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Despairing Trump now hoping to survive 'the purge to come': Opinion
Trump’s Flying Monuments and the Politics of OwnershipA Plane Is Not the StoryTrump is presenting a luxury aircraft gifted by the Qatari royal family as if it were a new Air Force One, then talking about painting the rest of the fleet to match it. The source text frames this as a spectacle around a controversial gift and alleged corruption. That is the surface. The deeper story is not aviation. It is power behaving like property.Who Actually DecidesThe institutional power here sits with the presidency and the machinery around it. Trump is not merely decorating a private taste profile; he is…
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