Donald Trump introduced a converted former Qatari jumbo jet as the new Air Force One. The interim aircraft spotlights Boeing delays and revives questions over foreign gifts and presidential optics.

WASHINGTON, June 19 - President Donald Trump on Friday got a look at his upgraded Boeing 747, a plane gifted by Qatar, at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland as the aircraft neared delivery to join the Air Force One fleet. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

“This is considered the world’s most luxurious plane,” says the US president in front of the aircraft, inside a hangar at Joint Base Andrews. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

President Donald Trump on Friday showed off the new Air Force One, a formerly Qatari-owned jumbo jet that has been converted into the official U.S. presidential aircraft. The new aircraft eschews the Kennedy-era robin’s egg blue exterior of the old plane for a bolder look, with the underbelly of the…