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"I like this better. I dont have to travel. I get off the plane, I make a speech, I get the hell out of here." https://politicususa.com/2020/09/03/trumps-pennsylvania-supporters-cheer-after-he-tells-them-he-cant-wait-to-leave-their-state.html
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Posted on Thu, Sep 3rd, 2020 by Sean Colarossi
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/09/03/trumps-pennsylvania-supporters-cheer-after-he-tells-them-he-cant-wait-to-leave-their-state.html
Trumps Pennsylvania Supporters Cheer After He Tells Them He Cant Wait To Leave Their State
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During a campaign event in Pennsylvania on Thursday night, Trump said one of the upsides to the pandemic is that he doesnt have to spend too much time in battleground states.
Were doing the hangar thing now because the arenas, cant do it because of the pandemic. Trump said. In certain ways, I like this better. I dont have to travel. I get off the plane, I make a speech, I get the hell out of here.
The mostly maskless crowd of MAGA loyalists immediately applauded Trumps comments.
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underpants
(182,863 posts)He has absolutely no respect for the office. None.
MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)if they could handle AF-1. I could be wrong, but hey, it is NOT a major center for "international" travel.
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)The Presidents Secret Air Force
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/02/the-presidents-secret-air-force-215091
underpants
(182,863 posts)Ill finish reading that later. Very interesting. I remember seeing a document about the secret service randomly showing up at grocery stores to buy supplies for AF1.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,376 posts)The 89th Airlift Wing handles the operations for the Presidential Fixed Wing Transport and they have 5 different aircraft in their inventory, all painted in a similar way and all of them can and have used the call sign Air Force One at one time or another.
Likewise, Air Force Two is not a particular aircraft, but rather the call sign used whenever the Vice President is using a given aircraft.
The runway at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport is about 8,000 feet long, so getting the larger 747 off the ground would have been a bit close (they could have landed it OK, though it would have been tight) so they flew the C-32A (A 757, basically) which is clearly shown in the background of the videos at one of the links in the OP.
There was an incident with one of the alternative aircraft (it might have been one of the 757s) during Clinton or Bushs time in office where the pilot made a turn too sharp onto a taxiway and actually got it stuck in the grass! Thats why they always have a backup plane close at hand, just in case anything happens.
The C-32A;
a kennedy
(29,694 posts)AleksS
(1,665 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)Travel by plane
SWBTATTReg
(22,156 posts)Kind of pathetic ... and what a loser would do, fake / stuff the crowd w/ MAGAs so much, that one has to get the can of RAID out and spray for pests.
magicarpet
(14,160 posts)Why can't he do his 2020 pResidential campaign from a trDumpie golf cart ? He could travel all over the USA and really mix and mingle with the voters from his golf cart.