May: Trump plans to restore his Boeing 757 for future rallies

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Just as soon as he can find someone who will extend him some credit.

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Trump plans to restore his 'beautiful' Boeing 757 with Rolls-Royce engines and new paint job for future rallies

Tyler Sonnemaker May 21, 2021, 9:54 PM

• Donald Trump said Friday that he's fixing his private Boeing 757 and will use it for future rallies.

• Trump said the plane will get Rolls-Royce engines and a new paint job.

• The plane, dubbed "Trump Force One," has been sitting broken and unused in upstate New York.

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Former President Donald Trump announced in a press release Friday that he's fixing his private plane ahead of future rallies. ... "Many people have asked about the beautiful Boeing 757 that became so iconic during the Trump rallies," Trump said. "It is now being fully restored and updated and will be put back into service sometime prior to the end of the year."

Trump's Boeing 757, informally nicknamed "Trump Force One," has been parked at Stewart International Airport in New Windsor, New York, unused since President Joe Biden's Inauguration.

CNN previously reported that one of the plane's pricey Rolls Royce RB211 Turbofan engines was broken and had been removed from the plane awaiting repairs, which could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Trump said the plane will soon be brought to a service facility in Louisiana for inspection and repairs, including updated Rolls-Royce engines, as well as a new paint job.

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[MontanaMama]

1. It'll never happen.

My prediction anyway.

[zuul]

9. "Two weeks"

[Hugin]

14. Yeah, not gonna happen...

Annual operating costs:

Pricing
Depending on numerous factors, the average price for a pre-owned BOEING 757-200ER is $20,000,000.00. A $10,000,000.00 loan over 120 months including $41666.67 per month in interest equates to a $501,437.15 per-period payment. Based on 450 annual owner-operated hours and $4.25-per-gallon fuel cost, the BOEING 757-200ER has total variable costs of $3,039,952.50, total fixed costs of $414,150.00, and an annual budget of $3,454,102.50. This breaks down to $7,675.78 per hour."

That's for a 757 generating revenue... Tangerine Idi Amin's is 100% liability.

From: https://www.aircraftcostcalculator.com/AircraftOperatingCosts/382/Boeing+757-200ER

TFG is going to have to sell a lot of red hats.

[drray23]

25. he can pay for it with campaign funds

that's probably his plan. He is restarting his rallies and donations. He thinks this will bring him money and somehow shield him from litigation because he is betting the doj won't want to appear to interfere during elections.

[Hugin]

29. The last part of what you say is my theory as to why the cowpatty has hit the campaign trail.

Real sudden like...

He believes (and maybe partially correctly) that while he's campaigning, he's 'immune' from Federal prosecution. It entirely fits his delay delay delay until the heat blows over MO that he and his lawyers have established over the last 50 years. It gives them an argument, anyway.

On top of that, he's got an entire syndicate... uh, I mean, organization and a few deer-in-the-headlights kids and assorted relatives to throw to the ravening prosecutors in a serial manner to delay things even further.

This is his Hail Mary and it is probably enough to ensure he'll die unindicted without spending a single night in jail.

Nice little justice system we've got set up here.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

32. Given debt and the fact that TFG had to refund a ton of donations, TFG cannot afford this plane

Link to tweet

trump has close to $1 billion of debt either currently due or which will become due soon

Link to tweet

[bullimiami]

15. unless he can get someone else to pay for it.

[Diamond_Dog]

21. That was my first thought, too.

He’s always blabbering about how he’s going to do this or that, and none of it ever happens.

[hlthe2b]

19. Trump Corp's assets will be highly "locked up" in future weeks I'd predict. We'll see.

[ZonkerHarris]

51. He will need that plane to flee the country.

[ChubbyStar]

41. ALL HAT NO TURBINE n/t

[snowybirdie]

2. And he'll be

reinstated as president in August.

[area51]

3. "... will be put back into service sometime prior to the end of the year."

Maybe at the same time he finally releases his "wonderful" healthcare plan?

[gab13by13]

4. If it is fixed up

it won't be his money and he won't own it. It will be like most of his buildings, he will only own the name.

[Siwsan]

5. Maybe he's actually fixing it while he still has some funds to do so

Forgive the lack of documentation, but I did read that if the trump* corporation is charged with crimes, it could suck up every cent he, and possibly even his kids, have left. At least as it relates to trump* company finances. Not sure if Ivanka and her husband have totally separate investments, unrelated to anything trump*.

[marble falls]

6. Who's paying for it?

[multigraincracker]

10. Mexico.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

26. DUzy!!!!!

[Lovie777]

11. shithole's cult. . .

his rallies are nothing but money grabbing and to keep the spirit of hatred, fear, racist and violence alive and well.

Hate tv and radio are on a roll for violence against any opposition.

Some RW newspaper was mailed to my residence. I read a few articles and it was horrible. It's main goal, hate and mistrust the government.

[tanyev]

12. That's why the recurring donation box is automatically pre-checked.

[Botany]

13. "Who's paying for it?" Suckers I doubt that it will be fixed up this is just one more con by ...

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.... Don the Con.

[Takket]

22. these people are the absolute trash of the country, aren't they?

[smirkymonkey]

42. They really are.

It's kind of depressing that there are so many of them.

[Botany]

44. We are the majority .... never forget

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[mahatmakanejeeves]

45. Yeah, but: How To Win The Presidency With 23 Percent Of The Popular Vote

How To Win The Presidency With 23 Percent Of The Popular Vote

November 2, 2016 6:00 AM ET

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Long story short: To win the presidency, you don't have to win the majority of the popular vote. You have to win the majority of electoral votes — that is, 270 of them.* In most states, a candidate wins electoral votes by winning the most voters.

So. Win a state by just one vote, and you win all of its electoral votes (unless you live in Nebraska or Maine, which divvy up their votes a little differently).

This can lead to off-kilter election results — in 2000, for example, Democrat Al Gore won the popular vote by a few hundred thousand votes, but lost the presidency by five electoral votes. So we wondered: Just how few votes would a candidate need to win 270 electoral votes?

We decided to find out. A candidate only needs to win the 11 states with the most electoral votes to hit 270. Assuming only two candidates (a big assumption; see below) and that one candidate won all of those states by just one vote, and then didn't win a single vote in any of the other states (or D.C.), how many votes would that candidate have to win? It depends on how you do the math. Either way, it's far less than half.

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How To Win An Election With 23 Percent Of The Vote

Starting from the smallest-electoral-vote states, a candidate could have won the presidency in 2012 with only around 23 percent of the popular vote.

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The idea here is that a voter in a low-population state like Wyoming counts for a larger share of electoral votes than popular votes.

And if one were to start with the largest states, it would be 27 percent. Here's a look at that math:

How To Win An Election With 27 Percent Of The Vote

The below 11 states, combined, would give a candidate 270 electoral votes — just over 50 percent of that total and, therefore, enough to win the election (given a two-person race). However, they also together made up only around 27 percent of the popular vote in the 2012 election.

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[GoodRaisin]

40. The people he grifts from. nt

[Hassin Bin Sober]

52. Rubes. Lots of rubes.

[MissB]

7. That'll cost a pretty penny

Likely millions. Who is paying?

Maintenance on large planes like that doesn’t come cheap.

[LiberalArkie]

20. Isn't it a business expense?

[Chainfire]

28. It will be a "campaign expense."

[sboatcar]

8. How is the plant getting to louisiana without that engine?

Does he think he can just have it towed or something?

[treestar]

16. I was wondering about that

too! Along with who is going to pay for it. Magats most likely.

[Klaralven]

17. Notice that he is not buying American and using the Pratt & Whitney PW2000 engines

Not very MAGA at all.

[hatrack]

38. But he gets to say "Rolls-Royce" and the MAGAts say "Oooh! Classy & Expensive!"

[malaise]

18. But but but why would he need that old plane

when he's going to be reinstated in a few weeks?

[NCjack]

24. +1. Oh, yeah!

[marmar]

23. Broke ass can't afford to fix the plane.

[Vinca]

27. Well, if this isn't as clear as the nose on your face, I don't know what is.

Totally rehabbed plane for political rallies = campaign expense. Campaign expense = the suckers pay for it via donations. End result = the Con-In-Chief has a new plane for free.

[Chainfire]

30. Here is a new theory to thrust upon the true believers:

Since Trump really "Won" the past Presidential election, he is ineligible to run for a third term.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

36. I can see those glazed expressions now

as the hamsters double-time it on the wheels processing that thought.

[hatrack]

31. Private Plane Infrastructure Week - Your Contributions Accepted!!

[onethatcares]

33. If you haven't been paying attention

A guy, a big burly guy with tears running down his bewhiskered cheeks told him while sobbing, that he would be glad to rebuild the plane with his own funds if he could just unload the massive amount of toilet paper he has stockpiled in his garage.

[Totally Tunsie]

48. "Sir..."

[Ilsa]

34. "Trump Force One" is why women have sued him for assault. nt

[sabbat hunter]

35. He would

have to actually pay for the repairs. He never pays. Just ask Ghouliani. Or contractors that have been left holding the bag.

[llashram]

37. well his suckers

are sending him and his grifting family and 'friends' enough to do this very thing...does anyone here think he is continuing his big lie and by formality, NOT conceding for any other reason?

[Initech]

39. Trump Force One? Excuse me for a minute...

[smirkymonkey]

43. "Trump Force One"

What a narcissistic ass!

You lost fuckwit! Get over it!

[Mopar151]

46. Sale and lease back?

Engines are often leased separate from the plane. Did he ever own the plane/engines outright?

It might be possible to recover a lot of the operating costs by flying charters, but it would require some "adulting" by TFG.

[Mopar151]

47. They'll hang a rented engine on it to get it to Louisiana nt

[Rhiannon12866]

49. Good luck with that!

[ZonkerHarris]

50. Repair shop should get the money up front

[JI7]

53. He will try to make the RNC and other Republican candidates and orgs pay for a new private plane

and all the costs associated with it.

[Wounded Bear]

54. If he fixes it, it will be worth more when the IRS seizes it...