i am aware of his donated salary and applaud him greatly for this!
it is still awful optics not to buy wife a plane ticket
FLOTUS isn’t going out without a full SS detail.
She’s not flying commercial, period.
Trump has his own plane. He doesn’t have to fly her commercial. SS would get behind closed doors with the Chief of Staff and there would be elevated voices about something like that. Huge risk.
When she flies on a military aircraft for non-official purposes, the President essentially buys her a ticket by reimbursing the government for the costs.. Do you understand that it is official USG policy that the First Lady and the President not fly on commercial aircraft?