Mr. Trump, Get Off Our Plane!

Air Force One

Okay...okay...okay!!!! Now he's really, really, really done it (or wants to do it). Trump wants to repaint Air Force One in more "American" colors because he doesn't like the "Jackie Kennedy" paint scheme of his current ride. Are you fucking kidding me? He doesn't like the paint scheme of the most recognized airplane in the whole goddamn world? He doesn't think that massive, incredible, gorgeous symbol of the U.S. has the right fucking paint scheme???? How dare he. How fucking dare he even think that. How many late and former presidents, spouses, guests, and flight crews have been borne aloft on Air Force One's glorious wings--whether they were the wings of a modified 707 or the wings of a modified 747--would weep at the suggestion of something so vile as a repainted Trump air wagon. AND....AND...he wants a fucking bigger bed!!!!! Really? A bigger bed? I suppose he wants the sheets rubberized so he can play golden shower games on it. How dare he...I've held off on Trump for months now, but this is too damn much even for me.

Here is a man who cannot even spell airplane, cannot even pronounce the words to God Bless America, wanting to "Americanize" Air Force One with a new paint job. The most beautiful plane in the whole world, and he wants to repaint it? Holy Crap. This is just too damn much. Fuck you, Trump. Big time. Sorry folks, if you think you're offended now by my language, you don't know how deep this stupid shit has gone.

He hates NATO and all our allies, sucks up to Putin and Xi and Erdogan and every nutjob dictator in every banana republic; he screws with the economy, he fucks the environment, he wants to dismantle the Justice Department and the Constitution, he has no use for people of any other color than white, or any sex other than straight male, he hates the poor, he thinks he's god's gift to women, he would lie about the sun coming up in the East if he could (but, unlike the Fool on the Hill, he doesn't know WHY the sun rises in the East, he has no brain for science, literature, the arts, music, anything!!!!! And now he wants to repaint Air Force One. Oh My God....

It would be impossible to embarrass America more than Trump has; it would be  impossible to do more damage to the American psyche than Trump has done; it would be impossible to unsettle, unbalance, unhinge the dreams of most Americans more than Trump has. And it would be impossible to find someone more vapid, crass, ugly, boorish, inhumane, selfish, and flat-out stupid than Trump. 

The issue with repainting Air Force One is not so much about a president suggesting a new color scheme; I completely understand an argument that is rooted in the reasonableness of wanting to look at something new after 60 years of the same thing. And if we had a president who came at the issue sensibly, with some thought behind the suggestion, I would welcome the debate and look forward to some artists' renderings. I love the current look, but I'm old, I'm an artist, and I know there are possibilities out there for something different. 

Art is not about being frozen in time; it's about flowing with time and finding new paths of expression. So, for me with Air Force One, it's not about changing the colors; it's about the ego underpinning the suggestion. Trump doesn't really want Air Force One's look to reflect a new American age; he doesn't care about art or color or expression; he wants to get rid of anything and everything not Trump. Period. And I'm not having any of it. Air Force One is the epitome of the Global American partner, and in its current livery it stands for the best in our nation. 

That Mr. Trump thinks Americans are simply going to love his choice of what he thinks is "American" is a symptom of a man lost in the shallows of his brain's fetid tidal pools. When I rant about changing Air Force One's paint scheme, I'm not holding on to a fading past; I'm railing against the red-tide of one man's dangerous ego. Let the next president suggest a new paint scheme if he or she feels so moved, but please, don't let this president near a box of crayons while he's aboard Air Force One.