NO! NO! NO! Fuck NO!

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

I absolutely refuse to accept that Fat Donnie is going to be allowed to redesign the iconic paint design of Air Force One to satisfy his MAGA-ego! He should be impeached for that reason only!

He's already destroying our institutions (FBI, DOJ, SCOTUS and federal judiciary) for the next three decades, now he wants to stick us with an ugly and unnecessary redesign that resembles his campaign airplane. The current color scheme was established for the Boeing 707 used as Air Force One during the Kennedy years, and was continued when the aircraft was upgraded to the current Boeing 747 by Reagan. All of the VC aircraft used for carrying government officials have the same paint scheme.

The current livery of Air Force One is recognized the world over as the symbol of the United States. His proposed redesign makes it look like an airliner -- maybe a reflection of the failed Trump Shuttle.

What's next? Is he going to redesign the White House and lease it out as a Trump AirBnB? Turn the presidential limousine into an Uber? Add a golden "TRUMP" to the American flag? Is there no one who has the balls to tell this maniac "No!"

He is not the king! Why are so many people treating him like he is?

[Grasswire2]

1. Did you read about his obsession with fabric swatches in his projects?

Reportedly, the small details of his surroundings provide him with endless challenges and tasks. Changing draperies and upholstery has been something he enjoys very much.

This may be more of that obsessive behavior.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

24. Fat Donnie missed his calling. He should have been an interior decorator.

[TruckFump]

27. Should we suggest this re-design to Dotard?

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[SleeplessinSoCal]

2. a little white paint and he'll be undone.

[trusty elf]

3. hair farce one

[kairos12]

17. LOL!!!!

[cwydro]

21. Excellent!

[treestar]

29. ...

[Pachamama]

4. Just like he is doing to our democracy, the Constitution and our Country...

"The replacement is some stacked, red, white and blue design that’s rendered like a 747 sandwich. It looks like the livery of Trump’s personal plane, flipped upside down."

How’s that for a metaphor of America?

[xxqqqzme]

5. One has class and an artistic dignity.

The other one is uninspired.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

15. The current livery was designed while JFK sat on the Oval Office floor.

JFK Redesigns Air Force One

Air Force One looks the way it does because President John F. Kennedy sat on the floor of the Oval Office with an industrial designer, scissors, paper and crayons.
...
The Air Force had designed a red-and-fold color scheme for the plane, a modified long-range Boeing 707.

Raymond Loewy, the world’s preeminent industrial designer, viewed the Air Force One design as hideous. "I was unimpressed by the gaudy red exterior markings and ... the amateurish graphics of Air Force One," he said.

Loewy owned the largest design firm in New York. He had designed Lucky Strike cigarettes, Studebaker cars, Coca-Cola bottle and Electrolux refrigerators. The press called him The Man Who Streamlined America.

First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, with her unerring sense of style, lobbied the president to hire the French-born Loewy.

Loewy met with the president twice. The first time, he and Kennedy sat on the floor of the Oval Office drawing with crayons and cutting up paper to come up with a livery for Air Force One.

Then Loewy visited the National Archives to examine historic documents. He was struck by the first printed copy of the Declaration of Independence; it had the new country's name set widely spaced in capital letters in a typeface known as Caslon.

more

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This is the difference between a person with class and a low rent jerk. JFK deferred to those who knew what they were doing -- a world-class industrial designer -- and someone with impeccable taste -- his wife, Jackie -- before approving the appearance of the most famous airplane in the world.

Here's what Air Force One looked like in 1962:


Here it is after the redesign:


Here's another article about how the most famous designer in the world chose to redesign the airplane for free.

My favorite line from the article:

The replacement is some stacked, red, white and blue design that’s rendered like a 747 sandwich. It looks like the livery of Trump’s personal plane, flipped upside down.

How’s that for a metaphor of America?

[xxqqqzme]

31. slight skew - The picture of the

redesigned plane looks like it was taken in Long Beach.

I wonder

[democratisphere]

6. "Mar-a-lago Air Shuttle" serving the entire drumpf family's

air transportation needs here and abroad.

[Kablooie]

7. He is the only president that was ordained by God.

So there's nothing we can do.

[watoos]

10. Yes, sadly you have nailed the reason why "good people"

vote for Trump.

I just bought a 2nd car yesterday and was finalizing the paperwork. The lady and I were talking about how we can heal our bodies with our mind. She talked about how god had directed her life, about how the things that happened to her in life were because of god's plan. After a very long time of a friendly conversation the subject of jobs came up and she stated, I hope our president can work out a way. I said nothing. She pushed me. She asked me if I disagreed with what Trump was doing? I told her I didn't vote for Trump because I saw a video of him looking at a 10 year old girl and saying that he would be dating her in 10 years. I then asked her what kind of person does that? She honestly was un-phased, I took it to mean that she believed that Trump was president because it was god's plan. I'm telling you, for 30 minutes we had the most pleasant conversation, she constantly spoke about how god was involved in her life. It's these religious people who believe in Predestination who are voting for Trump.

Your short statement was confirmed to me yesterday by a nice young lady. She absolutely believed that Trump was ordained by God, I heard it with my own ears. This was in central Pa.

[bedazzled]

25. what kind of christian calls his daughter a great piece of ass

mocks disabled peope. doesnt pay those who work for him. incites violence?

[TruckFump]

28. And...

...is a traitor to this nation?

The Religious Right is neither.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Per his ghost-writer: tRump is all about choosing drapery & letting his businesses rot.

He depends on a chaotic arrangement of people to run his businesses for him and whoever gets his ear last wins.

While his casinos were going bankrupt, tRump was spending lots of time choosing drapery colors and carpet designs.


PS: that fastcompany.com link is so full of nasty trackers that the whole page comes up completely blank in my browser.

[Kid Berwyn]

22. Trump spent his executive time looking at fabric swatches.

Trump, the billion-dollar loser — I was his ghostwriter and saw it happen

Charles Leerhson
Yahoo.com, May 9, 2019

EXCERPT...

I tend to see my time with him — the first part of it, anyway, before things started going bad in a hurry — as his “King Midas” period. I never said this to him; if I had, he probably would have thought I was suggesting he enter the muffler business. But there was a stretch of months when everything he touched turned into a deal. The banks seemed to accept the version of him depicted in his first book, “The Art of the Deal,” which we now know from his previous ghostwriter, Tony Schwartz, was entirely invented. They believed it over what they saw on his balance sheets or heard coming out of his mouth, and they never said no to his requests for more money. Often they came up with things he could say yes to before he could think of them himself. As a result, a failing real estate developer who had little idea of what he was doing and less interest in doing it once he’d held the all-important press conference wound up owning three New Jersey hotel-casinos, the Plaza Hotel, the Eastern Airlines Shuttle and a 281-foot yacht.

A real go-getter, right? But Trump’s portfolio did not jibe with what I saw each day — which to a surprisingly large extent was him looking at fabric swatches. Indeed, flipping through fabric swatches seemed at times to be his main occupation. Some days he would do it for hours, then take me in what he always called his “French military helicopter” to Atlantic City — where he looked at more fabric swatches or sometimes small samples of wood paneling. It was true that the carpets and drapes at his properties needed to be refreshed frequently, and the seats on the renamed Trump Shuttle required occasional reupholstering. But the main thing about fabric swatches was that they were within his comfort zone — whereas, for example, the management of hotels and airlines clearly wasn’t. One of his aides once told me that every room at the Plaza could be filled at the “rack rate” (list price) every night, and the revenue still wouldn’t cover the monthly payment of the loan he’d taken out to buy the place. In other words, he’d made a ridiculous deal. Neither he nor the banks had done the math beforehand. Or perhaps Trump knew it because someone had told him, but didn’t want to think about it. The one thing he is above-average at is compartmentalization.

Source:

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-the-billiondollar-loser-his-ghostwriter-recalls-the-king-midas-years-090000640.html

[ejbr]

9. Revamping the plane

will cost 3.9 billion f’n dollars?!

[watoos]

11. It takes money

to pay an artist to paint a portrait of Trump on the sides of the plane.

[Glimmer of Hope]

18. No way!

He has probably figured out a way to pocket that $$$.

[underpants]

12. The blue makes him look fat

[samnsara]

13. we will put it back

[csziggy]

14. The big problem is that it will cost a LOT of money to change the colors on the plane

And just as much to change them back.

The only suggestion I have would be to use water soluble paints so all we have to do is a quick run through a plane wash!

Wait - I have one more idea! Do what Trump does best - delay, deflect, and delay some more. Isn't the budget for the next year already set? The House could just refuse to add it to the budget for the following year since to quote Mitch McConnell nothing this visible should be done "until voters elect a new president in November."

[frogmarch]

16. If they let him do that,

he'll soon have his face plastered on money.

How do I hate thee, trump? Let me count the ways.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

19. I imagine he has his eye on one of three new Ford-class aircraft carriers being built.

Let's face it, having "USS Donald J. Trump" on one of the most powerful ships in the world would be just too strong for Fat Donnie to resist.

Of course, he would have the builder downgrade the catapults to steam first. The concept of electromagnetism eludes him.

BTW: Carrier landings! Holy shit!

Now, if there's only some way for him to make money off of it...

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

32. He probably believes steam catapults are coal fired.

[Totally Tunsie]

20. Its truly amazing he's resisted putting TRUMP in gold letters over the WH portico.

I'll bet he's dreamed of it, though.

[Initech]

23. He'll install a merch booth at the National Mall.

[bdamomma]

26. They better stop this SOB

or he will call this USA, "TrumpaStan".

Look he is already changing Independence Day to " A salute to the USA" He hates everything this country stands for, especially its citizens and institutions.

[JustAnotherGen]

30. It's a distraction

He should take note of how Camelot ended.