Donald Trump HAS received a new airplane….
A Boeing 747 Luxury Airliner….
Donald being Donald has converted the Boeing Jet into ‘HIS” version of what the official American President’s airline should be….
Different paint job…..
More luxurious …..
And delivered in record time…..
It is due to carry President Trump as of July 4, 2026….
Now I’ve got to admit something…
Donald HAS a point….
The two ‘New’ Air Force one Boeing Jets that are being converted from a Russia airline return has taken YEARS….
The American system of supplying a President with an airplane is ridiculous …
YEARS of prep …..
Instals of stuff that ARE NEVER gonna be needed…..
Security protocols that just add money and time to process….
Donald HAS a new plane….
It has Gold like he lives for….
He’ll fly in for about a year and half and then someone IS gonna have to decide what to do with the plane…
Is it gonna be the US Air Force?
Or Donald’s?
Qatar “was so nice,” Trump told Air Force service members and other senior officials after touring the jet. “We were at a little bit of a log jam.”
“I asked the emir if we could use the brand new 747,” he said. “I said, ‘We’d like to use it for a little while, because the planes are pretty old, our planes are old.’ See, a normal president wouldn’t do this.”
Information on the jet’s arrival was closely held. The only tip that a transition was near occurred earlier this week when a senior White House official tweeted a goodbye and thank you to the older, light-blue and white Air Force One.
On Friday, Trump visited Andrews, for an event that was billed as remarks to Air Force service members, to get a private tour of the gifted aircraft, which Qatar offered shortly after Trump’s second term began. The aircraft was inside a closed hangar on base. A podium was set up near a banner that said “doing what they said can’t be done,” underneath the presidential seal on the new plane’s fuselage…..
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“This plane was transformed into a flying White House at a level of luxury that nobody’s ever seen before, probably even almost outside of an airplane,” Trump said. “Nobody’s ever seen anything like this, and in only 10 months, a time frame no one thought possible.”
Trump has described himself as being conscious of other leaders’ jets at airports when they have gathered for summits, and he had derided the current generation of 747s as puny in comparison to newer head-of-state conveyances.
“Everything was designed good. It was my taste, I will say,” Trump said. “This is representative of our country. Now, when we land in airports in London and in Germany and different places, nobody tops this one.”
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The gift of a luxury jet from a foreign government has little precedent in U.S. history. The nation’s founders were concerned about a president’s decisions being swayed by gifts “from any King, Prince, or foreign State,” and drafted the Constitution to ban taking presents without permission from Congress.
Trump has said that the gift was made to the nation, not to him personally, but he has also said the jet would be part of his presidential library following his presidency….
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The Qatari plane is a “bridge” to satisfy Trump, who has grown frustrated with production delays and cost growth as Boeing has worked to retrofit two other 747s to serve as the new Air Force One. The Air Force awarded the contract to purchase two 747s for Boeing to retrofit in 2017, during Trump’s first term in office.
The schedule for retrofitting those planes has slipped to the point that they may not be ready before the end of Trump’s second term. Instead, the Pentagon accepted the Qatari jet and worked to get it ready for this summer at a cheaper price tag.
In May, when Pentagon officials told lawmakers that the total cost to overhaul the plane had not exceeded $400 million, lawmakers questioned why the cost to overhaul the two other jets was so much more — and whether that meant the new plane would not be as capable as the planned future aircraft. The Government Accountability Office has estimated that the costs to get the two other 747s operational now exceed $5.6 billion…..
image…President Donald Trump on Friday exits the plane that will soon serve as Air Force One….Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP
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