The plane Trump now flies in reveals much about his actual wealth

[Major Nikon]

Trump's 757 hasn't been flown in 4 years and getting it airworthy again is going to take a shitton of cash.

He's currently flying in a 1997 Cessna 750 Citation X which is about $2-3 million. It only seats about 6 people, the lav is quite small, and the interior height is only 5' 7".

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/19/politics/trump-757-repairs-gold-plated-glory-days/index.html

People who have anywhere near as much money as Trump claims to have do not fly on a 20 yr old Citation X. They fly on a Global Express or a Gulfstream 700 or a Boeing Business Jet.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

1. I want him degraded to riding a bicycle and seen shooting people the bird....

while riding down 5th Avenue, down Pennsylvania Ave. and around Marred-A-Lago.

Not many people get fired from Air Force One.


KY.......

[Treefrog]

10. How much you want to bet that the idiot can't ride a bike? I'd put money that he can't!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

15. Agree, but perhaps a three-wheeler for about 10-yards.

KY.........

[dchill]

45. A Big Wheel!

[SledDriver]

28. This is more his speed

[ybbor]

33. 😂 Lol

Now that’s funny!

[smirkymonkey]

34. +1000

That's about his speed. What a LOSER!

[I_UndergroundPanther]

37. Hehehehe..

Putt putt goes his pasty butt.

[Major Nikon]

53. Let's be honest. He can't walk a gentle incline without a spotter

[DBoon]

59. It would be amusing to see him try

I would feel sorry for the bicycle though

[alphafemale]

65. I have thought this too.

Learning to ride a bike generally requires some spectacular and embarrassing fails at first.

You can't learn to ride a bike through cheating.

[NYC Liberal]

16. I'd prefer ...

[jrthin]

18. Now, that's a ride that he deserves have.

[WyattKansas]

26. Just strap his fat ass onto a bigly (amout of thrust to launch him) bottle rocket.

And light the fuse...

And may the shit pieces fly onto and cover all those who covered up his crimes while he was squatting in the White House.

[swimboy]

42. I want him wearing a paper hat

and slinging fryer baskets.

[gratuitous]

2. Wait til you see what he's driving these days

[Clash City Rocker]

5. LOL. Well, he was the Yugo of presidents.

[ZonkerHarris]

9. Do NOT insult the Yugo like that!

[NYC Liberal]

17. I'd say he's more like the Dale

A total sham.

[alphafemale]

66. Yugo if you push it! nt

[IzzaNuDay]

3. How to offload a 757

What a fire sale that would be!
Or send it to the boneyard. No reputable museum would want it.

[Celerity]

7. Park it next to that bullshit xian ark in KY

[demtenjeep]

14. no one is going to want it

he put way too much $ to make it his gaudy representation.

it cost way more than it is worth

[Sgent]

19. Depending on the records

and how easily it could be converted back, 757's are in very short supply. Its the largest single aisle airplane and has the best economics / range for point to point flying. The only thing kinda comparable is the somewhat smaller A321, and the Trump plane will have low cycles / hours.

That said, it still won't be very much compared to purchase price or his supposed net worth.

[luvtheGWN]

43. Apparently there were 1,000 of them built

in 1991, and only a few are still flying. It's basically worthless.

[Aviation Pro]

52. It can get in and out of high altitude airports

Not worthless.

[luvtheGWN]

55. What's the depreciation on a 30-yr-old plane?

Not disagreeing with you, BTW!

According to a recent report on CNN, the plane is currently minus an engine, and to fix it would cost a significant sum. However, if the plane was stripped of all its 24 carat gold covering everything not fabric or leather, perhaps that might pay for an engine repair.....

[LiberalFighter]

74. And install needed seats.

I wouldn't trust a plane that would have that much modication.

[IzzaNuDay]

78. Kamala's plane is a 757-200 (AF2)

But as compared to 45's plane, it is well taken care of. I am really surprised that 45 did not attempt to finagle the government to maintain it while he was pResident.

[calimary]

36. Welcome to DU, IzzaNuDay!

Why doesn't he have limbaugh's estate buy him a new one?

Or the Mercers?

Or Charles Koch?

Or whoever is dumb enough to continue throwing money at him. He'll probably make his chumps pay - and pay - and keep on payin.' I'm sure they can well afford it.

[IzzaNuDay]

77. Thanks calimary!

I agree, there are plenty of suckers who want him to fly that plane again. They'll pay!

[jmowreader]

58. Which is why it's going in the Trump Lie-berry

[Xavier Breath]

4. This is probably closer to reality.

[A HERETIC I AM]

8. ...

[calimary]

40. NO! Not that precious little treasure!

NO NO NO! That's too good for him.

And he wouldn't appreciate it anyway.

[mobeau69]

6. Interesting read. What a shallow pos he is.

[IcyPeas]

11. He oughta become an evangelical preacher..

They always seem to get nice jets... paid for by their idiot congregations.

[demtenjeep]

12. money suck

couldn't happen to a better thing

[Celerity]

13. A rapidly ageing and devaluing shithole, just like the jet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

21. trump cannot afford his old plane now

[A HERETIC I AM]

22. I always thought his airplane(s) were a key to uncovering his con.

And I say that because ......

Planes need fuel and maintenance and have landing fees and ramp fees, NONE of which will continue if the providers get stiffed. We aren’t talking about a Glass fitter in Atlantic City here, or an architect in New Jersey, we are talking fuel and other costs which can not be put off.

If you own a plane, particularly a large one, and stiff a fuel purveyor, word gets around, and you won’t be able to fuel your aircraft for anything other than cash ANYWHERE, your AMEX Platinum card not withstanding.

So here’s how I see it;

There are credit lines available, most of the time. He could buy $50,000 worth of Jet-A on credit and the vendor gets paid, fine...no problem. But how does that line of credit get paid?

By another line of credit? Perhaps. And so on and so forth, until someone somewhere is backstopping him, keeping the whole house of cards from collapsing.

And who was that? Who is it that was finally eating those bills, to satisfy the line of credit that kept that fucking thing flying?

I think I know.

BTW, There were stories early in his administration that his boys, Tweedle Dee Trumpy and Tweedle Dum Trumpy used his 757 numerous times, but this is the first I saw that it had been parked up the road from Manhattan, and not at some maintenance facility or at LaGuardia.

So the cash flow keeping his Boeing flying has clearly dried up.

Good. As demtenjeep said above, no one is going to buy it as is, BUT...I suppose he could unload it onto some Saudi dipshit looking to wash a bunch of cash.

[bigendian]

23. Cognizant

[Hassin Bin Sober]

24. Didn't he float the idea of using it as AF1 at the beginning of his admin?

I’m sure he would have loved to get the US Air Force to pay for upgrades.

[A HERETIC I AM]

27. I think I remember that story, yes....

If I am not mistaken, he also floated the idea of his personal pilot flying the 747 AF1 and making him head of the FAA, neither of which materialized, obviously .

What a complete asshole he is.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

30. Jesus. I forgot about the FAA thing.

[calimary]

41. And also, didn't he float the idea of repainting AF1 in that ghastly color scheme

he used on his one-time personal plane?

[A HERETIC I AM]

46. Yes

Well, it wasn’t necessarily the same as his plane, but it had all the class of a Trumpy paint scheme

A model was given to him and he took it to Mar-A-Lago

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9263061/amp/Trump-gets-specially-painted-Air-Force-One-spirits-model-away-Mar-Lago.html



https://apnews.com/article/9547a38731a8435aa771757cea6ca153

[Beetwasher.]

29. Brilliant Post

[A HERETIC I AM]

32. Thanks!

Very kind of you to say.

[paleotn]

49. As always, follow the money.

[Blue Owl]

25. I bet that fat fuck modified it

So the entire back cabin is his lavatory

[Generic Brad]

31. Shouldn't he be flying coach on Spirit Air?

[Hassler]

35. A double wing crop duster is in his future.

[Bo Zarts]

38. But the Citation-X is FAST!

I flew a Citation-X from Detroit to the Cayman Islands for a magazine article back in the mid-90s. No problem maintaining the high side of Mach 0.91. Atlanta Center had to give us vectors around a Learjet 35 that we were overtaking. I never liked to push a Learjet over about Mach 0.78. A Boeing 737-300, for comparison, plods along at Mach 0.74.

[Major Nikon]

56. The Global 7500 will go faster than the older X

It will also go twice as far with a helluva lot more room.

[Bo Zarts]

68. But at $73 million for a green "airplane," Donnie can't touch a Global 7500.

But with that wing sweep and power, the Global 7500/8000 is almost as fast as a Citation-X. Mmo for the 7500/8000 is stated as Mach 0.925, while the Citation-X is Mach 0.935. IMO, a .01 delta in Mach numbers is insignificant. The big differences are price, range, and the fit & finish.

I know someone with a Global Express and a Gulfstream 650, which are used for long international flights (and transcon when the seats are needed). For puddle-jumping within the US, he has two BAe 800s.

BTW: I flew both the Citation X and Gulfstream 5 with test pilots from Cessna and Gulfstream, respectively. Both are certificated to a maximum altitude of 51,000 feet. I took the G-5 from takeoff at Savannah straight to 51,000 feet. Then I did steep turns at FL510! On the Citation-X flight, we were weight restricted and never made FL510. The G-5 had a very wide, comfortable spread between high-speed and low-speed buffet boundries at 51,000 .. the Citation-X had a very narrow "coffin corner."

[Major Nikon]

69. IIRC the older Citation X is just a touch slower than the newer ones

We cruise anywhere from .78 to .82 in the Challenger 6xx series planes I fly. They are slower than some other bizjets, but the clients love them because there's a lot more room in the back. Pilots love them because there's also a lot more room in the front. I met a billionaire at recurrent that owns and operates his own 601. John Travolta and Oprah also had one at one time. You just don't see too many filthy rich people flying in planes you have to bend over to walk inside unless they are frugal and care more about operating costs than convenience and appearance. That definitely doesn't describe Trump. I suspect it isn't going to be that much longer before everything of value Trump owns is going to be repossessed and he will be flying charter or perhaps even scheduled airline.

[NoMoreRepugs]

39. Strap an Acme rocket to his fat ass.

[oldsoftie]

44. He can fit thru the door??

[Marcuse]

47. He's obviously cutting down on the cost of travel and sycophants.

Link to tweet

?s=21

[paleotn]

48. Like downsizing to the DC-3 in the movie Major League?

Not quite that far, but still, after flying around in the absolute palace that is Air Force 1 for 4 years, that's gotta burn his buns.

[orleans]

50. there's a pic of him trying to step up on the mini steps

i wanted to see a pic of the plane but this pic is good enuf
https://dailyguidenetwork.com/trump-now-flying-1997-model-cessna-citation-x-jet-like-average-ceo/

[jmowreader]

51. How we know Trump is a shitty businessman

A good businessman who has a 757 and lots of rich friends would have let them use the jet while he was in the White House. He could have charged just enough to cover expenses. The important thing is it would have kept the plane in the air, so that when he was able to use it again it would be in good shape.

A terrible businessman lets a multimillion dollar asset that requires constant use sit and rot.

[Major Nikon]

57. I'm not sure how much he actually flew the 757

He bought it at a time when the airlines were ditching them because they were too expensive to operate. If Trump really had all the billions he claimed, he wouldn't have been buying a 2nd hand obsolete jet with run out engines to begin with.

[BlueIdaho]

54. I won't be happy until he's riding the dog.

A 1997 Cessna is still above his station in life.

[druidity33]

63. Hey, whoa now...

that's just not fair to the dog.

[BlueIdaho]

70. The dog Greyhound bus

[Joinfortmill]

60. We may know soon.

[Mopar151]

61. There's an ass for every seat! "Fast Eddie"

Somebody, somewhere, has an inside line on a cheap lease for the engines, knows some A&Ps, and is shrewd enough to find charter customers'. Such a person don't pay list, not never!

[DFW]

62. Meanwhile, I'm so rich, I take a different plane every time I fly somewhere.

And I'm so cheap, I don't even pay a cent for their maintenance once I land and get off the plane.

[Vinca]

64. And to make matters worse, instead of gold plating everything is covered with

gold-colored latex enamel found only at the dollar store.

[dalton99a]

67. Anyone who paid attention in 2015-2016 knew he was a con man.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

71. He should walk.

Golf cart allowed for more than 5 miles.

[yellowcanine]

72. He would be better off flying business class commercial.

It would be cheaper and more comfortable. Of course then he would have to mix with the little people and deal with people flipping him off constantly.

[Major Nikon]

73. It would be cheaper for sure

Given his financial condition it may soon be the only flying option available to him.

The reason people choose non-scheduled services is because of time and convenience. Show up whenever you want, bypass security, and leave immediately upon arrival.

[LiberalFighter]

75. Does he pay rent for keeping it there?

What happens when he gets behind?

[Major Nikon]

76. I'm sure he does

However, it's also notable that it's not in a hangar. You'd need one big hangar to park that thing inside, but with as much money as he claims to have that wouldn't be a problem.