Courtney foils Trump's red, white, blue Air Force 1 plan Amendment won't allow gold-plated interior

[kpete]

Washington — Rep. Joe Courtney on Wednesday threw a big wrench into President Donald Trump’s plans to paint the iconic Air Force One jets red, white and blue.

During a marathon hearing of the House Armed Services Committee on a bill that will authorize Pentagon spending for 2020, Courtney, D-2nd District, introduced an amendment that restricts spending on any changes made to the white and sky-blue Boeing airplanes that have served as presidential transport since the early 1960s.

Courtney’s amendment, adopted by committee members on a 31-26 party line vote, would require congressional approval for excessive spending on “interior, paint and fixtures.”



More:

https://ctmirror.org/2019/06/12/courtney-foils-trumps-red-white-blue-air-force-one-plan/

[Vinca]

1. It's bad enough Trump gets to fly on our plane. He needs to keep his tiny hands off JFK's colors.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. On FOX & Friends, Trump compared Melania to Jackie Kennedy.....

Talk about disgusting. Maybe when it comes to expensive designer clothes. But Melania will never be a Jackie Kennedy-Onasis or Michelle Obama for that matter.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Jackie O never posed for naked photographs or married for money.

You can't buy class.

[RussellCattle]

11. Wow, I love Camelot and all that, but the "O" in "Jackie O" is for Onassis....

....a Greek multimillionaire shipping magnate and when she married him it was generally understood to be "for the money".

[demigoddess]

16. she did it for the privacy and protection of her and the children.

[lunatica]

28. She did it to protect her children

When Robert Kennedy was killed she felt people were going after the Kennedys to kill them. She knew Onassis would protect them.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

40. She didn't need the money.

The press speculated that Jackie was interested in Onassis only for his money. But those who witnessed the relationship up close could see why the then-39-year-old Jackie was longing for a partner. Her personal assistant at the time, Kathy McKeon, remembers Jackie frequently asking for her help with odd jobs in the evening hours.

“She always used to have company all the time, and all the sudden it got very quiet,” McKeon said in an interview. “She was by herself at night, and I think she was very lonely. She needed somebody to talk to.”

And she was thinking of her children.

“A lot of people said, ‘Oh, my God, what did she marry that guy for? But he was a good father to John and Caroline,” McKeon remembered. “He would sit with them at the dining room table and ask how was school. He might have been an older man, but he paid attention to them, and they loved him.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/10/20/how-could-you-day-jackie-kennedy-became-jackie-onassis/?utm_term=.d7636ca2c57d

[flying_wahini]

54. I beg to differ. She already had lots of money when she married him

He offered her protection from the prying eyes and apparently a really fun guy.

[iluvtennis]

18. +++++++++++++++ agree

[kimbutgar]

37. Or worked as a high class escort

[Vinca]

6. Imagine Jackie in a jacket that said "I really don't care, do you?"

Jackie was elegant. Melania is a prop.

[iluvtennis]

19. And Melanie (sic) is a fake prop at that.

[keithbvadu2]

8. Comparison

[redstatebluegirl]

15. Then there is the one where she is hugging an airplane.

[FakeNoose]

27. You forgot Hillary?

But maybe she never posed for a photo in a red dress.

I do get your point though - there's no comparison of the current "first lady" with ANY former one.

[malaise]

32. Howling with laughter

[SMC22307]

38. You sharing that far and wide on social media?

I love when the True Believers melt down.

[maddiemom]

45. Aha! Only Michelle is wearing a SLEEVELESS dress.

[Me.]

29. Expensive Designer Clothes?

Jackie had style, Melania has cash

Jackie Style

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/trends/g1370/jackie-kennedy-onassis-style-0111/?slide=19

[TruckFump]

39. Wow, just mega wow!!!

[link:?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&resize=980 |



Beautiful, elegant, stylish, classy...Jackie....

[Me.]

43. ...

[dflprincess]

41. And let us not forget Jackie's work in restoring the White House

as well as her work with historic preservation in NYC, especially Grand Central Station.

Thankfully, there's very little that can be done to the public rooms at the WH but we can only imagine how the Trumps have trashed the family quarters. I imagine Jackie is turning in her grave.

[Me.]

44. There Is Also The Temple Of Dendur

“But Dendur’s story gets especially dramatic in the late 1950s, when Egypt began preparations for the new Aswan High Dam off the Nile. Although the proposal would provide irrigation and hydroelectric power to Egypt’s growing population, it would also drown several ancient structures built along the river’s banks—Dendur among them. With the Egyptian government lacking resources to pay for the relocation of the ancient structures, UNESCO launched a fundraising campaign, and the U.S stepped up to the plate. According to some sources, it was Jacqueline Kennedy who urged JFK to convince Congress to approve the $10 million contribution to the cause. In return, Egypt offered the U.S. the Temple of Dendur.

Johnson’s administration inherited the task of deciding which institution would receive the temple. As a November 1968 New York Magazine story recalled, “Philadelphia was interested in it, Baltimore, Phoenix, Albuquerque, Memphis. There was a real estate operator in Florida; Southern Illinois University was thinking of putting the temple in the Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome after Expo was over; and a group of towns in Southern Illinois with names like Cairo (the ‘little Egypt of Illinois’) found in the coincidence of nomenclature sufficient reason for wanting the temple.”

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-2-000-year-old-egyptian-temple-ended-manhattan

Many wanted it but the Metropolitan Museum in NY got it and built a special annex to the museum to house it in a fitting manner.

[dflprincess]

46. I had never heard this and I don't know how i've missed it.

It is now on my list the next time I'm in New York.

[Me.]

50. It Is A Wonderful & Masterful Part Of THe Egyptian Collection

[smirkymonkey]

57. I will be forever grateful to her for saving and preserving Grand Central Station.

I love that building, especially the interior. I think it's beautiful. There is something about old train stations that just captivates me. I can't explain it, maybe it has something to do with being brought back to a time when train travel was in its heyday.

And what has Melania done for the nation? Be Best.

[SergeStorms]

42. You don't remember...

Jackie's "be best" campaign? No, neither do I. She was far too intelligent to come up with a classless, meaningless campaign such as that.

[Pachamama]

49. She didn't have to name it "Be Best" or anything else for that matter

She just was best and let her actions speak volumes.

[SergeStorms]

62. While Malaria...

needs a brass pole and a bunch of dollar bills stuffed in her crotch to be her best.

[smb]

47. We've Gone From Jackie to Tacky nt

[deurbano]

53. Perfect!

[maddiemom]

9. If you count the trim and lettering,it already IS red white and blue, just very tasteful on the red.

[bitterross]

10. That's the problem - it's tasteful and elegant.

Trump is all about gaudy displays.

[trueblue2007]

22. LET TRUMPIE BOY fly on this plane .....

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[empedocles]

2. .

[Historic NY]

5. I don't think the Air Force is going to approve...

the color change light color is easier to see inflight, reduces heat absorption. Dark color tends to fade quicker and is hard to see a night. Its also difficult with areas that tend to have lots of birds. It confuses them. This new plane isn't like the older ones it has a bigger wing span and much more composite materials.

[Wounded Bear]

13. In other words, more like Trump One...

[Historic NY]

23. Like his cheap ass used airliner.....

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[Historic NY]

24. Or his other piece of crap

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[SeattleVet]

48. His 'choice' is essentially the same color scheme, inverted.

Dark blue on the bottom, a red stripe, then the white at the top.

Makes it look like a cut-rate airliner. His 'new' schemes are very similar to the old US Airways scheme before they were bought out:

https://airlinersgallery.smugmug.com/Airlines-USA6/Us-airways/i-CzfK8qj/A



“I like the concept of red, white and blue,” Mr. Trump said on Friday. “The baby blue” of the Kennedy era, he said, “doesn’t fit with us.”

(Yeah, I can agree that it certainly doesn't fit with you at all - it's tasteful, historic, and iconic.)

[emmaverybo]

51. It doesn't need to fit with them. He and gold-digger won't be flying in it much longer.

[smirkymonkey]

58. Winner!

[VMA131Marine]

56. US Airways bought American Airlines

and then retained the American Airlines name for the combined company.

[gordianot]

7. I was thinking Trump might have a golden calf installed.

Maybe mirrors on the ceiling and a few slot machines.

[RussellCattle]

12. Ka-ching! You wins.

[keithbvadu2]

34. Just outside his room with the golden toilet.

[TheBlackAdder]

14. Trump probably wanted it White, Blue & Red.

[keithbvadu2]

35. Loyal Trumpster proudly holding Trump Russian flag

Another name on the Russian flag...
Loyal Trumpster proudly holding Trump Russian flag
.

[keithbvadu2]

36. Probably photoshopped - Probably

[Hermit-The-Prog]

59. the flags were real

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/liberal-activists-prank-had-some-cpac-waving-russian-trump-flags-n725496

[keithbvadu2]

61. Yep! I meant only the lapel pin but should have been more specific.

[demigoddess]

17. there is a reason planes are painted certain colors. Harder to spot them and

shoot them down.

[thegoose]

20. Fascist asshole

Wrapping his giant orange ass in the flag. What a fuckstick.

[JohnnyRingo]

21. Can he keep the stripper pole?

He has an image to keep you know.

[defacto7]

25. Oh, let him paint the outside.

(shall I say... sitting duck)

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

26. Gold interior?

Maybe he wants to impress Putin.

[hedda_foil]

30. This kind of thing seems typical of Trump. He got obsessed with upholstery fabrics while going bust

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/trump-ghostwriter-interview-taxes-loss-13832896.php

In an exclusive story Thursday for Yahoo News, Charles Leerhsen told about his two years of shadowing Trump while writing "Surviving at the Top" in 1988-90.

That was about midway through the 1985-1994 span during which, according to the New York Times, Trump racked up losses over $1 billion, more than any single taxpayer in U.S. history.

Along with "The Art of the Deal," ghostwritten by Tony Schwartz, "Surviving at the Top," helped cement the image of Trump, the savvy businessman.

<snip>

—Trump often seemed unengaged by the day-to-day business dealings of his hotels and airline. What did excite him, Leershen writes, were fabric swatches, which he would choose for his hotels' upholstery needs. "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."

[FBaggins]

31. Two issues with the title

If the Senate doesn't include the same language (and the president sign it of course)... then nobody "foiled" anyone.

More importantly... language like this is pretty regularly ruled unconstitutional. Congress can't appropriate funds and then say "but you have to come back to us for approval before you spend it".

They do it all the time... but presidents can (and do) ignore it.

[FuzzyRabbit]

33. The current Air Force One color scheme was

designed by Raymond Loewy, one of Americas greatest industrial designers. It is a classic, and still holds up. It does not look dated even though it is over a half century old.

Other things Loewy designed: https://www.google.com/search?q=raymond+loewy+designs&client=firefox-b-1-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiLndny3OniAhWSIzQIHYYgBjsQ_AUIECgB&biw=1114&bih=604

[Aristus]

52. Trump's Presidential policy seems to be "If it ain't broke, break it."

[Pepsidog]

55. Wow congressional oversight in action. Watch the dictator ignore the law.

[smirkymonkey]

60. Why does he spend so much time on petty little details when there

are so many more important things going on. What a stupid, useless human being.