Donald Trump has claimed that the “flying palace” he secured from Qatar was truly a present to the USA that he desires to make use of as a brand new Air Pressure One.
I’ve seen a number of reviews that the associated fee to the American taxpayers to retrofit this airplane to be used as Air Pressure One could be as much as or over $1 billion. At a time when Trump is doing all the pieces he can to cut back authorities prices as a result of what he says is waste, abuse and fraud, he sees no downside spending a billion taxpayer {dollars} in order that he can have a shiny new jet.
The Pentagon has accepted the jet, and proper earlier than Trump leaves workplace in 2029, it’s imagined to be donated to Trump’s Presidential Library.
This raises a number of questions in my thoughts:
1. If it should be the brand new Air Pressure One, why would not it then be utilized by the brand new president as a substitute of being donated?
2. What is suitable about giving a airplane to a presidential library?
3. The place contained in the library would it not be placed on show?
4. Would the airplane be completely grounded, by no means to fly once more? In any case, why would the library want to make use of a airplane?
In fact, Trump would by no means suppose to make use of it as his private toy after he left workplace as a result of it was a present to the U.S. and never a private reward to him. Proper?
Brian Marsh
Brainerd
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