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MA Rothman𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 $𝟒𝟎𝟎 𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐈𝐑 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐂𝐄 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃 — 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐅𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐎𝐍𝐄On Wednesday, President Trump’s new Air Force One — the $𝟒𝟎𝟎 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 Boeing 747-8 gifted to the United States by Qatar — touched down at RAF Mildenhall in England. Hundreds of American servicemembers and their families lined the fence for a look.The jumbo jet is finished in a custom red, white, dark blue and gold livery Trump picked himself, refitted for presidential use by defense contractor L3Harris Technologies (𝘊𝘉𝘚 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴). For now it’s serving as a 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭 while Boeing finishes the two purpose-built VC-25B jets under a $3.9 billion contract signed back in 2018 — planes that aren’t expected to arrive until mid-2028.But the President himself didn’t fly it home. Trump boarded the 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬-𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐀𝐢𝐫 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐎𝐧𝐞 instead for the trip back from Turkey, sending the Qatari jet to Mildenhall on its own. The plane that still flies the President is the one built with the countermeasures that actually keep him safe — not the one with the nicer paint job.Online critics predicted nobody would bother showing up for the new jet. 𝐇𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐬 turned out anyway.𝐀 $𝟒𝟎𝟎 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐣𝐨𝐛. 𝐀 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬-𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤.