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This was literally my first thought. You'd basically have to go through every one of the millions of components across every square inch to verify there was nothing sketchy going on. Not to mention, you'd have to review all of the software and firmware to make sure it wasn't modified or sabotaged in some way. It would take an excruciating amount of effort to make it "safe".

"It makes no sense on any level, except that he wants a free 747 for himself. Nothing else makes any sense."

Glad to see this spelled out so clearly.

This is exactly what I pointed out at first.

The existing presidential planes have pragmatic measures to deal with the less pleasant aspects and possibilities of presidential duties. This plane in contrast is nothing but absurd levels of luxury for rich dicks who want to show off their wealth and is unfit as a presidential plane.

The fact that Trump wants to use it as Air Force One for himself says a lot about how he views his duties as the president and how little personal sacrifice he is willing to do to serve his country.

Really like this story. trumps greed is on full display because wants a palace so bad he can't even fathom that this is a bad idea at every conceivable level.

Shows he doesn't care about spending money when it's himself. Dossnt care about a gift from terrorist supporters. Doesn't care about the money it would cost dismantling that to search for bugs. lol.

You know what? Fuck it, let him use it. Then we can all laugh when it quite literally blows up in his face.

This is the stupidest timeline. We miss you Harambe

Let's hope it's booby trapped and he goes down with the ship.

I know how this is going to end. Trump will ignore all security advice and just move right into the new plane without any delay or investigation. He dubs the plane "Air Force Gold." He quickly forgets the security warnings and moves on with his term. Unfortunately for him, in time he also forgot who gave him that plane. Which is why he didn't think twice when in 2026, he stabbed the Qataris in the back in a crucial trade deal, arms contract, or international incident. One night, when the plane is flying over the remote Pacific, all systems aboard suddenly shut down. No control surfaces respond. The engines shut down and all control is lost. Gold Force One spirals downward, eventually striking the water at 400 mph. The debris of the plain quickly sinks, weighed down by literal gold. There are no survivors. "The Tale of Trump" eventually becomes a new Aesop.

Cluster B personality disorder being played like a stringed puppet. There’s no way this plane isn’t rigged to surveillance and doesn’t have a kill switch.

Most people run away from Cluster B. 76 million ran to it to no vote for a democrat. And now here we are.

I really hope Trump fucks himself over so monumentally on his quest for personal affirmations that he gets himself killed, or worse.

Reminds me of the bugging of the new embassy in Moscow. It's a cautionary tail in and of itself which relates to this jet.

Air and Space Forces Magazine: Cleaning the Bug House.

...“Mr. Ambassador, these are the plans that disclose how the bugging of your embassy took place, and these are the instruments that were used,” said Bakatin. “I want them turned over to your government, no strings attached.” Strauss was dumbstruck, according to an account of the incident he gave later that year. After years of denial, the Soviet intelligence arm was admitting its role in one of the most notorious espionage incidents of the 1980s: It had packed the new US Embassy office building in Moscow with sophisticated listening devices. The edifice’s structure was so riddled with bugs that some US counterespionage experts described it as nothing but a giant microphone.

Trump is the embodiment of a security disaster, the airplane is just the icing on the top

"It wouldn't be in the air before 2030 at the earliest, long after he's left office"

He's not leaving office. He fought against stepping down last time and everyone has given him more power this time. He will never leave that office while he lives.

Maybe he'll die? please?

You know what? Let’s apply some of that “government efficiency” idiocy that he claims to be driving. Sure. Just jump in it and start flying around. Nothing matters anymore. By all means, traipse around in an unsecured, relatively undefended beacon of American shittiness without any of the standard VIP transport countermeasures, let alone the countermeasures that exist on the current AF1. See what happens.

Children of Kali noises intensify

The real question is "what news is trump trying to bury with this 747 crap"

How would Donnie react if they did take the plane... and then gave it the FULL work over? I'm talking fully disassembled on some hangar floor, not a single bolt holding two things together. Gotta check everything!

"Sure, Mister P, your plane will be ready for use in just a couple of years, maybe 2036."

experts warn that retrofitting it to meet presidential security standards could take years, cost hundreds of millions more, and risk national security due to potential embedded surveillance.

Oh, but that's the mindset from before the current administration. Back when presidential whims were at least moderated by process and oversight. Back when people believed that it didn't matter if America elected a ridiculous tinpot dictator, because they couldn't do anything just by themselves, the rest of the government was there to see the law and procedures were to be followed at all times. Now? Nobody in the White House cares. Donnie wants a jet, Donnie gets a jet.

Will any patriot of democracy with a functional stinger rocket please pay attention?

I mean the entire Trump and Republican administration is a security disaster. What's one more complete breakdown in national security at this point? Just cutting out the middleman with messaging apps on insecure devices.

This is yet another reason why the president shouldn't be a king; he shouldn't be able to make decisions that influence his own security negatively.

The head of his security should simply say "oh fucking hell's no" and that'd be it. This plane could be sabotaged in a million damn near impossible to detect ways. It could be bugged in a million undetectable ways, it's a security nightmare.

If he'd still wanted a flying palace, it'd be way, way cheaper to build one from scratch and be safe and trustworthy than to test, check, and retrofit this one.

His head of secut should be able to override his decisions when it comes to his safety

Then again, this is Cheetos USA now, so I'd say please go for it. Let quatar spy and learn all the US's secrets and then when they're done with the useful idiot, let them execute him by crashing his plane remotely. The world, the US, it'll all be a better place without him and he'll be doing exactly what he wants, he's just too dumb to keep himself alive

Trumps heard "free" and "jet" so he said yes. No complex thoughts will ever enter his mind about this transaction. He gets a jet and that is all that matters to him.

Hope it crashes

My first thought was “either Hollywood lied to me (SHOCKING) or the current 747 has a series of defenses, flares, electronic countermeasures, and what not that this new plane doesn’t have”.

This whole story is just more "flood the zone" bullshit. They know this is a bad idea and that it won't work or won't work in time; they just want to manufacture another distraction that the opposition will lose its shit over.

As for the threat of embedded surveillance devices, Richard Aboulafia, managing director of aircraft consultancy AeroDynamic Advisory, said: "You'd have to take it apart piece by piece to stop a professional operator putting in lots of equipment to confuse things, like spare sensors and wiring."

What if the Qataris or Russia install a kill switch? Every time the president flies, it’s by the good grace of some foreign overlord. All that to fly in a plane that looks like some kitsch hotel…

I don’t care. If the plane falls out of the sky, will that really affect me?

It’s not like this administration cares about secret information anyway. Hegseth