• Personally, I don’t care on that front. If they remotely turn it off in the air, good. Trump’s taking it with him when he leaves, and no other president is likely be stupid enough to trust it even if he didn’t.

      Now, the fact that it’s probably just one giant listening device… I guess I’d be concerned about, but they’re not likely to learn much from listening to Senile Saddam ramble nonsense while he gropes the flight attendants.

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      I can only see one point of Trump doing this deal.

      Spite.

      He is still pissed off that his new livery design won’t be part of the VC-25Bs, and he will now have his own jet that will be managed outside of normal channels, just so he can get a few photo ops as the first president to fly a private 747-800, that will probably be painted in the livery that he approved.