Loomer: Qatari jet gift a 'stain' on Trump presidency

Conservative provocateur Laura Loomer, who has been a staunch supporter of President Trump, called him out over the weekend as the White House prepares to receive a $400 million Boeing jet from the Qatari government.

"I love President Trump. I would take a bullet for him," Loomer wrote in a post on the social media platform X. "But, I have to call a spade a spade. We cannot accept a $400 million 'gift' from jihadists in suits."

"This is really going to be such a stain on the admin if this is true," Loomer said.

"I'm so disappointed."

Trump confirmed reporting that Qatar's royal family plans to give a Boeing 747-8 airplane to the Department of Defense (DOD) to replace the aging Air Force One while he's in office. According to ABC News, which first reported the plans, the plane will be transferred to Trump's presidential library when he leaves office. The gift is expected to be formally announced when Trump travels to the Middle East this week.

Loomer, who has faced backlash in the past for spreading anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric, blasted the arrangement as a move that would run contrary to the push to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a "terrorist organization."

"It’s going to be hard for the admin to designate the Muslim Brotherhood and obliterate Iranian proxies in Hamas and Hezbollah when Qatar funds the Muslim Brotherhood, harbors HAMAS, and the US just accepted a $400 million jet from Qatar," Loomer wrote. "The biggest lobby in DC is the Qatar lobby. We are watching an Islamic takeover of our country in real time."

Democratic lawmakers have criticized the gift as a potential violation of the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause, which prohibits individuals holding public office from accepting valuables from foreign officials.

"A gift you use for four years and then deposit in your library is still a gift (and a grift)," Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) posted on X on Sunday.

Trump, however, defended the move in a post on Truth Social on Sunday and dismissed his critics as "Crooked Democrats" and "World Class Losers."

"So the fact that the Defense Department is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a 747 aircraft to replace the 40 year old Air Force One, temporarily, in a very public and transparent transaction, so bothers the Crooked Democrats that they insist we pay, TOP DOLLAR, for the plane. Anybody can do that! The Dems are World Class Losers!!! MAGA" he wrote.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt also sought to justify the jumbo jet donation — the details of which she said are still being worked out — during an appearance on Fox News on Monday.

"The Qatari government has graciously offered to donate a plane to the Department of Defense. The legal details of that are still being worked out," Leavitt said. "Any donation to this government is always done in full compliance with the law, and we commit ourselves to the utmost transparency, and we will continue to do that."

But Loomer has demonstrated considerable pull with Trump in the past. Most recently, Loomer was widely credited for the firings of multiple national security aides last month, after she met with the president in the Oval Office in early April.

Asked about her role in his political sphere last fall, Trump said, "Laura is a supporter. I don’t control Laura; she’s a free spirit."

In a separate X post on Sunday, in response to a follower who asked why she doesn't work at the White House, Loomer accused staffers of circumventing her employment to various roles.

"The President has hired me 4 times. All 4 directives to on board me have been Blocked by his staff," she wrote.