan planes successful Saudi Arabia, nan UAE and Qatar.

"You know, we're nan United States of America. I judge that we should person nan astir awesome plane," Trump told Hannity.

TRUMP CLARIFIES OWNERSHIP OF AIRCRAFT IN DEFENSE OF QATAR'S GIFT 

In summation to Boeing moving down connected delivering nan caller fleet, nan jumbo pitchy is simply a gift to nan Department of Defense for "a occupation good done" successful successfully defending Qatar "for galore years," Trump added connected Truth Social a fewer hours aft nan interview.

"Why should our military, and truthful our taxpayers, beryllium forced to salary hundreds of millions of Dollars erstwhile they tin get it for FREE from a state that wants to reward america for a occupation good done," he wrote.

Trump has said nan level will beryllium retired to nan statesmanlike room erstwhile Boeing delivers its caller AF1 fleet.

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The president will beryllium successful Qatar connected Wednesday for nan adjacent extremity of his three-day visit to nan Middle East, marking his first awesome world travel of his 2nd term. 

President Donald Trump walks retired of Air Force One to a purple carpet astatine King Khalid International Airport Royal Terminal successful Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, connected Tuesday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

He spent Tuesday successful Saudi Arabia gathering pinch Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.