In January 2004 I traveled on Thai Air from New York to Bangkok without a refueling stop in Tokyo, Beining, or Taipei. Seventeen hours in an Airbus jet liner. The flight was half-full and I colonized a starboard bank of economy seats. Five meals coupled with pony bottles of Chardonnay only speaking to the stewards and stewardesses. I can't sleep on planes and watched movies and occasionally looked out the window into the eternal darkness of the Arctic winter.
I was very comfortable.
I have always loved long trans-global flights. As long as the plane doesn't crash, nothing bad can happen while in air. Peace and relative quiet as long as your seat is located before the engines.
Last week Trump traveled to visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the Arab Emirates. All American allies. He thanked the dictatorships for their support in the Eternal War. They reciprocated by signing defense and AI contracts for hundreds of billions of dollars. The Orange Messiah was treated as a valued friend and he marveled at the luxury architecture and wealth of the various royal palaces, calling them ,perfecto' and recognized that their wealth was on another scale of American billionaires. Power and wealth. Envy. He was the president of the most powerful nation on the planet and he was stuck with Air Force 1 and lived in the White House. It just didn't seem right to the Messiah of MAGA and the Qatari monarch offered his friend a $400 million 747 for his personal use on his homeward journey to the USA.
The Secret Service warned that the twelve year-old plane was unsafe for secure travel and that an upgrade on security features might cost a half- equipped with the proper security features of Air Force 1. The Donald was not dissuaded by that argument nor his aides informing Trump that accepting the gift was in violation of federal law.
47 had come said that he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and nothing would hapen to him. He was probably right about that. The 216 pounder has gotten away with a myriad of crimes and hasn't served a day in jail or prison, but he mijght have protested, "Bullshit. I know that. It's not for me. It's for America in thanks for our decades of friendship."
They arrived at the tarmac and departed on good old Air Force 1.
Donald was not happy. Like me I suspect that he can't sleep on planes and he spent the long flight venting out his social truth wrath on Bruce Springstein who attacked the MAGA leader on a European tour.
Trump fumed that the rocker that he needs to ‘KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the country’.
Ever restless he said Taylor Swift was not hot anymore.
His staff had to hear it over and over and over again.
"Can't anymore roofie him?" Their eyes asked easch other like the last supporters of Hitler in the Bunker.
Thirteen hours of Hell. I am so gald I wasn't on that flight.
This weekend has been quiet, but the axs are out for the Supreme Court and the six members of the GOP who voted against his budget. Caveat cana or Beware of the Doge in Latin. No one is safe, until we are safe again.
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