The U.S. accepted Qatar’s gift of a Boeing 747 to serve as the new Air Force One, the Pentagon said Wednesday, despite the ethical quandaries and potential constitutional violations it entails.

President Trump has brushed off any concerns about the appearance of accepting the $400 million gift despite objections from Democrats and some Republicans.

Trump argued the gift was not being made to him personally but rather to the Department of Defense. It will later be transferred to Trump’s presidential library when he leaves office.

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    Stolen from Facebook: the story of Danila Krasnov.

    It didn’t come from an intelligence leak. It didn’t require a whistleblower hotline or a congressional subpoena. It came from Facebook.

    Within the past hour., Alnur Mussayev, former head of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee and defector from the rotted Soviet apparatus, logged into Zuckerberg’s platform and launched a guided missile into the global information void.

    The post is titled “The evolution of Trump.” But Mussayev isn’t charting a political career. He’s unrolling a 40-year intelligence legend.

    “Under the leadership of the First Zam. Chairman of the KGB Phillip Bobkov,” Mussayev writes, “a large group of top intelligence and counterintelligence officers prepared and executed the recruitment of Donald Trump and attributed him the pseudonym Krasnov.”

    That’s not a theory. That’s an allegation of historic espionage, posted publicly, by name, by a man who once sat at the apex of a post-Soviet security empire. He isn’t whispering. He isn’t hinting. He’s dictating a classified history in real time.

    And then it gets weirder.

    “In those years, KGB employees controlling Trump’s operational activities affectionately called him Danila Krasnov among themselves.”

    Danila Krasnov.

    Not “Donald.” Not “The Donald.”

    Danila. Like a Soviet fairytale woodcutter who stumbled into a golden elevator and decided to stay.

    According to Mussayev, Trump wasn’t some reluctant pawn. He was an enthusiastic asset. A narcissistic goldmine. He shared freely. He circulated among America’s elite like a tacky chandelier at a state dinner.

    After the collapse of the USSR, the real Trump—Danila—emerged. Not the suave operative, but the bloated, bottom-shelf version: greedy, crude, addicted to wealth and spectacle. Mussayev writes that the FSB had to prop him up with “complex operational combinations” and “huge financial costs” just to keep him useful.

    Imagine the Kremlin accountants trying to justify line items for hush payments and golf cart motorcades. Imagine Putin’s intelligence chiefs arguing over whether reality TV ratings counted as “influence metrics.” That’s the kind of spy story we’re living in now.

    And still—it wasn’t enough to cut him loose.

    “Today, Danila Krasnov is the main strategic resource of the FSB and Putin personally,” Mussayev claims.

    Strategic resource. Not former asset. Not relic. Active asset. Living monument. Ongoing investment.And then Mussayev drops the part that sounds like prophecy—or maybe satire, or maybe both:

    “In 50 years, Trump-Krasnov will definitely be the national hero of the Russian people. More revered than Stirlitz or even Alexander Nevsky.”

    Let’s decode that. Stirlitz is a Soviet spy hero—fictional. Nevsky is a Russian prince and saint—medieval. Mussayev is saying Trump will outshine them both. Not in America. In Russia.

    They’ll build statues to the man who spray-tanned through four bankruptcies.

    They’ll teach schoolchildren about his sacred mission to destabilize NATO and yell at dishwashers.

    Maybe they’ll mount his red hat in a glass case next to Lenin’s brain.

    This is either brilliant performance art—or Mussayev is telling the most terrifying truth of our time.

    Let’s be very clear: this is not a meme. This is not satire. This is not a rogue account or parody profile.

    This is Alnur Mussayev, using his real name and real reputation, publishing an allegation that should have led CNN to break into regular programming and drag every intelligence expert they could find onto live air.

    Instead? Crickets.

    The newsrooms that fed on the Steele dossier, that gasped over Trump’s phone calls with Zelensky, that foamed over Comey memos and ketchup tantrums? Nowhere. Still checking if “Danila” meets their editorial style guide.

    Let’s face it: if Mussayev had posted a blurry UFO photo, they’d have ten op-eds by now. But say “Trump was a Soviet asset named Krasnov, managed by Bobkov himself” and they blink like deer at a drone strike.

    In earlier reports, Mussayev’s allegations were dismissed or buried. Snopes released a half-baked fact-check that quoted anonymous blogs and Russian-language sites with ties to Kremlin-friendly pundits. France 24 used their “True or Fake” segment to slap a red X over Mussayev’s face and moved on without investigating the meat of his claim.

    Now? They don’t get to ignore it.

    Because today, Mussayev added structure, history, names, operations, and a codename that reads like a death sentence for anyone who still believes this was ever just about money or ego.

    This isn’t about kompromat.

    This is about legacy, strategy, and long-term asset cultivation.

    And it’s about the fact that a man accused of being a 40-year Russian informant is currently President of the United States.

    If Mussayev is lying, he’s playing the most dangerous game imaginable.

    But if he’s telling the truth?

    Then we’re not just living in a post-truth world.

    We’re living inside the most successful intelligence operation in modern history—one built on vanity, greed, and the unkillable myth of Danila Krasnov.

    And no one on TV has the spine to say it out loud.

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      Same place they’re getting the first one, Boeing.

      This thing will never be airforce one. It will take years to retrofit it to the same standard as the current planes. By the time they do, Boeing will have finished the replacements they’re already working on.

      But after Trump’s term finishes, it’ll go to his “library foundation”, meaning he’ll own it. This is just Trump scamming himself a free private jet.