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Scoop: Trump wants tough new Air Force One paint job
Axios ^ | 12JUL18 | Mike Allen

Posted on 07/13/2018 7:18:19 PM PDT by vannrox

President Trump wants to update the paint job on the next version of Air Force One, ditching the iconic robin's-egg blue (which he calls a "Jackie Kennedy color") for a bolder, "more American" look.

The big picture: Trump rarely gets into the weeds of government negotiations. But he sat down in the Oval Office with Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg in February to personally hammer out the $4 billion deal for a pair of replacement 747s for use as Air Force One (the call sign for whatever Air Force plane the president is on).

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: af1; afone; airforce; airforceone; boeing; one; paint; trump
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To: Tzaphon; BTerclinger

41 posted on 07/13/2018 7:57:03 PM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: vannrox

Just paint two hands flipping the bird on the underside. Then order it flown in circles over Hillary’s house.


42 posted on 07/13/2018 7:59:59 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: BatGuano
get rid of that Robin’s egg color

I don't know. After more than half a century, that color, and the whole design, have now become an iconic American symbol.

Like the White House, it doesn't belong to its temporary occupant. It belongs to the people.

I vote No on changing it.

43 posted on 07/13/2018 8:00:33 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: vannrox
I think all black would be cool, but he only previous one I can find is Hugh Hefner's jet!


44 posted on 07/13/2018 8:00:44 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: EEGator
Would this have been President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho's soul plane?


45 posted on 07/13/2018 8:01:48 PM PDT by Jeff F
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To: EEGator

What kind of flags are those, 21 stars and 11 stripes? They look like a poor photoshop job.


46 posted on 07/13/2018 8:02:29 PM PDT by Guardian Sebastian (God Bless President Trump and Keep Him Safe)
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To: vannrox

I like the blue with the white stars sans the eagle head. A picture of an eagle flying can be put on the tail. The nose can be red.

Or the entire plane can have an American flag paint job from nose to tail.


47 posted on 07/13/2018 8:02:45 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: CodeToad

Love that, a big We the People!


48 posted on 07/13/2018 8:04:14 PM PDT by Guardian Sebastian (God Bless President Trump and Keep Him Safe)
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To: Wissa
Yeah, but as soon as the democrats regain the presidency they'd replace Melania with Harriet Tubman as the pinup girl.

Tubman, the Republican with a gun? That would rock!


49 posted on 07/13/2018 8:05:44 PM PDT by Yossarian
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To: vannrox

50 posted on 07/13/2018 8:10:20 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: CrazyIvan

I would go for that. What a great looking aircraft that would be.


51 posted on 07/13/2018 8:10:50 PM PDT by buffaloguy (Bond arms Cowboy)
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To: Yossarian

Indeed.
That would rock!


52 posted on 07/13/2018 8:12:32 PM PDT by Artemis Webb (Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
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To: The Antiyuppie
the timeless Raymond Loewy design.

You a relative?

Objectively, it sends a weak message, and the US has been on a losing streak ever since. The country needs something less pacifist. Truman had a bald eagle painted on the nose of his plane. Eisenhower went with a plain plane in air force markings with a presidential seal added near the door.

53 posted on 07/13/2018 8:13:34 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: adorno

If allowed to do it, Obama would’ve painted the Koran on the plane.

Liberals would now put a hammer&sicle on it
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NAH, they would have opted for the Rainbow Flag

STAND BY for the ‘demands’ to start...


54 posted on 07/13/2018 8:15:07 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""If bacon kills you and smoking kills you, How come you smoke bacon to cure it?")
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To: adorno

If allowed to do it, Obama would’ve painted the Koran on the plane.

Liberals would now put a hammer&sicle on it
========= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
NAH, they would have opted for the Rainbow Flag

STAND BY for the ‘demands’ to start...


55 posted on 07/13/2018 8:15:51 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""If bacon kills you and smoking kills you, How come you smoke bacon to cure it?")
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To: EEGator

Don’t be such a pussy scro!


56 posted on 07/13/2018 8:21:42 PM PDT by shotgun ( .)
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To: vannrox

He has a DOJ & FBI in clear Sedition and he wants a paint Job. Like Lou Dobbs said tonight, “When is the President going to get control of his own damn FBI & DOJ” Now is not the time for “Space Soldiers” or “Paint Jobs”.


57 posted on 07/13/2018 8:27:41 PM PDT by heights
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To: vannrox

Work with me here.

Nose art screaming eagle
Behind that lady liberty, crown, torch held high, dressed in hot pants and halter top with an ar-15 slung over her shoulder.


58 posted on 07/13/2018 8:37:31 PM PDT by buffaloguy (Bond arms Cowboy)
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To: vannrox

Space Force One


59 posted on 07/13/2018 8:41:50 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 ((((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")))))))
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To: vannrox

This design has become iconic.

I would rather it not change.

Can anyone imagine what Obama would have come up with.

Trump’s own plane was plain and clean cut.


60 posted on 07/13/2018 8:42:04 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Take a look out there folks. Can you see evidence of a Left Wing Hate Group, perhaps fascist too?)
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