Trump Is Getting New AF1 ‘Maxed Out’
Last week, Trump had several New York Times reporters subopneaped because the NYT reported that Trump lied about why he took the old AF1 back home from Istanbul.
Turns out all one needed to do, is take a loser look at the plane. A reporter traveling with the small group of reporters in the presidential motorcade pointed to the Qatari jet’s fuselage and said: “Mr. President, this plane does not have antimissile defense systems on it. Why are you flying it?”
Trump replied, “Well, it has — it has a lot, and you know it has a lot of capability, but as I understand it, in about a month or so, they’re going to send it to have it be maxed out. So they’re going to be sending it, and they’ll have it be maxed out.
”It’ll take about a month,” he said.
It was not clear what specific upgrades Trump was referring to, or whether the time frame he gave of a month until it is ready was realistic. A White House spokesperson did not immediately respond to an email seeking additional clarification of what Trump was referring to by “maxed out” and about the time frame he mentioned.
Nonetheless, it appeared to be an admission from the president that the plane’s security measures are not as extensive as the models that have been designed to be built from the ground up to serve as Air Force One.
So, it's another Trump boast that's more like a total dismissal of reality, and he really can't create an equivalent to AF1 faster than Boeing.
The cost of the free plane has been $400M so far.
Turns out all one needed to do, is take a loser look at the plane. A reporter traveling with the small group of reporters in the presidential motorcade pointed to the Qatari jet’s fuselage and said: “Mr. President, this plane does not have antimissile defense systems on it. Why are you flying it?”
Trump replied, “Well, it has — it has a lot, and you know it has a lot of capability, but as I understand it, in about a month or so, they’re going to send it to have it be maxed out. So they’re going to be sending it, and they’ll have it be maxed out.
”It’ll take about a month,” he said.
It was not clear what specific upgrades Trump was referring to, or whether the time frame he gave of a month until it is ready was realistic. A White House spokesperson did not immediately respond to an email seeking additional clarification of what Trump was referring to by “maxed out” and about the time frame he mentioned.
Nonetheless, it appeared to be an admission from the president that the plane’s security measures are not as extensive as the models that have been designed to be built from the ground up to serve as Air Force One.
So, it's another Trump boast that's more like a total dismissal of reality, and he really can't create an equivalent to AF1 faster than Boeing.
The cost of the free plane has been $400M so far.
