# Is Trump confused? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [January 24, 2024, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589 "2024-01-24T13:53:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3665
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2025, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/3665 "2025-02-01T22:02:41Z")
> [@chappachula](#): > > The army has to use huge amounts of gas rounding up all those illegals, and driving them to the airport. But that’s just the first step [sarcasm acknowledged]. I was watching a video where it was pointed out that using military planes to fly immigrants out of the country and to, say, Colombia, is vastly more expensive than chartering a commercial plane. IIRC, besides all the other costs involved, the C-17 burns fuel 6x faster than a commercial jet like a 737 (I believe that was the comparison). [Trump’s Reliance on Military Planes for Deportations Is Costing Taxpayers](https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-reliance-military-planes-deportations-costing-taxpayers-2023882) > New figures show that the recent deportation flights from the U.S. to Colombia and Guatemala have far exceeded the price of a chartered or even first-class seat on a commercial flight, making the Trump administration’s approach to returning illegal immigrants more than eight times more expensive than previous administrations’ efforts. > … > In the first week of [Trump](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/donald-trump)’s second term, the [Department of Homeland Security](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/department-of-homeland-security) reported deporting about 7,300 people of various nationalities. > > To carry out some of these deportations, the U.S. has deployed C-17 Globemaster III transport planes, which cost an estimated $28,500 per flight hour, a senior U.S. defense official told _Newsweek_. > … > The four deportation flights to Guatemala came at a steep cost. The Guatemalan government confirmed that a C-17 military transport plane landed on Monday with 64 deportees on board. > > Accounting for the per-hour operating cost, those expenses reached around $4,675 per person—far exceeding the roughly $850 price of a first-class commercial ticket from El Paso to Guatemala City. > > In contrast, deportation flights operated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which use Boeing 737 and McDonnell Douglas MD-80 aircraft, cost about $630 per deported. If Trump wants to deport millions of undocumented immigrants using military planes like the C-17, that’s a lot of expensive jet fuel. I don’t know much about the different fuel type processing. Is aviation fuel refined from a different type of crude than the gas for cars? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589)._