
Technically, if the Qatari plane gets instated as property of Air Force One operations then it belongs to the US and not the president. It would have been better to lean on the fact that Saudi Arabia is a direct sponsor to many groups and nations that the USA lists as adversaries.
TBH, from a political standpoint, if this went through all the regular channels and procedures then I would at least be supportive of dropping the tariffs on SA. It’s nice to have a middle eastern nation still willing to oppose Russia after all of this.