Joe Biden’s Campaign Will Go Without A Plane (Since The Candidate Won’t Leave His Basement)

by Gary Leff

Presidential campaigns traditionally have planes. But this year Joe Biden is going without one since he won’t leave his basement won’t be traveling much for in-person events during the pandemic.

John McCain’s 2008 campaign flew a Boeing 737, the “Straight Talk Express,” while Sarah Palin was relegated to a regional jet (a JetBlue Embraer ERJ-190). Mitt Romney raffled off time on his campaign jet as a fundraiser. Mike Pence flew in a leased Eastern Airlines Boeing 737.


Source: Eastern Airlines

Naturally President Trump’s 2016 campaign rented his Boeing 757 ‘Trump Force One’, though during the plane he got into some legal thicket with his Cessna (that he extricated himself from by selling the plane.. to himself).

So far Biden’s campaign hasn’t booked any airfare, so figures they don’t need a plane.

  • Swing states worth flying to have gathering size limits anyway

  • And Biden will be saying Trump events are “gambling with American lives for his own political gain.”

  • Yet… he hasn’t actually ruled out getting a plane and doing events later “if individual states change their guidelines.”

Journalists loved ‘hanging with the candidate’ on the McCain plane. And what would we have done without seeing Hillary Clinton on board “Stronger Together” with her feet up on the bulkhead?

When you become President, by the way, you get a much cooler plane.

I had to have a little fun with this one. And if you can’t take a jab or two no matter which side you’re on you’re doing it wrong.

(HT: Paul H.)

About Gary Leff

Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel - a topic he has covered since 2002. Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »

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Comments

  2. Biden’s been outside of his home very frequently all summer.

    You just don’t see a responsible Biden going out golfing and campaigning this summer like an irresponsible Trump has done. Biden leads by example, as is to be expected of an honorable man of good character.

  3. Sometimes the president flies around in the 757 variant that’s normally used by the VP. I wonder if they get the same feeling as elite fliers do when they’re told they didn’t get an upgrade.

  5. +1 GUWonder. Surprised to read this ignorant snark from Gary. Snark, sure, but usually not ignorant!

  6. “Biden’s been outside of his home very frequently all summer.”

    Been visiting the clubs to see his grandchild’s baby mama, has he?

    Oh, Biden’s a character all right. He tells a US black of American descent he ain’t black then picks a mostly, Indian and European running mate whose sliver of black ancestry comes from Jamaica.

  8. @AlohaDave – thanks for your race-baiting appearance today!

    (any criticism people have for Biden, one can make the same argument against Trump 10-fold…)

  10. Maybe Kamala Harris will do both the traveling and talking for Joe Biden. Entire nation you too can be like California, but minus the geographic beauty and nice weather of course.

  11. I think a more accurate statement would be to say that he won’t leave his rest home and that Kamala’s duties include speaking for him, traveling for him, and wiping the drool off his chin.

  12. Jeez. What a c***y headline and attack. I guess we are seeing Gary’s true colors. Time to ditch this feed.

  13. I note the DNC is going to be “zooming” the convention and this may play in their favor. Biden has probably mastered Fortnite while in the basement and is better equipped for this new virtual reality. I keep imagining him yelling at the sump pump when it comes on during a crucial point in the game.

  14. Even when Biden does leave his basement his interactions are so tightly controlled it’s like he is paraded outside to confirm that he is still alive. I guess people are taking Obama’s comment to “Don’t underestimate Biden’s ability to f*#k things up” seriously. I’m betting Harris will do more of the travel since she will be the President anyway. Biden will be physically around, but his mind is already heading towards the exit.

  17. UA-NYC,

    If actions speak louder than words then Joe Biden does care. His laws helped put 10 fold the number of African Americans in prison. Joe supports Black Lives in Prison.

  19. Gary, while I almost always have immense respect for you – this clickbait headline is garbage and you were really thoughtless for posting disinformation like that to get clicks.

    And I say that on the day the moron in charge wants to destroy the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, temperatures nationwide are out of control (cf Death Valley, record high).

    Maybe forsaking a plane isn’t such a bad thing.

    No more clickbait headlines, please.

  22. He’s not in the basement. He’s in his home. I wish people would stop saying that. Maybe his home office/Zoom setup is in the basement, but he’s not living in his basement. It’s just demeaning to keep saying that.

  24. Looks like no one has any humor left in them anymore. As was once uttered in the classic theatrical release Stripes, “Lighten up Francis”

  26. If he stays around in his neighborhood , I would be afraid this country in Maybe Kamala’s hand.

  27. Very glad you think the state of this country is something to joke about. Ha ha – 200,000 dead from a pandemic we could have greatly avoided but for the ineptitude of this administration but let’s play the both sides game right now . . . pathetic.

  28. Another Rethuglican posing as an unbiased writer. Glad to be done with this garbage feed.

  29. Wow, going low with basement comment Gary. “Sad”, “bigly”.

    “I had to have a little fun with this one. And if you can’t take a jab or two no matter which side you’re on you’re doing it wrong.” Over 165K dead Covid-19 bodies in US, 775K worldwide ….. not so fun really.

  31. There’s such venom coming from both the left and right. Never in my life have I seen a president cause such divisiveness in this country.

  33. I have to ask what can Joe Biden get done in his maybe one year as President that he couldn’t get done In his eight (8) years as VP and thirty-two (32) years in Congress? I’m under the impression that he’s more the problem than the solution these days.

  35. The creep is Trump. That Trump was best party buddies with child molesters Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell says volumes about Trump. And also telling is Trump’s recent statement wishing Ghislaine Maxwell well in her federal criminal case related to sexual exploitation of minors.

    Trump needs to go to a bunker of his own making, for the criminal creep he is.

  36. WRONG!!! Again. President Trump banned Epstein and NEVER went to pedo island – unlike the clintons and many other left-wing pervs.

  37. I totally agree that Beijing BIDEN doesn’t want to leave the basement. I haven’t seen such a weak presidential candidate in Biden/Harris in my life. What a complete loser and anyone that will vote for those two.

  38. News flash to Trump Sycophants – you realize he’s not a king, and he has to be re-hired by the country if he is to serve another 4 years, right? What exactly are his accomplishments again? Building a Mexico wall? Oh wait. Cratering the Obama GDP expansion? Whoops (note: Obama’s last three years had better growth than Trump’s three years pre-Covid). 250K dead from Covid by Election Day? That’s not good – apparently it didn’t just magically disappear????.

    Being a BFF to Foreign Dictators, White Nationalists, & QAnon worshippers everywhere? I guess that’s one “success”.

  39. Honestly Gary…you truly are a douchebag. ANY negativity to Biden is just reprehensible this stage of the horror show. You think you’re such a good person…you aint. You’re gross. Inside and out.

    Still friends with Summer from Mommy points? Im sure she would be disgusted with your anti Biden rhetoric. Go eat a pizza or 10.

    I know you probably posted this for clicks and to boost your website and bank account. Which makes you even worse.

  40. Wow! I can’t believe the vitriol on the Trump vs Biden voters. What matters is that whomever wins the election takes care of all of us. Its not helping the conversation that we go for the little things rather than the big picture guys!

  41. AlohaDaveKenned, Maury, One Trippe and Jim, you racists should go to your KKK meetings and swap spit. Bring along the Pussy Grabber if he can get away from playing golf.

  42. Allen: Who created the KKK? Democrats! You can never escape that fact! Who freed the slaves? Republicans! Who are the true racists?

  44. @ UA-NYC
    What are Creepy Pedo Joe’s accomplishments? He has been in office 48 years – name one accomplishment.

    @ allen Do you really think it was Creepy Pedo Joe who picked Harris? Or did she just pass the sniff test?

  45. Where does this pedophile Biden thing come from? Absolutely horrifying blindly accusing someone of a crime… and this sleepy Joe thing, ,didn’t Fox News that some of you religiously watch show him biking? I’ve never seen a photograph of trump doing any sort of outdoor exercise. I’ll bet none of you even know why Trump referred to him as sleepy joe you’re all just parroting his rhetoric.

  46. @ NFO

    Were you not asleep like Creepy Pedo Joe you would already know why people refer to him as creepy and a pedo. You would also know that President Trump plays tennis and golf. The only exercise Creepy Pedo Joe gets is swimming naked in front of female Secret Service security.

  47. @Jim
    Swimming naked? More baseless allegations. Please get your facts from news sources and not snippets off google searches. It’s an allegation from a book. Can I use the Trumpian term “fake news” . When was the last time Trump played tennis? I hope you’re not referring to that pic of him in white. That photo was taken in 2000. Golf is certainly not exercise….
    You still have not explained where the term pedophile comes from…

  49. Almost forgot to add you didn’t explain what makes him ‘sleepy joe’ aside from the fact that your parroting Trump.

  51. Gary you are starting to crack the Trump tweet code. Throw a bone out to a pack of distracted dogs and watch them freak out while you stand back and watch. Besides can’t people take a joke anymore? Where is @debit when you need them 🙂
    Personally I find rented campaign planes funny. Sorta like the carhardt jacket farm visits for photo ops during the election cycle.

  52. Trump was friends with the notorious, since-convicted child-molester Jeffrey Epstein for many years; Trump “danced” and partied with Epstein often in NY and Florida; and Trump and Epstein were often frequently together when one or both of them were chasing even teenage girls as the dirty old men in their 50+s.

    Trump was also friends with Bill Clinton; the very Clinton who also was chummy with Epstein but always had US Secret Service along to sort of keep that former Presidential lecher straight enough to not run on the wrong side of the law when it comes to teenage girls.

    Unlike Trump, Clinton and their teenage-girl-chasing buddy Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, Joe Biden is a decent, honorable man of faith and good character with no criminal sexual proclivities. By every reasonable standard, Trump, Clinton, Epstein and “I wish her well” Maxwell are not decent, honorable people of faith and good character. Instead it is a given that Trump, Clinton, Epstein and Maxwell have many known criminal sexual proclivities involving females. Even a few weeks ago, Trump was publicly wishing well to his child-sex-exploiting friend Ghislaine Maxwell. They say birds of a feather flock together, and I say Trump’s flock speaks volumes about Trump even years after it disperses.

    AlohaDaveKennedy is a notorious, racist troll on travel sites. It is what it is.

    Kamala Harris is not a “mostly Indian and European running mate”. She’s a biracial, natural-born US citizen of Afro-Jamaican-American heritage and South Indian-American heritage who identifies primarily as African-American, as that is how she has identified herself since she was a child …. long before she even decided to attend Howard University in DC.

    AlohaDaveKennedy has his opinions about people, but he has no right to determine how biracial Americans want to self-identify culturally in America. If you want to dictate how biracial people identify ethnically, please do us all a favor and go move into Putin’s Russia as a guest of Comrade Trump and feel right at home in the arms of Mother Russia.

    I wonder how AlohaDaveKennedy is going on to reconcile with Trump having financially bankrolled Kamala Harris by donating Trump money to Harris campaigns even after Trump had jumped onto the Obama-bashing train with its racist dog whistles.

  53. Jim,

    Trump’s perverted. Trump’s perverted when it comes to his sexual morals and when it comes to “governing”. Trump’s bizarre family life has also been perverted from the beginning, and Trump’s perversions carries onto the present with his sexualization of his own first daughter.

    Biden makes a lot of verbal gaffes — not surprising given he has had a chronic stuttering situation to manage since he was a little kid — but Biden is about as boring, normal as there is in Washington, and I would chose boring normalcy over the Chinese curse of “may you live in interesting times” that Putin’s useful idiot Comrade Trump has delivered to America.

    Biden is actually better in a way than Obama, as Biden is of the traditional American political school that has him able to disagree on what should be done while still having respect and being respectful for those who disagree with him on policy matters. I’ll take old school American Biden over the backward, stumbling anti-American, Putin-loving Trump who can’t even walk down a ramp — forget about even running like Biden — and so goes golfing instead.

  54. @Jim

    I asked why you referred to him as creepy pedo Joe.. why are you deflecting the answer by asking me the same question? What facts have I misrepresented?

  55. NFO,

    There is a lot of credible evidence to the idea of Trump being in on chasing females “on the younger side” with his late buddy and infamous sexual abuser of teenage girls Jeffrey Epstein. But to detract from such facts about no-holds/grabs-barred Trump, the worshippers of their Lord Trump have to make up and peddle fictional claims to try to attack Trump’s opponents.

    There is zero credible claim to the idea of Biden having any sexual inclination toward underage females. Trump, on the other hand, has made repeat sexual grabs of teenage females in NY and elsewhere.

    If Jim had a 16-year-old daughter, would he be more worried with having his daughter alone in a room with Biden or would he be more worried about having his daughter alone in a room with Trump? I wouldn’t trust leaving anyone alone with Trump.

  56. @ wonderbuss,

    Show us the evidence. President Trump was NOT friends with Epstein, and in fact banned him from his clubs. Yes, you can find photos of the two together, but what are the chances two billionaires living in New York end up at the same party? There is evidence of BOTH Clintons traveling to pedo island, along with hundreds of other left-wing pervs. There is plenty of evidence of Creepy Joe touching and sniffing young girls, and a few boys, too. I would be a million times more worried about my daughter with Creepy Joe than w/ President Trump.

  57. There are more than just photos, there are also videos of Trump and Epstein hanging out together a lot of times and doing no less than checking out young females, including some that were minors at the time. That and more provides evidence that Trump and Epstein were buddies. Much the same goes for Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell.

    Trump’s former buddy Bill Clinton was also chummy with Epstein and Maxwell, even inviting Maxwell to his daughter’s wedding.

    Guess who didn’t party with pervert Trump and his pervert buddies? Joe Biden. Joe Biden is eccentric in ways, but he’s no perverted sexual predator.

    Trump is the perverted sexual predator running for US President.

    I can’t wait for the pervert-in-chief Trump to be replaced by the old school, American decency that Biden represents.

    I am voting against the pervert Trump in November. Trump represents the perversion of America that Putin desires and desired when he chose to back the pervert Trump.

  59. wonderbluss,

    There are hundreds of photos of bumbling Creepy Joe inappropriately touching kids and young woman. But you are going to ignore all that and the rape of a Senate Aide in 1993 aren’t you? Even Kamala Harris has said she believes Joe’s accusers. You are also going to ignore Biden’s illegal interference in Ukraine, Hunter Biden’s illegal activities, Biden’s rapidly failing mental health, his efforts to imprison thousands of Black people (1994 crime bill), his assault on the Constitution, etc, etc.

    Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXA–dj2-CY

    QUOTE: “Don’t Underestimate Joe’s ability to f&%k thing’s up” Obama

    #Believeall women

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