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It took me a second to 'get' this but then HAHAHAHAHA (Original Post) Siwsan Mar 2024 OP
😂👍👏 MiHale Mar 2024 #1
Good Morning!! Siwsan Mar 2024 #5
Freezing here too...windy. MiHale Mar 2024 #10
Good morning! mgardener Mar 2024 #21
I did not see it at first, either! ProudMNDemocrat Mar 2024 #2
He really can't afford a private plane anymore Delmette2.0 Mar 2024 #16
Recall when HE accused Joe of campaigning from his basement. ProudMNDemocrat Mar 2024 #17
I don't think he can afford a pilot either. Ligyron Mar 2024 #41
Is that a for sale tag on the cockpit window? pazzyanne Mar 2024 #34
It looks like a parking ticket. Delmette2.0 Mar 2024 #44
That IS very funny!!!! PCIntern Mar 2024 #3
lol BlueWaveNeverEnd Mar 2024 #4
Headed for the impound lot and then.... Think. Again. Mar 2024 #6
I still don't see it and/or understand it,,,, KarenS Mar 2024 #7
Boot on the nose gear Aviation Pro Mar 2024 #9
Like when they boot a car, then tow it and impound it? KarenS Mar 2024 #12
And what's that on the windshield Fritz Walter Mar 2024 #20
That would the ticket they slap on your windshield SCantiGOP Mar 2024 #40
Signed: Officer Tish James peppertree Mar 2024 #53
Thanks for this. ShazzieB Mar 2024 #47
That's a wheel immobilizer ("car boot") on the jet's tire, used to immobilize illegally parked vehicles. sop Mar 2024 #11
Also parking ticket under windshield wiper! Fla Dem Mar 2024 #14
I did not see that either. Good eyes. ProudMNDemocrat Mar 2024 #18
I missed that!! KarenS Mar 2024 #19
That is funny! niyad Mar 2024 #22
Ha ha, just noticed the ticket when you mentioned it. a kennedy Mar 2024 #25
Nice catch. underpants Mar 2024 #27
I prefer to think it's a for sale ticket. n/t pazzyanne Mar 2024 #35
I prefer to think it's a for sale sign. pazzyanne Mar 2024 #39
Is that real? twodogsbarking Mar 2024 #8
Likely his plane would be seized last because he uses it for campaigning Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2024 #13
And it's probably mortgaged to the nines...... lastlib Mar 2024 #36
Hmmm. Last to go would be his fast-food hamburger coupons me thinks. FailureToCommunicate Mar 2024 #51
No A HERETIC I AM Mar 2024 #29
...... twodogsbarking Mar 2024 #31
It almost looks like he got "booted" with one of his golden sneakers! TheRickles Mar 2024 #15
One dares to dream! Does it look like there is a serious gap/dent on that niyad Mar 2024 #23
It does look like that nose cone isn't fitted properly! A HERETIC I AM Mar 2024 #30
No, I mean the three under the window, coming down by the nose cone. niyad Mar 2024 #42
Ah! Pitot tubes. Most likely A HERETIC I AM Mar 2024 #45
They don't look anything like that. I am talking about the two directly niyad Mar 2024 #52
lol. get the meaning. literaly. jet aint going anywhere . AllaN01Bear Mar 2024 #24
Flight risk Emile Mar 2024 #26
Hilarious gademocrat7 Mar 2024 #28
I wonder what a used 757 goes for these days. Liberal In Texas Mar 2024 #32
Six to ten million. Or according to Trump 500 million. Emile Mar 2024 #38
That one's going to be tricky to sell jmowreader Mar 2024 #46
Good one. Would love for that thing to be grounded. I know it wouldn't shut up though. onecaliberal Mar 2024 #33
Trust that 3auld6phart Mar 2024 #37
Rep Sean Casten Emile Mar 2024 #43
K&R orangecrush Mar 2024 #48
K&R uponit7771 Mar 2024 #49
Pay up jerk! oasis Mar 2024 #50

Siwsan

(27,855 posts)
5. Good Morning!!
Tue Mar 19, 2024, 08:25 AM
Mar 2024

Hope all is going well in your part of the state. It's FREEZING in Flint. Spring arrives at 11:06 pm tonight. Friday we could get 3" of snow. Fingers crossed we don't get one of those freak Easter snow storms!! I'm keeping an eye on the forecast.

MiHale

(13,082 posts)
10. Freezing here too...windy.
Tue Mar 19, 2024, 08:34 AM
Mar 2024

But during the warm spell we got tons done in the garden mostly clean up but still puts us ahead. I can’t wait til your flowers start coming up, your pictures are always so pretty and gives me the knowledge that in a couple weeks it’ll be up here. Signs of spring!

mgardener

(2,376 posts)
21. Good morning!
Tue Mar 19, 2024, 09:24 AM
Mar 2024

10 degrees here.
Wet snow tonight.
Last week I LOOKED at my summer clothes, glad I did not get them out.

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,950 posts)
2. I did not see it at first, either!
Tue Mar 19, 2024, 08:21 AM
Mar 2024

But now I do. Ground the plane so he cannot go anywhere nor charter a plane to get from Point A to Point B.

Delmette2.0

(4,506 posts)
16. He really can't afford a private plane anymore
Tue Mar 19, 2024, 08:51 AM
Mar 2024

He should campaign on Zoom.

I think his followers will understand.

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,950 posts)
17. Recall when HE accused Joe of campaigning from his basement.
Tue Mar 19, 2024, 08:55 AM
Mar 2024

During the height of COVID?

TSF will complain he cannot campaign because he is BROKE! So is the RNC!.

I guess no big and splashy party for him.

Ligyron

(8,006 posts)
41. I don't think he can afford a pilot either.
Tue Mar 19, 2024, 11:33 AM
Mar 2024

At first it looked to me like Ivanka was driving that rig.

Then I realized she probably hates him and would certainly be smart enough to know that parking brake thingie was on.

She might even know it's a "boot".

KarenS

(5,050 posts)
12. Like when they boot a car, then tow it and impound it?
Tue Mar 19, 2024, 08:35 AM
Mar 2024

I saw it but thought that's how a plane is tied down or stored,,,, sheesh :


Thanks!!

ShazzieB

(22,695 posts)
47. Thanks for this.
Tue Mar 19, 2024, 03:16 PM
Mar 2024

I've heard about those boots but never seen one, so I would have never figured this out.

sop

(18,856 posts)
11. That's a wheel immobilizer ("car boot") on the jet's tire, used to immobilize illegally parked vehicles.
Tue Mar 19, 2024, 08:34 AM
Mar 2024

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
13. Likely his plane would be seized last because he uses it for campaigning
Tue Mar 19, 2024, 08:40 AM
Mar 2024

He's likely to lose 40 Wall Street first and some steps down the line (not likely needed) his tRump Tower, Mar-a-Lago second last and plane last.

lastlib

(28,369 posts)
36. And it's probably mortgaged to the nines......
Tue Mar 19, 2024, 09:59 AM
Mar 2024

The encumbrances on it will mean jumping through a lot of hoops to seize it. So pop another batch of popcorn--we're gonna be here awhile............

niyad

(132,991 posts)
23. One dares to dream! Does it look like there is a serious gap/dent on that
Tue Mar 19, 2024, 09:27 AM
Mar 2024

seam at the nose? And what are those three round things going down the side?

A HERETIC I AM

(24,876 posts)
30. It does look like that nose cone isn't fitted properly!
Tue Mar 19, 2024, 09:46 AM
Mar 2024

And those round things, you mean below the “M”? Looks to me like they are access hatches. The long looking silvery thing to the rear is almost assuredly the latch to open a baggage bay.

niyad

(132,991 posts)
52. They don't look anything like that. I am talking about the two directly
Tue Mar 19, 2024, 05:57 PM
Mar 2024

below the reddish "parking ticket" stuck in the window, and the darker one a bit further down and to the left, between the two dark lines.

jmowreader

(53,261 posts)
46. That one's going to be tricky to sell
Tue Mar 19, 2024, 02:21 PM
Mar 2024

Most people who want to buy a B757 want to haul freight in it, and stripping out Trump’s interior plus painting it white will cost more than it’s worth. They could conceivably sell it as a business jet, but people looking for airliner-derived business jets - both Airbus and Boeing make them - are looking for intercontinental range the 757 does not have. IIRC we calculated back in the days we thought Trump was going to flee the country that he’d never make any country without an extradition treaty from LaGuardia without landing in England…where, of course, Scotland Yard would be waiting to grab him and send him back strapped to an airlift pallet.

The best use of Trump’s jet is as a source of spare parts. He’s got two low-time engines on it and his hydraulic pumps work, so why not?

 

onecaliberal

(36,594 posts)
33. Good one. Would love for that thing to be grounded. I know it wouldn't shut up though.
Tue Mar 19, 2024, 09:54 AM
Mar 2024

Emile

(42,552 posts)
43. Rep Sean Casten
Tue Mar 19, 2024, 11:38 AM
Mar 2024

The presumptive GOP nominee for President is desperate for $464M (and counting) which he cannot personally access. That fact alone makes him a massive national security risk; any foreign adversary seeking to buy a President knows the price.

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