Donald Trump no longer has a 747 flying under the Air Force One call sign. He no longer has his Boeing 757 in flying condition either. It has fallen into disrepair needing maintenance and missing parts.
He recently had a well-publicized incident where the plane he was in – not his own – had to make an emergency landing. The Dassault Falcon 900 which was taking him from an event in New Orleans to Palm beach suffered an engine failure. His team used the opportunity to fundraise for a new plane.
The fundraising email said he had “a very important update on his plane” and asked potential donors if they remember how the former president used to travel across the U.S. in his own “Trump Force One” before he became “the greatest President of all time.”
The email included a GIF of a plane taking off with a poll giving donors “yes” or “no” options if they wanted to see his new plane.
The poll links to a donation page that asks supporters to “Contribute ANY AMOUNT IMMEDIATELY to send your response to President Trump!”
It’s not as though the plane that had problems was his own, and he presents himself as having such wealth that he could afford a jet without donations from The Poors. (He could also, presumably, afford maintenance on his personal 757, registration N757AF.)
The email asked, “DO YOU WANT TO SEE THE NEW TRUMP FORCE ONE?” And under his byline wrote,
Actual billionaires might vertically integrate meat production and distribution to create branded high-quality steaks. They do not, however, license their name for a low seven figure amount to promote steaks of indeterminate quality. In fairness, Forbes estimates a net worth of $2.1 billion however federal election filings suggested a self-reported (and therefore possibly exaggerated) $1.5 billion net worth in 2015 before things started going south.
To quote PT Barnum: “There’s a sucker born every minute”
In this case 75+ million. If they are dumb enough to contribute, he might as well milk them. There are many things I can’t stand about him but I do respect his ability to continue going to the GOP ATM and finding there is more money to give him.
I thought your website was about airlines and credit cards. But now I see it too has become a commentary for your left wing political views.
Why don’t you just change the name to: View from the Left?
Gave him $100. #47!
Of course he has, and the millions of cultist will contribute, while he laughs all the way to the bank.
Appears he’s broke or no cash. A billionaire that cannot afford to travel ? Or maintain the aircraft ?its not just buying the aircraft. He probably cannot afford to operate it with jet fuel past $4.00 per gallon
I just contributed $1.48 for a used Pinto —— with a full tank of gas.
Maybe he can get it from Biden’s China money. Joe’s 10% cut has got to add up to billions of dollars by now. as Brandon’s son said “10% for the big guy”
Trumps sheep being fleeced again…..why doesn’t he use his profits from his Casinos, whoops, maybe not…perhaps his Trump University ..uh, never mind, maybe his airline?….well at least his latest social media venture should be a real money maker …after he gathers up his flocks personal information for future use ….what could go wrong with that?
Well, this story is about a plane,
or lack of one…..
@ Alan — There’s a moron born every minute.
@ Gene……………………… And his name is Gene
All you leftists should give money to Barry Obama’s Museum…that’s a good cause!
Don’t feel sorry for tRump’s fleeced flock. They’ll eventually realize how much they’ve taken it up the tail pipe.
Trump should take the money from his “COVFEFE” Fund and buy himself a plane so he can fly to “MINNENIEONAPOLIS” so he can pick up a person, woman, man, camera, TV.
Points and miles, Gary. Points and miles…..
Jack Abel, stop insulting us and get your checkbook out so your Dear Leader can fly in comfort. Why will you not help the poor man?!
He is going to fly on John Heinz Kerry’s wife’s plane now.
@Fred,
>> I just contributed $1.48 for a used Pinto —— with a full tank of gas. <<
Don’t forget the Firestone 500 tires.
And the con goes on as the grift continues!
He sacrificed family riches to become president and all the resentful propagandists on the left care to to do is try to damage his personally and politically to protect their own corrupt power. Glad I left the Democratic Party last year.
I recall under Trump we we paying $1.75 for gas, inflation was tame, the Middle East had the unprecedented Abraham accords, stocks went up, crime was under control, bad trade deals were being addressed, minority employment and incomes had never been better, the USA was energy independent, Ukraine corruption was being addressed and the southern border was under control.
Bonus: we did not have an Alzheimer’s patient in Delaware pretending that he knows what’s going on and and a gal who slept her way into politics as veep.
I sent him $1,000. Can you remind me exactly what you leftists are demanding?
@ RJB — The Trump administration sparked the massive inflation with its reckless $20 trillion money-printing. Then, Putin lost his lap dog Trump, leaving him without a puppet in charge of the USA, so now we have a war in Ukraine. This is all Trump’s fault, but his moron followers will believe anything State News says.
Is it Gary Leff or Gary Left? Obviously written from the view point and supporter of the A Team Biden/ Harris. I enjoy Under The Wing but not when politics, left or right are brought into it. Mr Leff showed what a small petty man he is!
Fictitious Gene,
Nice try. That inflation you are talking about is Byeden’s gift to working people. The Byeden family has made millions from their political connections. His handlers are working behind the scenes. I suspect that’s why Osama is still living in Washington D.C. ? I thought he was going to stay In D.C. UNTIL HIS DAUGHTER FINISHED HIGH SCHOOL….Duh? What happened? Why isn’t he in south Chicago?
Also please note…..that TRIMP……is toxic ! Conservative voters know that Trimp gave Georgia their two Democrat Senators……because he wouldn’t get out of the way. Still talking about the election loss…..and on and on and on…
That’s old hat……forget it. It’s over. Did TRIMP do good for America…..absolutely!!! But it’s over.
Youngkin won Virginia governor election BECAUSE HE SAW THE TOXIC REACTION FROM TRIMP association. He wasn’t stupid. He won the election. TRIMP is still campaigning as if it’s 2015/2016?
Hey- since 2014, tRump & his Q-tRump cultists has mirrored the playbook of repugnant TV / Radio false profit evangelist preachers ..
Willful ignorance & pathetic blind faith provides a consistent and fertile playground for thieves & grifters.
This topic is relevant & appropriate subject matter for this website,….
****And Mr, Leff is hardly a lefty extremist by any measure.
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Gene- you are an idiot. Keep buying the bullshit CNN and the DemocRatic Party spews as your chosen traitor brain dead Biden ruins America.
Once a grifter, always a grifter. That’s Trump-supporters’ Lord Trump being consistent.
@ David Miller — Sorry that you don’t understand the basic principles of economics and inflation.
@Gene – well, it’s a function of the Fed’s low interest rates and building up of balance sheet (printing money), Trump’s spending in concert with a Democrat-controlled House, and Biden’s continued federal spending under Democrat-controlled House and Senate. Trump, Jerome Powell, and the current administration share some blame.
Just trying to keep up with the televangelist Copelands and Dollars…
@ Gary — I don’t not agree with you, but the vast majority of this money-printing occurred under Trump and due to Trump’s political interference with the Fed. How many times per day did Munchie call the Fed during 2020 so he could make sure that he and his buddies were protected from the market fallout? This revolting, corrupt behavior is unprecedented. The Biden administration’s contribution to the inflation quite small by comparison.
Still a loser !
Ditched voting GOP when the Chump won the nomination. Anyone that would hire Roy Cohn and then act like Roy Cohn is an idiot. But Chump is worse. Racist, lying a-hole with nothing good in his personality. Likes money more than people. Calls soldiers losers, as he supports Putin. Worse Pres in history. “Stand down and stand by.” “LET’S GO CHUMP.”
I can’t believe there are people out there that think they should donate to Trump so he can buy another airplane. Doesn’t the fact that he was unable to keep his other airplanes airworthy at least make you question his request? Of all the important and needy charities that could use help someone thinks buying Trump another airplane is more important…….Trumpism has done more then just divide our country and substantially weaken us, it’s eroded much of what was good about America.
It will change, just like McCarthism went away so will Trumpism, but it will take time.
Well for sure a lot more ex Republicans were created by Trump than any defections from the Democrat party in the other direction. Republicans now have to own up to Q Anon, Gaetz /Green and their ilk and the fact that the Republican Party is associated with pathological lying and a willingness to undermine democracy to try and gain control.
Rog – keep watching/buying CNN’s bullshit. Your post is one of the most ignorant, stupid things I have ever read. How does it fell to be an imbecile?
@David Miller:
I don’t have cable, thus I don’t watch CNN. I have only seen CNN and FOX while overseas. Having a college friend in Journalism and who worked for CNN as an anchor, I definitely know who is objective and who is not. Chump is such a genius. The imbeciles are the 75 million who voted for Mr. Nasty. Davey, keep voting for Chump so you can remain a “Chump Fool.”
Rog – you are full of lying liberal bullshit. Do you actually believe that America, after 15 months of brain dead Biden’s reign, that America is better off than when President Trump was in office?
Trump ain’t too proud or too rich to beg.
Trump wants to turn America into the kind of “shithole country” where one person (the one in power) determines who wins an election not the people who voted. He did his darndest to overturn the 2020 election and is still pushing the Big Lie despite losing more than 60 cases from district courts up to the right-wing controlled U.S. Supreme Court just last month. Those who continue to support him, fine — you’re the ones who will have to live with that. Just don’t call yourselves Americans, patriots or believers in the rule of law, the constitution, or democracy. You all are the RIHNOs not Cheney.
john- you too, are an idiot. Look around you, how do you like what brain dead Biden has done to America in just 15 months? You are too stupid to have the right to vote.
History and Civics Lesson: Presidents cannot “spend” money money. All spending bills originate in the House of Representatives. Presidents can veto spending bills or sign them. Trump shut down the government 3 times in dispute over the quantity and quality for spending in the 2019 budget.
So Trump ended up signing legislation that was not fiscally responsible to the tune of $8 billion in National Debt. The $20 billion figure cited earlier by the individual with a bad case of TDS is not correct. Legislation that the Biden administration is demanding will like add $5 -6 trillion in additional National Debt if the legislation is passed.
Finally, the Fed balance sheet expanded by $3.5 trillion during the Trump administration, all in the last year during the covid period. Again, the President (and Congress for that matter) don’t direct the Fed . They are supposedly independent. (one year of the Biden Fed has already increased the balance sheet by half as much as the entire 4 year Trump administration)
Congress deserves most the blame for reckless spending. Reckless spending, the Fed and the barriers put in place to fossil fuel extraction is responsible for a good deal of the inflation issue which, BTW, isn’t going away any time soon. So enjoy living in a fantasy world where Trump is personification of evil and get used to the new normal of high inflation, high energy prices, high crime, rising taxes, lower returns in financial markets, open borders, a weak and ineffective US being bulled on the world stage and the beginning of an era where actual hard choices need to be made in terms of Federal spending.
Now this is what we call CHUTZPAH!
Now this is what we call CHUTZPAH!
I have read Gary’s column for years.
I also have never seen such hostility written by his readers/responders.
What happened to our civilized world?
@dmg9 : “What happened to our civilized world?”
Response : Donald J. Trump becoming a role model for extreme rudeness.
Desert Guy – The answer to your question is easy – lying liberals and the traitorous DemocRats – just look what they have done the past 15 months to America.
I rest my case.
The country’s discourse has gotten openly courser and courser for a long time. Politics has always been a bitterly contested activity, but often “beneath the sheets,” while most people still had the sense that there were rules and decorum being upheld. The discourse has gotten worse as a direct reaction to the demands for cultural change in America made by some groups and then the right-wing reaction by others in response. The more America changes by shaky increments to be truly a republic for all and not just for those who have relative privilege, the more this threatens and enrages those who have had that privilege, and the more the latter are driven insane heights of hateful, extreme discourse to defend their patrimony. This was already happening for a long time but exploded into national consciousness in the 1960s. It accelerated under the tutelage of Newt Gingrich in the 1990s when he trained incoming Republicans to use the language of “traitor” and “criminal” to describe political opponents. Donald Trump is just the most recent walking, talking embodiment of this right wing politics of wounded, self-pitying victimhood, of near-religious and euphoric fascistic know-nothingness, crying out for daddy to make it alright again, to stop the blacks and the browns and the queers and whoever else from taking even a small part of the pie away from David Miller.
@Steve : [applause] [applause] [applause]
Steve – Desert Guy — You two are brainwashed idiots. Keep sucking on that lying liberal DemocRatic tit as brain dead puppet Biden undermines America .