Amidst May 2025 reports that the nation of Qatar offered U.S. President Donald Trump's administration a luxury jet, a widely shared meme claimed to show former President Bill Clinton had received a similar gift from the Saudis. Per the meme, Clinton received a $17 million helicopter from Saudi Arabia toward the end of his presidential term in 2001 and continues to use it.
The full meme read:
This is the $17 million helicopter the Saudis gave Bill Clinton to use in their airspace.
They gave it to him as a parting gift when he left office. He still uses it to this day.
Not one single Democrat had anything to say.
(Facebook user "America's Last Line Of Defense")
The post's caption read: "They can cry all they want. Trump isn't breaking any rules that haven't always been broken."
As of this writing, the post had received more than 2,000 shares and 800 comments, with some readers interpreting the rumor as a factual recounting of real-life events, and social media posts sharing the claim as though it were real. Other Facebook posts shared the same photo of the helicopter, and numerous Snopes readers asked whether the claim was true.
However, there was no evidence of Clinton ever receiving such a gift from the Saudis. Rather, the rumor about the former president being given the helicopter came from the Facebook page America's Last Line of Defense — an account affiliated with satire news site The Dunning-Kruger Times. The ALLOD page has a history of fabricating stories for shares and comments. As such, we rate this claim as labeled satire.
The meme in question has a "Satire" label on the bottom left. The Facebook page's "Introduction" section says: "The flagship of the ALLOD network of trollery and propaganda for cash. Nothing on this page is real." The Dunning-Kruger Times "About us" page says:
Everything on this website is fiction. It is not a lie and it is not fake news because it is not real. If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined. Any similarities between this site's pure fantasy and actual people, places, and events are purely coincidental and all images should be considered altered and satirical. See above if you're still having an issue with that satire thing.
A Google search showed no news coverage of Clinton ever receiving this gift from Saudi Arabia. However, Clinton has received gifts from foreign leaders. In 1997, then-President Heydar Aliyev of Azerbaijan gave the Clintons a handwoven rug with their faces on it, for example.
A Google reverse-image search found the photograph of the helicopter on the website of San Francisco-based helicopter charter company South Bay Helicopter. Its 2022 Facebook profile picture uses the same image as in the meme.
The rumor spread as the Trump administration confirmed that Qatar offered a Boeing 747, for use by the Department of Defense, that would be used as Air Force One.
We have covered similar satirical articles from ALLOD, including false claims that politicians like Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., were fraudulently collecting their dead grandmothers' social security checks.
For background, here is why we alert readers to rumors created by sources that call their output humorous or satirical.