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How would they bring this new plane up to that standard

Spoilers: They absolutely will not be bringing this death trap up to the current plane's standards.

This will either site on a tarmac largely forgotten about for four years, at which point Trump will try and off-load it (if he hasn't completely forgotten he owns it). Or it'll become one of those "never going to be finished" government vanity projects that becomes an excuse to write blank checks to Boeing for billing statements littered with "Headlight Fluid: $4k, Crank Shaft Lengthening Service: $20k" line items.

Absolute best case scenario, someone in the administration actually tries to fly in this thing before the term is complete. And we all get to laugh (or cry, depending on who it lands on) on reading the consequences.

It seems that they’re just trying to appease a stupid man who thinks like a dodgy car salesman, and thus is happy to accept big dumb bribes

That's who Americans believe is best able to run our country. We have been kicking and screaming for the last 40 years to have the US run like a business. And what other business best exemplifies the US than Used Car Dealership?

What's the benefit to the nation?

Why do you even jokingly use a framework in which you're assuming the current US government does anything "for the nation" instead of themselves?

And also, they're just gonna ward off attacks with, uhm... gilded smoothie machines and massaging chairs.

A white elephant.

I wonder at what price point it becomes worth it to buy his swasticars and chop them up for parts. That's assuming that the parts aren't so poorly made that no one would want them. I have some nifty ideas for a battery pack that big, which would probably burn down my house.

EMP shielding. Nuclear explosions release an absolutely insane amount of electromagnetic energy and it fries electronics. This is actually where the first EMP was observed - a high altitude nuclear test fried a bunch of electronics. The idea is that it needs to be able to keep flying even if a nuclear blast goes off even quite some distance away. There's obviously no way to actually nuke proof a plane, it would get vaporized or knocked out of the sky if it were close to the epicenter.

I think they have systems in place to stop EMPs from affecting and potentially taking down AirForce One, and nuclear blasts create EMPs that if left otherwise unshielded would do exactly that.

That's just the shit they are willing to tell you about.

I legit would not be surprised if there was a secret ejection capsule for the president and some staff that could rocket out of the plane and get caught in mid-air by one of the escort planes.

i gonna make an assumption here and say probably EMP resistance?

I had to do a double take. I thought your comment might have had an issue with keming…

not even asking for new items, is also Used and expensive. even his older jets/planes he has is very old.

If you don't like it, why would you take it?

But number more huge!

As a US taxpayer, I don't find that very amusing. Well, other than the part where Trump dies.

I just hope there are enough people working in the section tasked with inspecting the plane who hate Dump's fucking guts, so the schedule gets drawn out indefinitely. "Oh yes sir boss man, we made good progress today on that plane. Got at least 3 screws checked for structural soundness! Maybe tomorrow we'll have time to check out like 5 more."