TFG's plane diverted to Billings instead of Bozeman

[deminks]

Link to tweet

DEVELOPING: Sources tell me former President Donald Trump’s flight into Bozeman has been delayed. Currently there is no ETA on when he will be arriving.

Sources say the former president’s flight was diverted to the Billings-Logan International Airport, and that it’s unlikely he will be flying into the Bozeman airport at this time. The president’s motorcade is no longer here at the airport.

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[gay texan]

1. Medical? N/t

[LearnedHand]

5. Would it be weird of me to say "we can hope"?

[Permanut]

55. Yes it would..

and I'm right there with you.

[LearnedHand]

56. 😂

[Bernardo de La Paz]

62. Laura Loomer is right on it. /sarc . . . . nt

[dem4decades]

2. 2-hour car ride, hope he has a good time.

[getagrip_already]

3. His arena was too big and they couldnt fill it....

Advance team was panicing and they waved him off.

Better to not show up than speak to a half empty building, especially when kamala and tim are booking a place over twice as large and turning people away.

Many people are saying.

[wnylib]

4. Interesting. Wonder if it could be a medical or mechanical emergency.

[LizBeth]

6. Geeez he has to stay alive thru the election so he can be beat

[ZZenith]

37. Who they gonna throw up there if he's out?

[Traildogbob]

7. Is he making a run for it?

Pootie got a motorcade all ready?

[livetohike]

7. Panic attack? He found out there were 10 people in line

waiting to get in?

[Cartoonist]

19. He found out they were trying to leave.

[livetohike]

40. ROFL

[DFab420]

9. That's a TWO HOUR car ride. Something is off. Odd it's yet to be reported on any major outlet but this should be news

An unscheduled diversion of a flight with the ex-President should be news.

[Think. Again.]

33. What's the "odd" part? For-profit media constantly slants to favor him.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

10. I just checked current weather conditions at the Bozeman Yellowstone Int'l airport.

It is sunny and in the 70s, light wind.

[global1]

11. Does He Have A Contingent Of Press With Him On This Trip?......

If so - any explanation from them as to what the problem is?

[hlthe2b]

12. Some storms out west... at least in Colorado... I wondered about that when someone posted his

plane itinerary. Bozeman's weather, though looks sunny until Saturday... ?

[magicarpet]

13. Did one of his billionaire benefactors summons him and cause his schedule to be altered ?

The super rich guys want trDUMP to gas up his 757 jet and disappear to Moscow.

JD Vance will takeover and implement Project 2025.

trDump needs to just get out of the way of progress.

[doc03]

14. I heard a caller on Thom Hartmann earlier today say the reason for

the rally in Bozeman was an excuse to meet with rich donors in Billings.

[maxsolomon]

24. My brother said the fundraiser was at the Yellowstone Club

which is in Big Sky south of Bozeman

[rurallib]

53. The rich donors were in Jackson Hole Wyoming about 3 hours from Bozeman

Sounds like a pack of oil billionaires ready to dump large bucks on Trump

[hlthe2b]

15. Yellowstone (TV) fans...

maybe he's being driven to the "train station"...


Not serious, Agent Mike... Just a cultural reference....

[Dave says]

28. Surely Agent Mike retired by now

It's Agent Frank now or something.

/s

[DFab420]

16. The Intermountain Health St. Vincent Regional Hospital is a 5 minute drive from the airport.

[ibegurpard]

21. So is Billings Clinic

Two major medical centers right next to each other

[CurtEastPoint]

17. Shitter's full.

[superpatriotman]

18. Maybe he'll come in on horseback

Like the real cowboy he is.

[Conjuay]

63. with no shirt, like his hero

[FHRRK]

20. Be careful with this one

98% of us likely don’t know the difference between Bozeman and Billings.

But we can hope.

[Tree Lady]

50. Lol on one of my birthdays about 15 years ago

I hiked to the top of the "M" in Missoula on the way to Bozeman and Billings. We were living in WA and I wanted to drive to CO and enjoy Idaho and Montana on the way.

[videohead5]

22. I just read

That the plane had some kind of a leak.

[Red Mountain]

25. Dropping off classified documents?

[Chasing Dreams]

31. No.

A leaky diaper.

[malaise]

41. He outshitted the toilet

And it is leaking😂😀😂

[machoneman]

48. Diaper leak?

[Fiendish Thingy]

23. He still owes Montana $60k from his last visit

Maybe this is a karmic inconvenience

[Red Mountain]

26. Trying to avoid getting served, no doubt

[ibegurpard]

27. Bozeman is only about 1/2 hour

From Billings by air. Less if you weren't landing and taking off. I'm not buying the hydraulic leak story.

[global1]

32. Where Did You Hear About A Hydraulic Leak Problem?....nt

[lees1975]

29. Interesting. I thought it might be a little strange why he's holding a rally in one of the counties

where Biden beat him by 8 points in 2020.

[mahina]

38. Oh good info. thanks.

[global1]

30. Montana Is Far Enough Off The Beaten Path That....

It might be difficult to get MSN reporters in.

As such any news coming out from Montana might be sketchy.

It's a good place to have a cover story & they can get as creative with that story as they want.

[struggle4progress]

34. Thanks, Obama!

[Liberal In Texas]

35. Weather

It doesn't look bad right now, the weather has moved through, but when the plane got there Bozeman might have had some storms going on.

[mahina]

36. What are some reasons that planes are diverted?

-Weather- not this time
-mechanical problems- that would probably be reported
-emergency medical event- some possibilities include a panic attack, which is hard to discern from a real heart episode, and more serious things are. certainly possible, hope if that is true, we (the public) has eyes on the ground and it is reported.
(also not hoping for harm because I'm karma shy)
-passenger's behavior becomes out of control beyond the capacity of the crew to manage- certainly possible
or in the case of a private plane, maybe the passenger doesn't want to go where they were going initially. Others above suggest the attendance may not be enough to meet his...expectations.

Other possibilities?

[edisdead]

39. Hope its a fucking massive coronary

Stroke the fuck out already!

[Johnny2X2X]

42. If no one showed in Bozeman

He absolutely would call it off. This crowd size stuff is something he cares deeply about. Harris speaking to 20,000+ soon. Trump had an 8,000 seat arena booked, but if he was told only 2,500 people showed he would be embarrassed to show up.

Maybe he’s scared. He’s barely campaigned the last few weeks.

[blogslug]

43. Followup tweet (sorry)

Link to tweet

Bryanna Carroll @BryannaNBCMT

According to a source at the airport in Billings, former president Donald Trump’s flight was diverted to the airport there due to mechanical issues, and he will be continuing on to Bozeman via private jet.

4:41 PM · Aug 9, 2024

[tavernier]

59. Not if he has to pay for it

[TxGuitar]

44. Attention seeking

trying to gin up a news story.

[newdeal2]

46. Agree

He didn’t get enough attention after PA.

[BoomaofBandM]

45. Perhaps his bone spurs have been acting up since he tripped out of his shoe lifts.

[malaise]

47. Was on Local 10, ABC Florida

At 6.00pm

[Ocelot II]

49. I was watching on a flight tracker site, and when I saw it land at Billings I wondered

what was going on. Just saw it was a mechanical issue, interesting if they couldn't make it another 40 miles to Bozeman.

[OneBlueDotS-Carolina]

52. More of a plumbing issue...

Not a hydraulic leak, trump plugged the shitter again, all the lines are backed up, and it's leaking inside all the lavs...emergency landing with face masks is required.

[willamette]

64. 140 miles between the two cities, a two hour drive

[Ocelot II]

65. You're right, for some reason I was thinking it was closer.

Everything is pretty far apart in Montana.

[yourout]

51. Someone in Billings has a bigger check for him.

[TBF]

54. Billings is twice as big as Bozeman - better hospitals? nt

[FSogol]

57. Trump's motorcade is just a motorcade, it is not a Presidential Motorcade. n/t

[MistakenLamb]

58. That's what happens when you vastly overpay for a triple used lemon of a 757

[Chellee]

61. It doesn't help if you don't want to pay for maintenance

because you think all the mechanics are padding their bill to cheat you.

[GreenWave]

60. Perhaps they flew to close to Crazy Horse and JD Vance hit the panic button.

Vance had insulted Native Americans when his ugly comments surfaced a few weeks ago...



https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2024/07/23/jd-vance-rebuffed-tribal-concerns-insulted-indigenous-peoples-day/74455037007/