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Everything Chump Touches is a Disaster
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/09/business/air-force-one-boeing-silicon-valley-nightcap/Air Force One
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Trump didn't love the AF1 color scheme, with its light blue stripe that's been there since the Kennedy administration. He wanted a supposedly more patriotic look, with a red, white and blue palette. In case the state-of-art tech and armada of nuclear-attack-resistant support planes didn't do enough to scream "THIS IS AMERICA."
But it turns out the darker blue Trump requested could potentially overheat the sophisticated electronics system that ensures POTUS can stay in secure communication with officials on the ground.
Boeing gets played by a Conman.
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World would have been a much better place without them.