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Miles Archer

(22,404 posts)
Tue Feb 17, 2026, 07:28 PM 14 hrs ago

Spend, Spend, Spend, Spend, Spend, Spend...then Spend some more. Trump is unhappy with the Air Force 1 color scheme.

Shortly after returning to the Oval Office for his second term in January 2025, Trump told reporters he planned to revive his long-stalled effort to customize Air Force One after former President Joe Biden scrapped the proposed redesign during Trump’s first term, citing costs and delays.

“We want power blue, not baby blue,” Trump said last year. “Everything has its time and place. We’ll be changing the colors.”

Before Trump’s re-election, one of his advisers told Politico that he would move forward with the change if he returned to office.

“The model was on the coffee table in the Oval Office and he pointed it out many times to foreign and domestic visitors,” the person told the outlet. “He thought it represented America more and represented strength—the red, white, and blue.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-erases-kennedy-history-with-air-force-fleet-makeover/

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Spend, Spend, Spend, Spend, Spend, Spend...then Spend some more. Trump is unhappy with the Air Force 1 color scheme. (Original Post) Miles Archer 14 hrs ago OP
Who cares if it can fly, snot 14 hrs ago #1
Just because it has the word 'power' in it, and the word 'baby' reminds him of the Trump inflatable. Doodley 13 hrs ago #2
Is there a color shade called moron blue? It would be perfect. Dave Bowman 13 hrs ago #3
Using the U.S. Treasury as his personal ATM dalton99a 13 hrs ago #4
What the hell is "power" blue? GoCubsGo 13 hrs ago #5
I guess superfluous government spending kwolf68 13 hrs ago #6
That color is NOT baby blue. 3catwoman3 12 hrs ago #7
Like a dog marking his territory lame54 12 hrs ago #8
Makes a better target...No? Totally Tunsie 11 hrs ago #9

Doodley

(11,799 posts)
2. Just because it has the word 'power' in it, and the word 'baby' reminds him of the Trump inflatable.
Tue Feb 17, 2026, 07:52 PM
13 hrs ago

GoCubsGo

(34,799 posts)
5. What the hell is "power" blue?
Tue Feb 17, 2026, 08:05 PM
13 hrs ago

Never heard of that shade. Just more shit that putrid motherfucker pulled out of his ass.

kwolf68

(8,365 posts)
6. I guess superfluous government spending
Tue Feb 17, 2026, 08:06 PM
13 hrs ago

Isn't important to Republicans anymore. Recall when they had a bird because Bill Clinton got a haircut.

I really can't stand those people.

3catwoman3

(29,040 posts)
7. That color is NOT baby blue.
Tue Feb 17, 2026, 09:00 PM
12 hrs ago

It is officially called robin's egg blue.

Leave well enough alone.

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