A bike, pencil painter, £ 300 raw meat: US presidential gifts and the rules for you | Donald Trump

RDonald Trump's administration is preparing to accept a luxury plane from the royal family Katar, as ethics experts say that such a gift would be violated against rules within the constitution that would like to protect against bribing and corruption.

There is a long story of US presidents who accept gifts from foreign powers. The desk of which Trump signed a record number of the executive regulation in 1880 was handed over to the United States by Queen Victoria. The “determination table” was handed over to President Rutherford B Hayes and is made by the oak wood of the British ship HMS Resolute.

Clothing, antiques – and even animals – were introduced to the US president in the past. Most of the time, these gifts are then disposed of by a complicated bureaucratic process that is anchored in the constitution.

During the administration of George W Bush, a puppy that was handed over to the President of the President of Bulgaria was sent directly to the national archives that preserve the government and historical records. The puppy was then placed with a family.

Bush was unable to keep the dog Every “king, prince or foreign state” without the consent of the congress. Trump officers report that the president could keep the luxury plane because he will be transferred to his presidential library at the end of his term. Sources say that they came to this conclusion after finding that the gift was not conditioned for an official action and was therefore not bribing.

According to US law, foreign gifts worth less than 480 US dollars can be kept by federal employees. Everything about this amount is viewed as a gift to the “people of the United States” and must be registered and then disposed of by the gift unit of the White House. Most gifts are transferred to the national archives or the future President President Library, which acts as the archive of the administration of the leader.

As with other presidents, the presidential library of Barack Obama contains thousands of gifts that were given to the former president, including silver cufflinks, Christmas decorations and a double -decker bus pencil.

If a gift takes the special imagination of the president, you can keep it as long as you pay a fair market value for it.

In 2023, the US House Oversight Committee reported 100 points that Trump handed over from foreign nations in his first term after the White House did not record it. This included a lifelong painting by the President of the President of El Salvador and Golf Club of the Japan Prime Minister, who had evaluated a total of more than 250,000 US dollars. A spokesman for Trump said that many of the objects “have been received either before or after the administration”.

The New York Times has reported that the Boeing Jet offer that is currently making headlines would probably be the most expensive gift from a foreign government in US history. It was reported that the president would use the aircraft as a new Air Force until shortly before his second Oval Office Stint. At this point, he could be transferred to his foundation of the presidential library, whereby the prospect can be increased that Trump would use the aircraft even after the end of his presidency.

In an explanation, the Press spokesman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, said: “Every gift from a foreign government is always fully assumed with all applicable laws. President Trump's management is obliged to complete transparency.

Despite the ethical concerns, foreign managers use gifts as an important instrument to strengthen relationships and break the diplomatic ice.

In 1997 President Heydar Aliyev from Azerbaijan Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton with their faces gave a 6 -foot carpet with their faces, which was woven in just a few weeks after the president had accepted an invitation to the White House. Twelve women worked around the clock around the clock in eight hours to produce the carpet, a process that normally takes months.

In 2008, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Bush gave a bike after reporting that the then president could not jog due to a violation of his knee.

Other members of the administration are subject to the same rules for giving and receiving gifts. In 2005, Vice President Dick Cheney's Log of Gifts was twice as high as that of President George W. Bush. This year, Cheney, an enthusiastic hunter, received four weapons, including a worth more than 6,000 US dollars. In turn, Bushs on the opening of the eye in 2005 could have been £ 300 (136 kg) of Rohramm from Argentina- a gift that was probably destroyed by the secret service due to official rules of the White House for Food and Beverage Exal.