It’s his new favorite thing.
Everyone knows that you’re not really somebody unless you have your own jumbo jet. Donald Trump already had a crappy vintage narrowbody Boeing 757 which he christened Trump Force One. And he also has a Cessna Citation, which is fast, but is the kind of small private jet any basic billionaire would own. Trump’s work plane as president, however — a 747 widebody which doubles as a White House with wings, is much more befitting a size for someone of such enormous self regard. But Air Force One wasn’t his, it was just a big plane he got to borrow from the U.S. government for four years at a time, and on top of that, he was stuck with its dated technology, more mundane interior, and a modest light blue paint job which doesn’t stand out on the tarmac.
Not anymore.
Now President Trump not only gets to fly in the posh new-money luxury to which he is accustomed, but aboard his very own Air Force One. On Wednesday morning, Trump took his inaugural flight in the 14-year-old $400 million Boeing 747-8i luxury jet which the Qatari royal family gave to him last year (after, Trump said, he expressed his admiration for the plane and asked the emir of Qatar if he could borrow one for a few years).
