Posted on 07/23/2018 8:30:00 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Four 'Baby Trumps' are ready to taunt the President at Bedminster. Will the FAA let them 'fly'?
Updated 10:46 AM; Posted 10:46 AM
By Claude Brodesser-Akner
cbrodesser@njadvancemedia.com,
NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
The massive 'Baby Trump' balloon that gained global fame photo-bombing the London skyline during President Trump's visit to the U.K could soon be headed to Bedminster, thanks to a group of Democratic activists who hope to taunt the President whenever he stays at any of his golf courses.
But there's still one problem that might put Baby Trump in a corner: Some rather obscure FAA regulations on dirigible airships.
"There's no local ordinance preventing us from doing it," said Jim Girvan a retired Somerset county worker who's now a Democratic activist with the Branchburg Democrats. "But obviously he adds a different element to the calculation."
"He" of course, is the non-inflatable President, and both the U.S. Secret Service and Federal Aviation Administration have strict rules about what can and cannot enter the FAA's Temporary Flight Restriction area that surrounds him.
Technically, nothing can fly - no planes, no drones - in the 10-nautical-mile-radius surrounding wherever the President is staying.
Jim Peters, a spokesman at the FAA's office of communications, all referred questions about Baby Trump to the U.S. Secret Service.
But luckily for the Democrats, the Secret Service notes that Baby Trump is always tethered to the ground with ropes, so it doesn't really fly so much as float.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Get some electronics whiz and make an effective array of lasers.
“Do they realize they make no sense?”
That is all they have. If you cannot compete on the field of ideas or accomplishments, you take the Jr. High strategy of smear.
The newspaper.
What is that?
Let them have their fun. It will be all wasted effort and money.
The MAGA crowd thanks the juvenile rats for their efforts.
Across from the Mendham Garden Center, more north then I remembered, past Chester, I had to look it up myself. Skeet shooting though
Enough already
The whole balloon thing does nothing but show how juvenile these leftists are...
I agree! Let Baby Trump be another Pepe. Let them fly at all rallies. Let’s drive the left even more insane.
BB guns? Arrows? Drones? Can we bet on this?
Helium has gotten fairly expensive.
They make no sense on any subject.
Fireworks...................
Heh, I know...what could possibly go wrong...town workers...dynamite...rotting whale blubber...
The only thing missing was “Hold Muh Beer!”
No. It could land in the ocean and harm marine life. Shoot it full of holes so it lands on libtards.
Funny. The Brits commenting at DailyMail said it was not a blimp and only a fraction of the size of a Macy's parade balloon; and it was "flown" so low it didn't even clear the treetops in a public park. One comment called it a "pool toy."
The London photos showed at least four and possibly eight guywires, like those holding a circus tent.
DING! DING! DING!
WINNER!
But they'd rather strut and signify and stroke their own egos than do something useful. Shame on them. Balloons will have no affect at all on President Trump or his policies. However it will have an affect of stroking the egos of rich, spoiled, first world Democrat do-gooders.
They can preen and pose and think that spoiled first worlders flushing money down the toilet makes the world a better place. It's the ultimate Starbucks triple half-caff soy latte with whip cream and caramel drizzle.
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