Rachel Maddow called out Donald Trump over the reported true cost of his efforts to spruce up the superluxury jumbo jet he’s set to receive from the royal family of Qatar, accusing the president of taking funding from a key nuclear safety program to bankroll the renovations.

Rachel Maddow shares New York Times reporting that Donald Trump has taken nearly a billion dollars from taxpayer money meant for modernizing the U.S. nuclear arsenal, and is instead directing some of those funds to refurbish the Air Force One style plane gifted to him from Qatar,

The Air Force claimed previously the jet would likely cost less than $400 million to renovate, though actual costs appear to be closer to $1 billion.

President Donald Trump warned on Monday that he would order fresh U.S. attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities should Tehran try to restart facilities that the United States bombed last month. Trump issued the threat as he held talks with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at his Turnberry golf resort on the western coast of Scotland.

"We will do it again, if necessary!" US President Donald Trump warned after Iran's foreign minister said three nuclear facilities had been badly damaged in strikes in June. View on euronews

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un dismissed the U.S.'s intent to resume diplomacy on North Korea’s denuclearization, as she urged Washington to accept her country as a nuclear weapons state and find a new approach to restart talks.

North Korea has ​doubled down on expanding its nuclear fleet and continued its criticism of the U.S., although it has refrained from personal attacks on Trump.