The problem right there is you’ll never know which foot had the spurs!
It spent years rusting away in some desolate New York airfield. It was eventually restored to a flyable condition, and when being flown to someplace in Texas I think for a complete overhaul, the flying rust-bucket had to make an emergency landing along the way.
The choice of a used 757 (with, of course, his named emblazoned all over it) is typical Trump. It’s much, much larger than necessary for a comfortable private jet, and its size and late-70s design makes it a hugely wasteful obsolete gas-guzzler with outrageous operating costs and a blight on the environment. To keep it flying, the orange shitbag has to engage in constant grifting. On top of all that, yes, it has a relatively limited range. In contrast, a genuinely wealthy person like Elon Musk who can afford any plane imaginable is just fine with a fuel-efficient new Gulfstream G650, an elegant business jet which also has twice the range of a 757.
So, where’s he gonna fit his ego on a 650, huh?
I’m just amused at what his choice of 757 says about the insecure orange shitbag’s priorities and judgment skillz. Besides comparisons with reasonable business jets like the Gulfstream, one could also compare it with the 737. By any reasonable metric the 757 is larger than any 737 across all models. Yet Boeing is having a hard time selling the Boeing Business Jet (BBJ and BBJ2) – a modified version of a modernized 737 – because even the largest corporations tend to see it as an embarrassing display of tasteless ostentation. To Trump, tasteless ostentation is a feature, but he has to crank it up another notch, and then plaster his name on it in ten-foot high letters and create an interior design as nauseatingly gaudy as his places of residence.
Of course, a reasonable person who for some reason actually needs an exceptionally large private jet would consider a modern extended-range BBJ, but Trump can’t afford it. So instead he opted for an old 757 that in its last commercial service was operated by a cheap discount Mexican airline that retired it, and was then used for a while by Paul Allen’s enterprises until Allen finally junked it. At which point our orange hero snapped it up, probably for its salvage value (payable in two weeks) heedless of its obsolescence and operating costs, concerned only with how big the letters of his name would be on the fuselage.
P.S.- Correction to my earlier post – when it made an emergency landing in Nashville its destination was a maintenance facility in Lake Charles, Louisiana, not Texas.
This is an interesting wrinkle — Trump may want the perp walk.
If the anonymous sources are accurate, there are two basic reasons:
One, if he tries to minimize spectacle and sneaks in a side door, he’s worried that will make him look weak and cowardly.
Two, if he does the public perp walk, then he will get wall-to-wall coverage in every single media channel.
It makes no sense from a normal person’s perspective, but an absolute narcissist is not a normal person.
I predicted he’d ask for it!
Right. As I said over in the P&E thread, in any incident involving Trump, he has only two possible motivations – to portray himself as the Greatest Winner of All Time™ and bask in glory, or to portray himself as the Persecuted Victim of a Witch Hunt™ and bask in money newly grifted from his hapless adoring rubes.
Greatest Victim of All Time! No one victimizes…errrr gets victim-ed like Trump!
Trump wants to be handcuffed for court appearance
Well, of course. Delay is his SOP, and it’ll take time to find handcuffs that small.
Use Chinese finger cuffs. I’m sorry, CHYNA.
Post of the day.
Back in my high school days, the bus I took to and from school every day went past the airport in St Louis. We would frequently see the Playboy plane (painted all black with the bunny on the tail) parked off to the side. Makes me wonder if Trump’s choice of planes is his attempt to emulate Hef - basically a giant flying party bus.
How much money would you give him for that? At least then he would have finally performed a worthwhile service for a fellow American.
“Why would I protest for a man that left the [Jan. 6 protesters] high and dry?” one user posted in a pro-Trump Telegram group. “Trump did nothing to help them after they stuck [their] neck out for him.”
“Has he called for protests about these poor guys? No. But he’s calling for us to protest about his arrest,” another person wrote. “It doesn’t sit right with me.” Another user agreed: “He’s right. Trump betrayed the J6 patriots. How can anybody still support [him]?”
ETA:
“Don’t expose your back, because Trump does not have yours,” one user on a pro-Trump social media group wrote. “And he never will.”
That shows a grade of thorough consideration and even logical thinking I wouldn’t have expected from one of these folks. But you all know the saying about the stopped clock…
Wow, are pro-trumpers actually finally getting it? Are they at long last pulling the yellow-dyed, Big Mac-scented wool from their eyes?
It’s just one of his weird obsessions. He really thinks there’s virtue simply in being tall.
Then how do you explain his admiration of that garden gnome, Putin?
Fear.
Like mules, they always learn their lessons slow. (Of those who learn.)