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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…