New Delhi, July 2 -- The airplane that carried Donald Trump to North Dakota on Tuesday is a gift from a foreign government now simultaneously brokering America's most sensitive diplomatic negotiation.

retrofitted by the U.S. Air Force over the past nine months and now designated Air Force One - for its inaugural presidential flight to Medora, where he attended the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. The flight marked the first operational use of a plane whose $400 million value and unconditional transfer from the Qatari royal family had drawn a formal Senate resolution and renewed scrutiny over a constitutional clause the framers inserted specifically to prevent foreign influence over American officials.

Qatar, which...