Trump on Truth Social: Savings on jet will help make America great again. "Thank you for your attention to this matter."

[highplainsdem]

Screenshot of Trump's message was posted by Aaron Rupar with the comment, "He thinks American voters are really dumb."

he thinks American voters are really dumb

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-05-13T23:54:37.741Z

[BOSSHOG]

1. Another trump post with maga in mind

He loves stupid people so much and goes to pains to keep them that way.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. The man is stupid and ignores reality. Many reasons to refuse the trojan white elephant loaner. . . nt

[Rebl2]

3. 🙄🙄🙄

[Disaffected]

4. WTF? "Big savings"??

It will cost hundreds of millions to upgrade the thing to AF1 specs (likely more than the $400 mil the plane itself is supposedly worth).

Why not save even more and just keep the current AF1s until the new planes are available??

Of course, the obvious answer is that Trump wants his own gold plated air-bordello and he wants it now. I expect the sequence of events will be he accepts the g(r)ift and when the exorbitant conversion costs become better known he will simply "donate" it to his "library" or some other entity controlled by the Trump Org and use it thereafter for personal purposes.

[underpants]

7. He hates AF1 as much as he hates the White House from what I understand

See my post below. Yes it’s going to cost a lot to get this up to AF1 standards and requirements.

[ellise]

5. Talking Strictly to the Maga Group!!

So that they can rally, scream and create havoc to try to make this happen. How stupid does he really think we are???

[underpants]

6. It's going to cost that anyway

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20313955

They have to strip it completely out. Check for bugs. Install secure commo systems. Anti missile flares. They carry a lot of food with them, worst case scenario they may have to mid flight refuel and stay up for a long time. I’m sure there’s a small highly secure armory on AF1 for when they land in that scenario and just generally being able to secure the plane and POTUS. Sleeping quarters for SS and crew. And lots more we have no idea about.

[bdamomma]

8. He's having

a temper tantrum because the bully thug wants 2 new Air Force One's, are going to be late. Jerk.

[AZJonnie]

9. If it's really to be owned by the Defense Department then they should be able to decide what to do with it

By far the smartest thing to do would be to take it (since it's free) but deploy it for some other useful purpose that won't cost a fortune to retrofit it for. Hell, sell it to freaking United or some shit. What's Qatar going to do about it? If Trump's accounting is true that they're gifting it to the USA as 'payback' for 'defending their country', We The People should be to use it for whatever makes financial sense.

Turning it into AF1 when there's already one being built is a fucking ridiculous use of it.

[Bettie]

10. Does that creature ever

stop whining? Seriously, everything he says or puts on social media sounds like an ill-behaved and overtired toddler whining because he didn't get...whatever.

[Doodley]

11. So glad Trump made that clear. For a moment, I was worried that he was a grifter.

[hildegaard28]

12. People need

To start calling it the hamas gift plane.

[musette_sf]

13. He ends all of his rants these days with

“Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

Christ 🙄

[videohead5]

14. They are saying that it could take

Two to four years to get the plane upgraded. In two years, the brand new AF1 will be ready. This is a Trump scam. He wants the taxpayer to pay for the upgrades and then the ownership of the plane goes to his library in 2029 and he and his family can still use it.