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'Gold plating throughout': Reporters dazed by tour of Trump's 'five-star' Air Force One
A Flying Court, Built with Public MoneyThe Real Owner of the StoryThe source text is about a plane, but the political fact is simpler: the person with power is Donald Trump. He wanted gold trim, gold-plated details, and a presidential aircraft that performs wealth as authority. The Air Force spent about $400 million turning a Qatari 747-8 into a “flying White House,” and the public is now asked to admire the result as if extravagance were statecraft.Who DecidedThis did not happen by accident, and it did not happen because of “design requests” floating in a vacuum. Trump set the aesthetic…
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