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America’s Answer to the World: The F-47 “Trump”
New fighter aircraft will fly with Trump’s name and image with “MAGAs”
Yesterday, with a broad smile, President Donald J. Trump announced that Boeing had won a multi-billion dollar contract to build America’s next-generation fighter aircraft. The plane is part of a program called NGAD or Next Generation Air Dominance. NGAD includes semiautonomous drones that will fly with the F-47. Those drones will be known as MAGAs.
President Trump noted that the Air Force suggested naming the plan the F-47 Trump. “I agreed,” said Trump, “because there is no better way to say to the world that we are winners.” Air Force Chief of Staff David Allvin nodded his head but looked down when Trump continued:
Every plane will have ‘This is Your Retribution’ painted on its nose and a picture of our favorite president on the control panel.
Trump held up an example of the picture, a postage-stamp-sized image of the president with his fist in the air shouting “Fight, Fight, Fight!” after he was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania. The photos sell for $59 each in the White House gift shop, but the ones in the F-47 will have to be “special,” Trump said, and “because of their rarity and historical importance,” will cost more.
One reporter at the event asked, “Why Boeing? How did they win the contract?”
The president’s answer raised eyebrows when Trump walked over to a model of the new Air Force One as he responded,
Boeing has agreed to finish my new plane, known as Air Force 47, to avoid confusion with the current airplane, and to deliver it by the end of the year at no additional cost to taxpayers.
Most attendees clapped at the news, prompting Trump to add:
Elon Musk came up with the idea of simplifying the contracting. We will now get my new plane free and quit hearing about…
