But think of the money to be made, after his term is up, being able to tune in on this country's secret communications. I'm sure Trump's thinking, why not?
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Besides the obvious corruption, it's a national security issue. I'm not an aircraft designer, but I'm pretty sure there's quite a bit of electronics aboard that craft. Pretty easy to slip in a few listening devices.
To be fair, the trump crew don't observe any real security anyway, so all of the more competent competent competitors likely already know our secrets.
I mean, assuming that trump doesn't just tweet them out, he'd absolutely sell our secrets for some graft.
Or members of his cabinet just accidentally add foreign agents to classified chats...
Not to mention the refit to include all the secure communication equipment Air Force One has. Also ECM, active countermeasures, NBC equipment, refuelling, etc.
And then remove part of it a year later when it transfers to him
Realistically, it would probably cost more to retrofit a plane than to just build it from scratch.
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I'm sure Qatar sees him saying "yeah, then it'll be mine" and are thinking 'nooo, we wanted all the presidents to use it...'
Then you're not up to speed....
January 2029 it transfers to the "trump presidential library" so he can keep using it.
It's not even to "the office" it's a personal gift to trump.
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That was my first though, that airplane is gonna have a direct line to the government of Qatar
The more you think about it, the stupider the idea is.
Besides the obvious security problems, Air Force 1 is to a regular plane what a Formula One racer is to a regular car. Someone else pointed out things like counter-surveillance measures, refueling, etc etc.
It would be twice as expensive to retrofit it.
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Or a shutoff switch.
But, would that be so bad?
People just aren't considering the arguments in favor of accepting it, such as how cool it would be to receive what might be the biggest bribe in the history of bribery.
It likely also has the best always-on one-way communication link to Qatar that money can buy.
There's sadly been much bigger bribes.
Even within his family.
It's certainly the biggest one a president has openly accepted. By, like, 400 million dollars.
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So trump now owes Qatar a 400 billion dollar favor, it's that simple
(For those not getting it, it's a jab at doge mixing up million and billion)
He absolutely DOES owe them 400 billion now.
To quote Kurt Hansen from Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty. "To make billions, you first need to grease the palms of others with millions".
Alternative headline: "Spoiled child throws tantrum when told No."
So....is anyone not thinking that the plane is absolutely chock full of spying devices? I mean sure Trump is too stupid to think of it as anything other than a tribute to his greatness but is there a single sane person there?
No need for spying devices, he's for sale they can just buy the info they need.
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Oh, this jet is going to have more bugs than a rainforest. It will be hilarious and compromising.
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i dont think you need to bug trumps planes, he has a big mouth and will say anything for money.
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Traitors to the Constitution & rule of law applied universally should get only gifts of a short rope and a long drop
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He's losing a lot of support....
One of the joys of living in a red state, is plenty of uninformed people voted for him. A shit ton of them are saying they're not voting again.
But with an actual impartial DNC chair, once we get a candidate (especially if it's a charismatic one who's economically progressive) it's gonna be easy to get them to vote D like with Obama.
But with the dnc's track record, them not voting is the best we can have right now.
Don’t be fooled. They will fall in line again. They will vote for Trump again if they have to. They’ll have to stop [insert boogeyman here].
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That constitution is becoming a real barrier for Trump.
Is it though?
We all know that he can't stand to the slightest bit of criticism. He's a narcissist, that's part of what narcissists are.
Hear me out… what if this is them doing the us a “favor”
Wait.... The plane is transparent? Wow! We should accept that sucker like now and figure out how they did it! LOL.
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One man's beautiful gift is almost everyone else's blatant corruption.
Ah. What a guy. Calling his constituents, who he pledged to protect, "losers"
He's the best. Everyone's saying it. Some say he's the best ever.. And, listen, some of the world's best people have said so. He's awesome.
/S
Was that a decent imitation of that orange moron?
First of all, he is not "losing his mind". You cannot lose what you already lost decades ago.
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Corrupt piece of shit.
Toddler throws a tantrum.
He ain't got no mind to lose.
Let him have the plane. Its probably sabotaged anyway.
Even better, it's a Boeing.
I’d guess it would be less dramatic than that. Probably mics and bugs throughout it so they can get some good data on him.
Maybe we will get lucky and he’ll invite musk and other billionaire backers into the plane for its first official flight, at which point Boeing plane does what it does best coupled with a crippled FAA… one can dream.
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Hope he paid the 10% tarrif on that $400 mil plane being shipped here from another country lol
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