Showing posts with label Air Force One. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Air Force One. Show all posts
Friday, July 3, 2026
Monday, June 9, 2025
Different parties, same senility: Aging Trump stumbles up the stairs of Air Force One
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Monday, May 12, 2025
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Trump just now checking the gold inventory at Fort Knox for some reason
“We’re going to go to Fort Knox, the fabled Fort Knox, to make sure the gold is there,” Trump said Wednesday on Air Force One.
Thursday, July 18, 2024
Biden was apparently last vaccinated against COVID-19 last October but has come down with it anyway for the third time
The Hill reports here:
President Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, marking the third time in the past two years the president has tested positive for the virus. ... Biden was seen boarding Air Force One, not wearing a mask, and told reporters he feels “good.”
One law for me, another for thee.
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Friday, February 17, 2017
CNBC and WaPo just plain lie: Cost of Air Force One alone under Obama was $577 million
But here's CNBC lying through its teeth, relying on WaPo lying through its teeth, putting the cost at less than 17% of that:
Trump's time in office could cost taxpayers "hundreds of millions of dollars or more," topping the estimated $97 million of travel-related expenses during the Obama administration, the Post reported.
Trump can fly to Mar-a-Lago and back every weekend for 9.2 years before he spends what Obama spent flying everywhere.
Monday, November 7, 2016
In NH Trump mentions Obama is using Air Force One to campaign for Hillary . . .
. . . but never mentions it's at your expense.
Obama is illegally using tax dollars to electioneer.
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Thursday, July 9, 2015
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Obama Milks Air Force One and Marine One To Toy Shop
Obama went to Pennsylvania to talk up his tax hike, slam Republicans, and then do a little toy shopping. Keith Koffler's bullshit detector went off, here, when he found out Marvin Nicholson, the caddy, was carrying packages on their return to the White House marked K'nex, where Obama spoke.
Monday, April 30, 2012
Flashback March 2009: It Really Bugged Obama to be Called 'Socialist'
So much so, the new president called back to The New York Times after he was interviewed on Air Force One.
From Joe Curl, here:
President Obama was so concerned that he had appeared to dismiss a question from New York Times reporters about whether he was a socialist that he called the newspaper from the Oval Office to clarify his policies.
"It was hard for me to believe that you were entirely serious about that socialist question," he told reporters, who had interviewed the president aboard Air Force One on Friday.
Presidents don't call newspapers. Newspapers call the president.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
End Obama's Big Fat 'Tax Break' For Air Force One: $35 Million a Year
From Rich Karlgaard, here:
[T]he annual carrying costs and fuel costs of Obama’s big fat jet comes to $100 million, give or take. My round number is supported by the National Taxpayer’s Union finding that Air Force One costs $181,000 an hour to operate, all in. Obama would have to fly 552 hours to hit $100 million-a-year by this calculation. However you analyze it, the cost of Air Force One comes in at around $100 million.
Gee, wouldn’t you call that a form of compensation? The president of the U.S. makes $400,000 in salary but he gets a perk that is worth $100 million a year. Cool! I’m not even counting the annual costs of his other perks — ground transportation in limos, free digs at the White House, the parties, the First Lady’s trips, and so on.
Just one perk, Air Force One, is worth $100 million a year.
You are right, Mr. President. Let’s end this tax break for corporate jets. Which means, you pay up, Big Guy! You owe the IRS roughly $35 million a year for your personal jet.
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