An emergency slide deployed on Trump's new Air Force One before takeoff, delaying his flight. He insists it was just a routine check.
"How incomparable are the emperor's new clothes!" --Hans Christian Andersen
No way anyone intentionally deploys a slide right (certain,y not as a "test") right before the President's use.
I don't know about the rest of you but if I was on a plane that had the emergency slide deployed, I would like want to go down it.
I snapped my tibialis anterior tendon and fractured my lisfranc on an escape slide in an aircrew training centre in Hokkaido. I cannot recommend the experience.
I was a flight attendant and I can tell you first hand ( from training) it is NOT a fun experience and people get injured, sometimes seriously.
Looks more like it was the upper deck slide that was deployed? Given the position and the design of the slide.
I need an emergency slide deployment on my country’s political s**t show!
No. Those things take trained techs hours to repack. I imagine there’s also an inspection after deployment.
So either they sourced another slide in minutes or they departed without it.
2 Things.
1. military planes or supreme leader is above the law. They don't have to follow safety requirements of having a functional exit.
2. They probably have a spare of everything traveling with AF1 all the time. I'm not even surprised if they have a decoy Trump look alike standingby in the plane all the time.
Admittedly this is speculation: I am sure they keep spares of a lot of things, but only things one would reasonably expect to fail. I doubt they're schlepping around engines, flap assemblies, etc. Unless it gets deployed, I don't think a slide goes bad. Plus, there are multiple slide types on a 747 so you'd have to carry around a whole bunch. That said, I'm sure they're now on the packing list...
The president seems incapable of admitting that anything he does, or anything people around him do, is anything less than "perfect", "the greatest ever", "like no one has ever seen", or some other superlative. While his real or perceived enemies are always "the worst", etc. His refusal to cede any kind of middle ground or acknowledge any small human error feels pathological, especially at his ever-advancing age. I'm honestly surprised he hasn't blamed Biden for this.
On the aviation side, I've read recently that a plane can operate with an inop slide (but no more than 1, maybe 2 if the plane is big enough), so maybe they just removed the one that deployed and carried on with a note to fix it later.
This is just the famous Ray Cohn lesson, right? Never ever admit you're not winning
If ever a need for a "Sure Jan " Meme
Such a metaphor for the current state of this country.
I like to deploy the airbags in my steering wheel to make sure it's working from time to time
Well. We know Trump never lies, so let’s see what Charles Leclerc’s race engineer Xavi has to say about it.
“We are checking.”
Quick DJT get the National Guard on duty to protect the slide. Obvious it was another Olympic athlete trying to delay the Qatari jet from opening the trumpisforlosers show tonight!
We must not question our LEADER. Our LEADER is always truthful and all HIS actions are done in our best interest to protect us. Thank you LEADER.
So there he stopped the war between the jet bridge and the boarding stairs by grabbing the emergency slide by the pussy. That's war number 500 stopped - this year. Where's that Nobel committee when you need it? So the design of the ballroom will now be updated. No more stairs going nowhere on the front outside, but a golden emergency slide to commemorate the event.
Of course you could have placed a bet on Polymarket about this event, and if you paid the $100.000 insider information subscription on Truth Social, you could have known. I'm sure Trump put $500 billion on it happening, all for the good of his personal wallet and thus for the USA.
It's all great again, isn't it?
Perhaps the lever was pulled by the rats desperately fleeing the ship?
“I meant to do that.”
-The fat orange Nazi when he blows defecate out of the back of his diaper and pants, or has a general hold his hand to help him down a 3° ramp.
The hard drives in all the recording devices were full, so the Russians had to swap in some new ones, and they had to move the slide out of the way to get to some of them.
Well, that's one way not to perform a Gerald Ford...
No one believes what that guy says anymore, and one shouldn't even write about it in an article.
But, but... he'll give us each $5,000... ya know, like the 'DOGE checks' and 'tariff refunds'... *new forever-war, gas prices at all-time high, inflation persists* ...'promises made, promises kept.' /s