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Marco, The Little Boy Who Couldn't: "Rubio Suddenly Has Amnesia on Key Detail About Trump's Qatar Jet"
Marco Rubio Suddenly Has Amnesia on Key Detail About Trump’s Qatar JetSecretary of State Marco Rubio apparently has frighteningly little knowledge about the supposed gift.
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
May 20, 2025/12:42 p.m. ET
Either State Secretary Marco Rubio is playing dumb about Donald Trump’s new private jet from Qatar, or he’s actually dumb.
While testifying before Congress Tuesday, Rubio claimed that he had no knowledge of reports that ownership of the plane would eventually swap to Trump’s presidential library.
“It’s not your understanding that the plane ultimately will belong to Trump or to the president’s library?” pressed Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy.
“I’m not involved at that level, I’ve never heard that before,” the state secretary—whose job it is to manage and carry out U.S. foreign policy—said. “What I’ve heard is that plane will replace Air Force One, which is an Air Force plane.”