A rumor that climate change activist and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore accepted a $90 million custom Gulfstream private jet from the sultan of Kuwait circulated online in May 2025.
One post (archived) from the Facebook page America's Last Line of Defense that shared the claim featured an image of Gore with text that read: "Al Gore thinks it's terrible that Qatar wants to give the United States a luxury jumbo jet. The same Al Gore who accepted a Gulfstream from the Sultan of Kuwait."
The post also added: "Talk about hypocrisy. That Gulfstream is a $90 million plane. It was given to him, not the government. He still has it."
Variations of the rumor spread on X (archived), Facebook (archived) and Threads (archived).
An article from the Dunning-Kruger Times expanded on the claim:
"Al "Do As I Say" Gore allegedly accepted a Gulfstream G550 from none other than the Sultan of Kuwait back in 2011. That's right. The former VP who's been lecturing America for decades about carbon footprints was literally gifted one of the biggest carbon footprints on wheels—with wings.
Some readers seemed to interpret the rumor as fact. However, there was no evidence to support the claim that Al Gore received a jet from Kuwait and no credible news outlets reported on the claim.
The rumor originated with the article by Dunning-Kruger Times and the above-mentioned Facebook post by America's Last Line of Defense. That Facebook group and Dunning-Kruger Times are part of a network of websites and social media pages that describe their output as satirical in nature.
The image in the Facebook post included a "satire" label in the lower right corner. Also, the introduction section on the America's Last Line of Defense page read: "A subsidiary of the America's Last Line of Defense network of trollery. Nothing on this page is real."
Meanwhile, the "About Us" page of the Dunning-Kruger Times website stated, "Everything on this website is fiction." The page also noted that the network specifically targets conservative readers.
The fictional story spread as the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump faced criticism for accepting the gift from Qatar of a plane for use as Air Force One.
Snopes has addressed similar satirical claims from the America's Last Line of Defense network, including rumors that Trump threatened former U.S. President Barack Obama with violating the Hatch Act, that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's brother was arrested and charged for trafficking fentanyl and that Rep. Jasmine Crockett collected her dead grandmother's Social Security checks.
For background, here is why we alert readers to rumors created by sources that call their output humorous or satirical.