Trump is even bad at being bribed... 🙄
Right? Being gifted a plane is kind of a financial nightmare.
Its like "winning" a boat or car. Great, you have this thing you couldn't afford. Now pay the taxes on it, that you can't afford.
But also, we all know Trump doesn't pay taxes.
Reminds me of the time Oprah screwed her audience over with a free car
https://www.jalopnik.com/that-time-oprah-gave-276-people-free-cars-that-actually-1838106001/
What kind of country taxes prizes? Seems a bit ridiculous if you ask me.
Prizes are income, otherwise companiea would hold a raffle each month to determine your salary.
Or, and this ja a wild one, or the law could give a devinition of "price" that doesn't open it up for abuse while not taking from people who won something.
Good ol USA, at a high rate.
This is the same energy as people who buy their SO a vehicle without any input. Enjoy the new car payments babe.
Not when taxpayers are paying for all the expenses.
not even asking for new items, is also Used and expensive. even his older jets/planes he has is very old.
It's the modem day white elephant. Lol
I had to do a double take. I thought your comment might have had an issue with keming…
Wait a minute... What's modem
As long as it's Hayes compatible.
Trump is like a little baby who wants something he knows he shouldn't have. Waaa. I want palace. If he thought he was leaving it 4 years he wouldn't accept.
Why don't they give it to him after his term is up. See if he goes for that. Promise you he wouldn't go for that deal. :). Wonder why.
At least it exposes his selfishness and greeed which is obscene that people need to have this demonstrated given the man clearly has some serious personality issues.
Tell him that retrofitting it to AirForceOne security standards would "ruin the beautiful golden interior" so it will be better to just wait until he's a private citizen again and won't have to follow those stupid security rules. Meanwhile, as President, he'll have to keep using the "little" presidential aircraft.
He might be tempted into quitting early, or at least not extending his reign. Or he'll insist on using the unsecured plane, and maybe something catastrophic will happen over the Pacific.
He will take it with him if he leaves office.
He will XO a charity gift to the newly found "Trumps School For Governments That Can't Democracy Good", and use it to fly around and give intimate talks at lavish dinners (not keynote speeches. Just be at a table)
It'd be funny if the US decides to accept the plane and then Boeing spends the next 4 years retrofitting it with all the military communications and air defense features that the typical Air Force One carries. Then if Trump leaves office, because of military secrets, they spend the next 4 years stripping it back down to civilian level and he dies before ever getting to use it.
As a US taxpayer, I don't find that very amusing. Well, other than the part where Trump dies.
Ooh, say that last part again.
It would make more sense to equip it up if they planned on keeping it as Air Force One after Trump leaves office, but they have already said they plan on keeping it with the Trump Presidential Library.. so the U.S. gov will spend all this money on a secure aircraft for a few months before it's decommissioned.. but he's just a CHAMPION of cutting wasteful spending. /s
don't stop, I'm almost there!
A modern-day white elephant! Kind of hilarious that Trump of all people got it.
My in-laws used to do this.
I love them, but every time they bought something new, they'd give us the old one like it wasn't something they were getting rid of. Easier to give it to us than throw it away.
The last time was a sofa and a love seat. We were stuck with the most uncomfortable furniture I've ever had in my life.
I've started telling people to not give me their garbage.
I've made a lot of people upset, but also I don't have to dispose of other people's garbage, so as far as I'm concerned that's a win.
Tell them to deliver it, and send them the address of the county landfill.
they just show up at my house, unannounced, usually while I'm not there, and my roommates tell me "here's a gift from ms derpinshnek", and I have to say "tell her to take it back."
The last time was a sofa and a love seat. We were stuck with the most uncomfortable furniture I've ever had in my life.
Oh no. They realy gave you an uncomfortable sofa? Bummer. At least you got a nice love seat out of it.
they gave away a used love seat?
They needed room for a love swing.
🤞 there are mechanical difficulties with it
We need everybody to tell good old Donnie that he was "gifted" a plane that's the equivalent to the rusty old piece of s*** car that's been sitting in the yard for 5 years and hasn't sold.
Like all those unsold Cybertrucks.
Wow so it's not even a NEW plane but shitty high maintenance sloppy seconds.
The mandarin chief really does have a type...
Mandarin chief... I'm fucking dying, haha
On a scale from the Watergate hotel room to an American embassy in Moscow, how bugged do you think it is?
Hamas pager
I guess he finally realized that a 747 really is bigger and faster that his 757.
Critics, however, fear that the acceptance would be unethical and even unconstitutional.
Newsweek could retain at least a shred of journalistic integrity by changing one word there:
Critics, however, ~~fear~~ note that the acceptance would be unethical and even unconstitutional.
Damn sure wouldn't waste a new one on him
Even that would probably be a net positive. But this is so much smarter and funnier
So you're telling me there's a slight chance of a RUD mid-flight?
I would settle for a snafu that ends in an unscheduled remote water landing
I’ll take a flat spin due to poor placement of a solid gold toilet with a heavy McDonald’s shit dropped in it
lol, the thing is a cheap old crusty mooncake :D
LOL get fucked pedo
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