I don’t think there were. And I would have thought Trump wasn’t even into balloons that much after the Baby Trump balloon thing.
This is getting muddled. The “Air Force” in “Air Force One” is about who’s flying the plane and what force it’s under. A helicopter is Air Force One if it’s an Air Force helicopter flown by an Air Force pilot. A plane could be Marine One if it’s a pilot and plane from the Marine Corps. Any type of aircraft, any force, same naming convention. You were right that no aircraft is called any of these things without a president aboard.
From what I’ve read on the various news sites, apparently he stayed on script and it was pretty unremarkable.
I’m just waiting for the MSM accolades about how he acted “presidential” because we now live in a time where the bar is so low that as long as he can make it though a prepared speech without, I dunno, shitting all over himself or something it’s considered a grand accomplishment.
something about how america has never been as great as it is today (ie. as great as he has made it.) to which there were rallying cries of “usa, usa, usa” and “trump, trump, trump.”
so pretty much what would be political if a previous president had the same speech, while he was the model of restraint.
Indeed - like I said before, simply making it through a prepared speech is now treated like some sort of newsworthy accomplishment. That’s how low the bar is now.
Donald Trump’s “Salute to America” speech could have easily devolved into chants of “Lock her up!”—but instead he proved that he could, in fact, read a Teleprompter. And read he did. It was a speech that had all the excitement of an excerpt from one of Bill O’Reilly’s YA history books. It was middle-school story time from hell.
The most honest reporting I’ve seen this far on this waste of money.
