Lets look at this $100,000,000 gift to replace a genuine AF1 USAF VC-25 Acft.
This is a fully equipped luxury business jet… for starters.
NO hardening… structural/mechanical/electrical/electronic/engines/etc…for nuclear warfare and ‘other air/ground threats’. IE: NO defensive/offensive countermeasures for electronic warfare or physical threats such as AAMs, SAMs, electronic attack, LASER attack, solar/interference, EMP, EMI , TREES, Ionizing radiation, etc. NO secure communications and military grade electronics for anything.
NO Air refueling system for extended range/duration flight.
NO Medical or long duration accommodations for crew and POTUS.
This is a unique configuration aircraft… engineering for everything takes time.
Decisions as to ‘what to include what to exclude’ and then ;'design arounds will take time… much-less build/install. The EXACT structural-interior-mechanical-electrical-etc configuration of the ‘Q’ jet may be unusable and may have to be completely removed/replaced/scrapped.
This unique aircraft will require the USAF to 'staff/spin-up, plan-for the logistics of a singular ‘white-house-elephant’ configuration. The ‘sucking sounds’ of USAF/systems-contractor/Boeing/engine-manufacturers/etc… resources and attention… will be deafening. NOT even the tires will be common to existing VC-25 747s.
And-so-on. This is the ‘corrupt gift’ that the USAF/USG/people could cringe about for decades. ‘Soo-sooolly’ that the aging/existing fully functional AF-1(s), 2-identical Acft)… ready to fly and fight… seem so beneath this egotistical short-sighted persona. In his mind and his observations and his calculations this is such an ‘easy thing’ to accomplish.
Mary Trump was so right about her arctic-ice uncle. Amen.