When an emergency slide on Trump’s new Air Force One deployed on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday, delaying President Donald Trump’s flight, the president was asked if he was sure that his new presidential jet was safe to fly.
Trump’s reply: “Yeah, I am, or I wouldn’t be on it.”
Trump’s latest addition to the presidential fleet, a VC-25B Bridge aircraft, is meant as an interim jet to bridge the gap between the older VC-25A planes from the 1990s and Boeing’s forthcoming but long-delayed VC-25B presidential jets.
Since Trump’s first flight on the Qatari luxury jet on July 1, the new Air Force One has sparked security...
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