While President Joe Biden ‘has not spent a moment’ thinking about Air Force One’s color scheme, according to press secretary Jen Psaki, former President Donald Trump cared so much he sat down with National Geographic to talk about the project.
DailyMail.com got early access to the forthcoming NatGeo documentary ‘The New Air Force One: Flying Fortress,’ which shows Trump on board Air Force One speaking about the ‘stronger’ design he’d chosen for two new planes being built.
The 44-minute documentary also reveals that Trump wanted the presidential bedroom to have a ‘more modern luxury look’ that includes a queen bed, instead of two twin fold-outs, a larger TV and more seating.
President Donald Trump sat down for an interview with National Geographic in October 2019 to talk about the new Air Force One planes that he helped design
Trump looked at four different color schemes and preferred a red, white and blue design with blue engines. Trump told NatGeo that the redesign was ‘stronger’ and ‘actually more beautiful’
Air Force One’s current livery originated in the 1960s and the two 747s currently used as Air Force One date back to the 1990s
The National Geographic documentary, ‘The New Air Force One: Flying Fortress,’ shows behind-the-scenes footage of the two new 747-8s being constructed
One upgrade Trump requested was for Air Force One to have a bigger bed, a queen-size, compared to the twin fold-outs available now in the president’s bedroom
The documentary showed the current layout of the presidential bedroom, which has twin beds that convert into seating
The footage reveals that Trump requested that the new Air Force Ones’ beds become queen-sized instead of twin
The documentary also showed what the upgraded president’s conference room could look like in the two new planes, which aren’t exected to be in use until 2024
Air Force One’s pilots in the cockpit as shown in the forthcoming National Geographic documentary, ‘The New Air Force One: Flying Fortress’
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said President Joe Biden ‘has not spent a moment’ thinking about Air Force One’s color scheme, something Trump spent an inordinate amount of time on
‘I view this as something to do with legacy,’ Trump said during the interview, which was conducted in October 2019. ‘Everytime I look at it I’ll say, “I had a lot to do with that.” Just, really, a representation of our great country.’
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