It would been even funnier if she had announced that she was giving Trump full permission to use it because the Titantic metaphor was so appropriate…
Sure but there, he’s “making a shrewd deal” with China and not at all beholden to them. /s
Just a bit more Schadenfreude in relation to Trump’s ridiculous airplane. He likes it because it looks big and impressive and Trump’s gotta Trump. But to anyone who knows anything about aviation, it’s a laughingstock. It’s obsolete, expensive to maintain, expensive to operate, and compared to modern business jets has relatively limited range and is an astounding fuel-guzzler.
Elon Musk, who could afford any airplane in the world he wanted, owns several Gulfstreams; the one he usually flies is a G650ER which is a reasonable modern bizjet that flies farther and faster than Trump’s ancient relic and with far, far greater fuel efficiency. Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos own similar bizjets, though not Gulfstreams. All of them make Trump’s 757 look like a hulking museum piece, which it is.
What brought all this to mind was Trump’s rust bucket having to make an emergency landing in Billings on the way to his rally in Bozeman, which hugely delayed his arrival and further screwed up the alright benighted rally. And this emergency landing was at least the second one I know of – the first was when the rust bucket was pulled out of mothballs and flown from New York to Louisiana for refurbishment. It almost didn’t make it. Both diversions were caused by “mechnical problems”.
Any bets that the rust bucket isn’t being maintained to appropriate standards due to the known cheapness of the orange-hued owner? I’d love to see the FAA ground it for the safety of the public that lives underneath its flight paths.
Wouldn’t it be better if it just fell out of the sky mid route?
(And somehow miraculously managed to crash in such a way that the innocent crew and journalists aboard survive.)
- German leisure operator Condor (8 active, 1 parked)
- Icelandic full-service carrier Icelandair (2)
- Star Alliance member United Airlines (20 active, 1 parked)
- And Atlanta’s Delta Air Lines (15 active, 1 parked)
That’s a little harsh. A Gulfstream jet is more fuel efficient than a 757, and it’s also a lot smaller. As someone campaigning for president, Trump probably flies with a large staff and a contingent of journalists. While the 757 is a design from the late-'70s/early-'80s, there are still some airlines using them. As Vice President, Kamala Harris usually flies on an Air Force C-32, which is a modified 757.
Mostly much newer ones. 16 of Delta’s 757s are the 757-300 model. A significant majority (not all) of the older 757-200s were delivered in the current century, a big chunk of the fleet delivered in 2006 and 2008. Trump’s was built in 1991 and apparently neither the avionics or anything else was ever updated. It also sat out in New Jersey (or maybe it was some New York airport – I forget) weather for four years where it deteriorated to the point of needing significant refurbishment before it was safe to fly again. No airline would ever treat an airplane that way.
“More fuel efficient” is an understatement. Of course most of that is due to being much smaller, but the G650 is more than big enough for any normal purpose and is considered the Cadillac of bizjets. Of course Trump needed a plane big enough to contain his ego.
From the pics I’ve seen, Trump’s plane has very limited seating capacity and was certainly not designed with “a large staff and contingent of journalists” in mind when it was retrofitted in 2011. At that time Trump had no serious plans to run for anything – he was much more concerned with gold-plating everything on the plane and sewing fake coat of arms on every seat with gold thread.
Anyway, even Air Force One has seating for only 13 journalists. Trump has absolutely no need for an airframe that in airline configurations can seat as many as 200 passengers. It’s all for show and ego gratification, and I’ll enjoy its future emergency landings.
And one which is scrupulously maintained and, much like the VC-25, reflects a justifiable need for the space.
I’m thinking you meant to type already benighted rally but altright benighted rally is a mighty good contender there.
Every once in a while autocorrect does good work! 
trump is really losing it
Man, he really is. Is he at “Howard Hughes at the end” stage, or is that in a couple of weeks?
The whole Trump/Vance campaign is devolving into weird claims that contradict each other. - Many people are saying that’s weird.
Vance has also been banned from IKEA showrooms - many people are saying.
I’m guessing prior to September 10.
Just before early voting starts, I certainly hope.
“And another thing - I’m not mad. Don’t put in the newspaper that I got mad.”
I’m soooo hoping that if/when Vance debates Walz they have a couch on stage for them.
He then said Harris should be “disqualified” from the 2024 election “because the creation of a fake image is ELECTION INTERFERENCE. Anyone who does that will cheat at ANYTHING!”
His Dingy has slipped a cleat.
The level of projection that he engages in is truly breathtaking.
No kidding. Vance was on CNN with Dana Bash saying something like Harris doesn’t have any policy, she just engages in Name-calling.
I almost shit my pants laughing.
Dingy? Dinghy? But, yeah, with that dingbat, I’m going with your spelling.