Ukrainian aircraft maker tweets Air Force One offer to Trump

[inanna]

Source: Reuters

Wed Dec 7, 2016 | 10:21am EST

The Ukrainian producer of the world's largest aircraft has offered to build a plane for Donald Trump after the U.S. president-elect said an order with Boeing Co for a new Air Force One should be scrapped.

"@realDonaldTrump May be it is better to consider #Antonov aircraft as Air Force One?," Ukrainian state-owned firm Antonov tweeted directly to Trump on Wednesday.

There was no immediate response from the future president, who is known for his unpredictable tweets.

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Antonov's offer appeared to have been in jest, but new orders from the United States or elsewhere would provide a welcome boost to its fortunes.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-antonov-trump-idUSKBN13W21F?il=0

[Wounded Bear]

1. Wouldn't that be appropriate....

[doc03]

2. That's what we need an Air Force One made in an old Soviet block country,

a Hugo with wings.

[brooklynite]

9. I think you meant "Yugo"...

[doc03]

12. I think you are right. A guy I worked with bought one of those

and bragged about how cheap it was, I think it ran like three months. Was the East German car a Trivet or something?

[COLGATE4]

13. Trabant

[lark]

16. OK, now I want him to buy one of these.

Of course it won't happen unless Putin's also getting a cut, so guess I can stop hoping that he will just fall out of the air and stop some of our misery. If Pence was also on the plane, 1000% better.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

17. I knew a guy who was a sales manager at a Yugo dealer.

On days they would move the new cars for snow removal he said "1/3rd started, 1/3rd needed to be jumped, and 1/3rd just weren't starting no matter what and had to be pushed" Brand new cars.

[mainer]

3. And it comes complete with Russian listening devices

So they can hear everything that's said aboard it.

[doc03]

4. All the Russians have to do is read Twitter now nt

[47of74]

5. 70 Year Old Man Baby Fornicate Face Orange Toxic Megacolon sure keeps them up to date.

[doc03]

6. Now he is the Time Asshole of the year nt

[47of74]

7. Yeah I saw that this morning.

Ugh.

[ToxMarz]

14. I'm going to just ignore Godwin's rule

and point out the Hitler was also Time's Man (Person) of the Year in 1938, and we know how that worked out.

[Turbineguy]

8. He'll have to get permission.

From Putin.

[VMA131Marine]

10. I don't know....

One of these as AF1 might not be so bad. Besides it needs to be big to carry around Trump's ego:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya

[Hassin Bin Sober]

18. Lol. I just watched part of this dumb movie last night

https://m.

[Kotya]

19. These Antonovs are massive aircraft.

The U.S. military leases them out from time to time. They're bigger than anything we've got.

[VMA131Marine]

20. They.......?

There's only one!

[Kotya]

22. Yep. You're right about the 225. There is only one.

The slightly smaller but still massive An-124 is more common (and still larger than our C-5 Galaxy). These are the ones we lease out now and again.

[VMA131Marine]

23. Technically, there is a second An-225

but it was never completed for lack of funding. There have been attempts to find the money to finish it, thus doubling the fleet size to 2.

[Blue Idaho]

11. Trump is known for handing out fake diamond cufflinks

And bogus Rollex watches. Why does he get to decide what kind of airplane the real Presidents will ride on after he finishes disgracing the office of the President?

[lark]

15. Unless the offer is from Crimea, it would be rejected out of hand.

Orange assface is so in hock to Russia, he'd do nothing to help Ukraine, which Putin is determined to take back. Of course the 4billion is just another typical lie about someone or some company which doesn't perform fellatio on him daily. I bet he's fully aware of the price, but either way doesn't give a shit. It's all about hurting the "enemy" who is anyone who doesn't LOVE him or at least express admiration for him.

[renegade000]

21. Next they're going to invite him to take an aerial tour of the Donbass... n/t