Or if there are Russian hookers on board, Air Force Number One.
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Appropriate for someone plotting Air Force Runs.
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Glasgow Prestwick Airport is only called Glasgow so that Ryanair can claim to have flights there. It’s really 35 miles away from Glasgow, and just outside Ayr.
Trump doesn’t have a partnership with the real Glasgow International Airport, so they could just tell Air Force One to fuck off if they felt like it. He’ll be going to Prestwick.
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It’s a nice fantasy that he will be grounded in Scotland but the reality is that even under pandemic restrictions, if you are important or have money, you are able to travel internationally.
He might be travelling on his own nickel at that point, but he will be able to leave Scotland.
The point though, would be to make him do it on his own dime, and without setting foot on a golf course.
You have to love Janey Godley!
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Air Force Zero
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Air Force 11,780
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That would put him somewhere over Greenland. In the dead of winter.
That’ll work.
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The planes are just a distraction for the Russian sub that picks him up.
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that would be funny if the plane then did an immediate return to base without touching down in Scotland so that Trump’s final trip was a flight to nowhere and he didn’t even get a golf game.
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And that’s legal? Using government assets as campaign tools?
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Just FTR, Eilean Donan Castle, while an iconic Scottish landmark, is not anywhere near Trump’s Turnberry golf course (which is in Ayrshire). It’s approximately a 6-hour drive between the two.
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No, it really isn’t legal. But there’s no consequences for his actions.
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It’s complicated. Usually the federal budget pays for part of the operating cost of Air Force One because an incumbent president, even when campaigning, is still the president (and therefore must be able to avail themselves of, e.g., the national-security oriented personnel and equipment on the aircraft), but on campaigning trips the campaign is supposed to cover at least part of the expenses, to a point where the contribution is approximately equivalent to the cost of chartering a smaller aircraft such as a Boeing 737. There’s a sliding scale based on exactly how much official POTUS business, as opposed to candidate business, happens during the trip.
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There are some who are getting ready to prosecute him here in Scotland, anyway. To actually have him get stuck in lockdown here as soon as he’s no longer protected from such things… it’s almost an appealing prospect, you know. https://www.thenational.scot/news/18868011.donald-trump-must-held-account-scottish-investments-greens-urge/
Ach, he’s unlikely to be actually stopped, but no: he’s definitely not particularly ‘welcome’. Some shots from a little protest here in Edinburgh almost exactly four years ago:
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Culzean Castle is near to Turnberry.
I wonder if it irritates Trump knowing that Eisenhower was given an apartment there for his actions in WW2, and that he will never get a similar honour?
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That was my immediate thought. But then I thought, “Surely we have an extradition treaty with UK/Scotland?”
Not if Donald hides in a pillow fort! I’m sure pillow forts are sacrosanct… 
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Yep. Scotland has loads and loads of scenic and impressive castles all over the place. Why people always end up with Eilean Donan Castle is something I don’t get. Is it the Highlander effect?
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