DOHA, Qatar — President Donald Trump’s journey to Qatar is off to a flying begin.
Like Saudi Arabia a day earlier, Qatar didn’t hassle ready for Trump to land earlier than getting down to impress him with a fighter jet escort.
As Trump flew in to Riyadh on Tuesday after which in to Doha on Wednesday as a part of his Center East journey, he obtained ceremonial escorts from every nation’s F-15 fighter jets, exceptionally uncommon sights.
A White Home official, Margo Martin, posted movies of the escorts on-line.
“Saudi F-15’s offering honorary escort for Air Drive One!” she wrote on Tuesday. The Royal Saudi Air Drive has the world’s largest fleet of American-made F-15s after the U.S. Air Drive.
Then on Wednesday, Martin posted: “what a view flying into Qatar!!!” She even captured one of many Qatari aviators, sitting within the F-15’s backseat, returning the favor by taking an image of Air Drive One.
The fighter jets aren’t the one planes Qatar has used to impress Trump, providing to present him a luxurious Boeing 747-8 that the U.S. may use as Air Drive One whereas new variations of the airplane are below development by Boeing.
Trump has defended the concept as a fiscally sensible transfer for the US. However his critics have questioned what would quantity to a president accepting an astonishingly worthwhile present from a overseas authorities, calling it “bare corruption” and “a grave nationwide safety menace.”
The Republican president is on a three-nation Center East journey and visits the United Arab Emirates on Thursday.
