The tiny Gulf state has showered money on the U.S.’s military and universities, giving it outsize geopolitical clout.

Democrats are planning to fly a banner that reads “Qatar-a-lago” over President Trump’s Florida estate Wednesday after he said he would accept a $400 million jet from the Qatari government.

House Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday urged Republicans to schedule a vote if President Donald Trump accepts a free Air Force One replacement from Qatar. Watch the full news conference held by House Democrats Wednesday in our video player above.

President Donald Trump would plainly like America to be more like the Gulf states he’s touring on the first big foreign trip of his new term.

The president announced that Qatar, a major non-NATO ally to the U.S., offered the luxury plane—known as "a flying palace"—to the Department of Defense (DOD). Trump says the aircraft is worth $400 million and the assertion has prompted fierce bipartisan pushback.

Republicans and Democrats in Congress raised both and ethical concerns about the White House’s plan to use a gifted luxury plane from Qatar as an Air Force One replacement, after President ...