It’ll be cheap trust him. This guy does good work.

are not sure it could be rendered 100% safe from invasive spying tech...

... because the security is managed by Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth. I'm sure they'll declare it "secure enough for government purposes"

And there would have to be a lot of money spent to render this "fit for use".

When Trump leaves office, the flying brothel is to be to be transferred to the Trump library for his personal use.

There is no doubt this is a personal gift to Trump and, therefore, a violation of the Emoluments Clause.

We don't do palaces. If Trump wants to take this golden turkey, he's free to personally accept the bribe and pay for all its upkeep and consequences himself. But the USA does not need or want this flying POS. No way.

Use it as is after he leaves office.

paint job? You know . . . Red/white/blue, Old Glory and a couple of eagles.

Trump wanted it painted up like his personal 757 heap, rather than the colors and patterns of the current AF1. Did the DOGEbags cancel that, too?

goes about being washed, but for some reason this seems it might be in that kind of category.

Do I get any points for that?

Musk can hand out the chemicals in the flight deck and cabin.

I can see a great movie made of this final flight....

Trump's claimed justification for wanting this jet is that it's taking too long for Boeing to convert the two 747s into VC-25Bs. This is understandable: not only are they having trouble getting enough people cleared to Yankee White so they can do the work. the work essentially involves stripping the jets down to the frame and completely rebuilding them. It would have been ultimately cheaper to do new-build and let Boeing convert the Transaero planes into freighters - which is what the last few 747s made were.

It's going to take even longer to convert the Qatari Bribe into a usable executive transport than it is to convert the Transaero planes because this one's gaudier.

Another huge issue: The Air Force unit responsible for presidential transport has at least two examples of every type in their fleet. By accepting this aircraft and using it as Air Force One, they'll only have one 747. That won't work.

Like buying outrageously over-priced properties from his 'company', or doing a brown paper-bag exchange at one of his golf courses.
If it works, don't fix it!

Trump has already shown that he considers secure electronic equipment unnecessary. Think of how much money we’ll save by not installing it

If you look at it with the business savvy* of Trump, we’re actually making hundreds of millions of dollars off this deal!
(Do I really need to include the ?)

*

golden decor?

Plane has been available on an unprotected runway for a long time for various groups to plant spyware and tracking devices. This plane may have to stripped down to the frame to check for extra hardware/spyware. It will NOT be cheap to get this plane to be ready to be Air Force One.

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