Following a trip to the Middle East region, President Donald Trump was offered a jet from the country of Qatar.

Sources say the US Department of Defense previously accepted the luxury jet and US Representative for Iowa’s Third Congressional District Zach Nunn shares his thoughts on the gifted jet that sources say is valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

“And I think it’s very important here that if we’re going to have a foreign aircraft come into the US inventory, it goes not to the President, but to the Department of Defense. The US Airforce needs to take a look at this, we’ve got to do a counterintelligence threat assessment, and we’ve got to take an assessment on what we would need to harden that aircraft to make it appropriate for the Commander-in-Chief to be able to defend our nation, if that was ever called upon.”    

Nunn voices a concern he has with the current manufacturer of the airplane that the President is using, with the iconic call sign “Air Force One.”

“The aircraft that currently serves as Air Force One has outlived its prime. And candidly, Boeing, the business that’s supposed to get the President his new plane has failed time and time again. This is one of the issues that we’re working on in the Defense Production Act to make sure that defense contractors are holding up their end of the bargain if they’re going to get massive investments.”    

Nunn adds that at the end of the day, whatever aircraft that the President is on becomes “Air Force One” and he assures the public that for a US President to receive a gift from another country is not unprecedented as other Presidents have had those kinds of experiences before.