President Trump’s recently unveiled 747 plane, which his Administration received as a gift from the government of Qatar, represents a cultural achievement and is the latest in a series of long-overdue renovations and upgrades to the national infrastructure writ large.WATCH:The newly acquired aircraft will serve as a temporary Air Force One, until the official one, contracted to Boeing in 2018, but delayed by a series of setbacks under the Biden years, will be deployed. The Star-Spangled Jet will replace one of two Air Force One-designated 747’s, which have been in continuous use as the official aircraft of the President of the United States since 1990.The President’s action is replete with cultural, technological, economic significance. It is a state-of-the-art aircraft that will be replacing a Boeing jet that has served seven presidencies, and in recent years due to age and wear-and-tear, has presented mounting challenges for safety and maintenance.To wait another two years for the new Boeing Air Force One to prospectively be commissioned (and that of course is a gamble, given the delays that have stymied its development for nearly a decade) would pose a huge risk to the security and safety of the President and his staff.What is more, no other Air Force aircraft has been in service for as long as the current two baby-blue planes, one of which will be decommissioned with the announcement of the Qatar-gifted jet.The previous Air Force One, which the 1990s fleet had displaced, was commissioned in 1962 (also the genesis of the baby-blue design), midway through John F. Kennedy’s term, and served until the administration of President George H.W. Bush.During that storied run, the aircraft served a total of seven presidents over twenty-eight years, bearing witness to some of the most consequential events of the twentieth century: including carrying the body of JFK after his assassination in Dallas, to carrying former presidents Nixon, Ford, and Carter under Reagan’s presidency to the funeral of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, after his own assassination in 1981.The current 1990-commissioned, “baby-blue” Air Force One has been in service now for thirty-six years and counting, eight years longer than its previous installment already.If President Trump were to wait until 2028, when the new Boeing flight is estimated to be complete, it will have served for nearly forty years, long past the historic point of retirement for these jets.The new Qatar jet, which was built in the early 2010s, is better positioned for a world teeming with new military technology and modern threats that were unforeseen at the time the currently used Boeing jets went into service in 1990.It is a much larger, stately craft, responsive to the risks of an increasingly uncertain world. Its red-white-and-(now navy) blue color scheme, mirroring the colors of Old Glory, were directly chosen by President Trump, and are indicative of a forward-looking aircraft set to venture, along with America, into the new horizons this century offers.The President is a dedicated preservationist of American history. At the Qatar plane announcement, he also told reporters that the former jets would likely go to a presidential museum, where they will receive a proper (and well-deserved) retirement from public service, allowing them to be displayed as the great historical artefacts they are long into the future.The President’s decision is shrewd from a business perspective as well. In keeping with his broader message to make America prosperous again, the Qatari involvement is an adroit expression of the art of the deal when put to presidential politics and global diplomacy.In this exchange, the President received a plane for free from a foreign government, which would be deployed almost immediately, and thus bypass the governmental red-tape that time and again has stifled progress, sometimes by years, for most other presidents on major upgrades to infrastructure like this project.Indeed, one of the reasons another jet has taken so long to be commissioned was not because of any want of desire on part of the presidents themselves. Just as with the ballroom, for years American presidents have pined for an upgraded Air Force One jet.However, they have been thwarted in their vision by bureaucratic processes, which has made the commissioning of such a jet a major headache in both time and money.Beyond that, recent economic instability, the byproducts of inflation and industrial outsourcing, has severely harmed traditional manufacturing. Boeing, as a prime example of the latter category, has wrought some of the harshest woes from the policies of globalism, which has sent so many otherwise good American manufacturing jobs overseas.Combined with economic shockwaves unleashed by the covid-19 pandemic, the stolen election, and the wasteful foreign entanglements which have in recent decades taken the oxygen out of the room from anything else, it has put many transportation manufacturers at death’s door, making the building of a new jet, properly equipped for the modern world, a nearly insurmountable endeavor to overcome.Fortunately, that dynamic of decline has been dramatically unspooled under President Donald J. Trump. Where, under his second administration in particular, a new “golden age” has been unleashed for American business and reindustrialization policies more broadly.In this light, the decision to purchase a plane from a key middle eastern lynchpin, representing an increasingly influential stakeholder in both war and business, has implications that go beyond the mere political. In one fell swoop, the President has not only strengthened the United States from a national security standpoint, but has ingratiated our government to a key middle eastern stakeholder, an essential party for ongoing diplomacy in Iran and elsewhere.That is not to say that the deed itself was driven primarily, if at all, by geopolitical interests or realpolitik considerations. It is to say, however, that the President, and his Administration, often make decisions across multifaceted planes (no pun intended), where American interests are carefully weighed against a cacophony of domains – economic, cultural, and security related.To say nothing of aesthetics, and the symbolic potency of being gifted a new luxury jet, whose size and cutting-edge design is the reified expression of power and strength projected globally.Contrary to the absurdist narratives of an outwardly duplicitous news media, attempting to paint any and every expression of cultural revitalization with the brushstroke of negativity and desperation, the new 747 is a bold maneuver of power and ingenuity by a President that makes no apologies to the world for America’s greatness, and all the attendant responsibilities such greatness imparts on us and us alone. That achievement alone is deserving of celebration.The post President Trump’s New Air Force One Jet Is A Celebration Of National Pride And Ingenuity appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.