President Donald Trump just redecorated the Boeing jet gifted to him by the Qatari Emir, and the liberal media did what it always does - throw a tantrum about it. On Wednesday’s episode of MS NOW’s The Last Word, host Lawrence O’Donnell and his squinty eyes glared through the camera and proclaimed "Donald Trump flaunted the single biggest piece of corruption in American history. Donald Trump showed off the largest object to ever be corruptly sought and accepted by an American politician." “The saying, ‘When you’ve got it, flaunt it,’ was never meant as advice for politicians,” O’Donnell began his rant over Trump, who he’s so obsessed with that he probably dreams about him. Where was his outrage when Jill Biden received an 18-carat gold and diamond necklace, also from the Emir of Qatar? That's (D)ifferent.    “The country will never get to fly on that plane,” O’Donnell lamented, like he thinks that any American can just walk onto Air Force One and fly wherever they want. Then, he connected Trump and dictators again: “Donald Trump said today that he went to a foreign dictator and asked him for a plane.” In the clip of Trump that O’Donnell used as backup for these claims, Trump himself said that he asked to borrow the jet “for a period of time” while the other Boeing 747 planes were under construction. O'Donnell claimed the president "has two perfectly capable and functioning 747's," but they're over 35 years old and increasingly obsolete and expensive to maintain. But O’Donnell simply couldn’t entertain any rational claims for a new plane: Donald Trump wanted one [plane] that he could take home with him. And so the scheme that a Democratic Congress must find a way to prevent is for Donald Trump to take that 747 with him as part of his so-called Presidential Library, and then use it to fly wherever he wants to go after his time in office. It's an unprecedented arrangement, but it's not some national emergency that Democrats "must find a way to prevent" it. O'Donnell's rant President Trump used it for the first time this past week to fly to the Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library dedication in North Dakota, which O’Donnell of course used as another avenue of attack: Teddy Roosevelt would be horrified by Donald Trump's mode of transportation today. Teddy Roosevelt would have immediately urged the impeachment of a president who solicited a gift from anyone, especially a foreign dictator. On the contrary, Teddy Roosevelt was the first President to fly on an airplane in October of 1910. He also received many gifts from people O’Donnell would probably classify as “foreign dictators,” including the warmongering Emperor of Ethiopia and the rulers of Russia and Japan. “'Offensive and contemptible.' That is exactly what Teddy Roosevelt surely would have said about the 'screaming vulgarity of the foolish, spread-eagled orator' flying on a counterfeit Air Force One today,” O’Donnell added. Either O’Donnell was being intentionally obtuse or intentionally obfuscating the facts; there’s nothing “counterfeit” about the plane. Any fixed-wing aircraft carrying the President of the United States IS Air Force One. The left hates Trump so much that they can’t stand to see anything good happening for him, even as he represents them and all other Americans on the world stage. Instead, they’ll drag him down and pray that his new plane crashes and burns, along with the country at large. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: MS NOW's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 7/1/26 10:01:53 LAWRENCE O'DONNELL: The saying, 'When you've got it, flaunt it' was never meant as advice for politicians.  But today, Donald Trump flaunted the single biggest piece of corruption in American history. Donald Trump showed off the largest object to ever be corruptly sought and accepted by an American politician. [Cut to video] DONALD TRUMP: The head of Boeing said this is considered the best 747 they've ever built.  And I went to Qatar. I said, 'I'd like to use it for a period of time because the other ones, as you know, are under construction.' They'll be here in two years. And because, you know, the plane is 35 years old. So I said I'd like to use it.  And the Emir, Tamim, who's a great gentleman, he said, 'No, no, I'd like to make a contribution to the country.' [Cut back to live] O'DONNELL: The country isn't going to use that 400 million dollar gift that the Emir gave to Donald Trump. The plan is for Donald Trump to be the only person who ever uses that plane. That is the corrupt plan for that plane.  The United States of America already has two perfectly capable and functioning 747's in service right now as Air Force One. And the federal government has ordered two more Boeing 747's to replace those two versions of Air Force One that are currently operating.  But Donald Trump wanted one that he could take home with him.  And so the scheme that a Democratic Congress must find a way to prevent is for Donald Trump to take that 747 with him as part of his so-called presidential library, and then use it to fly wherever he wants to go after his time in office. The country will never get to fly on that plane, but the country actually ended up having to pay for that plane, hundreds of millions of dollars, at least, to outfit it as a workable version of Air Force One.  (...) 10:05:10 p.m. O'DONNELL: And suddenly, for the first time in world history, a President of the United States was given an airplane from another country.  Donald Trump said today that he went to a foreign dictator and asked him for a plane. And he used that plane for the first time today to fly to a dedication of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. Now, it might seem a little late to just now be dedicating a presidential library to someone who was president more than 100 years ago. But presidential libraries are actually a relatively new thing in presidential history, beginning with President Herbert Hoover, who left office on Inauguration day in 1933.  Teddy Roosevelt was a rich New York Republican like Donald Trump, who served as president from 1901 to 1909.  In a first for presidential library dedication speeches, Donald Trump today did not quote the President, who was being commemorated. Because the problem for Donald Trump today, in quoting Teddy Roosevelt, is Teddy Roosevelt saying things like 'No man can be a good citizen who is not a good husband and a good father who is not honest in his dealings with other men and women, faithful to his friends, and fearless in the presence of his foes who has not got a sound heart, a sound mind, and a sound body.' Teddy Roosevelt would be horrified by Donald Trump's mode of transportation today. Teddy Roosevelt would have immediately urged the impeachment of a president who solicited a gift from anyone, especially a foreign dictator. And Teddy Roosevelt would have despised the small-mindedness of Donald Trump because it was Teddy Roosevelt who said, 'The screaming vulgarity of the foolish spread-eagle orator who is continually yelling defiance at Europe, praising everything American, good and bad, and resenting the introduction of any reform because it has previously been tried successfully abroad, is offensive and contemptible to the last degree.' 'Offensive and contemptible.' That is exactly what Teddy Roosevelt surely would have said about the 'screaming vulgarity of the foolish, spread-eagled orator' flying on a counterfeit Air Force One today.