Trump Wants A
Patriotic Makeover For Air Force One — And It's Awesome
ByJoseph Curl
@josephcurl
July 12, 2018
Everyone knows the color. It's robin's egg blue. But
President Trump wants to change that.
Trump, who has his own 757 jet dubbed "Trump Force
One," wants to overhaul America's most famous plane with a new color
scheme, according to Axios.
Trump wants a bolder, "more American" look.
The big picture: Trump rarely gets into the weeds of
government negotiations. But he sat down in the Oval Office with Boeing CEO
Dennis Muilenburg in February to personally hammer out the $4 billion deal for
a pair of replacement 747s for use as Air Force One (the call sign for whatever
aircraft the president is on).
Axios has learned that Trump had one specification for
the plane that could cause tension with the Air Force and surprise around the
world:
Trump wants to change the plane's signature
blue-and-white look that goes back 55 years, to a redesign of the presidential
aircraft by President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jackie Kennedy in the
early 1960s.
We’re told that Trump wants a color scheme that
"looks more American" and isn’t a "Jackie Kennedy color."
He doesn’t think the current blue (technically "luminous
ultramarine") represents the USA.
The president's preferred design is believed to include
red, white and blue.
Trump wants the presidential plane to be "larger and
more comfortable — more like the executive livery package on his personal plane
than the current, couch-like sleeping configuration aboard Air Force One."
True, Air Force One is iconic, known the world over. But
Trump is all about image, so it makes sense that he'd want the presidential
plane to be, well, more American.
And "Luminous aquamarine" isn't exactly the
color of America.
USA Today
put out a slew of possible redesigns.
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