Trump Administration Buys 2 New Private Jets for Kristi Noem To Use

https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2025/10/18/coast-guard-reportedly-spent-172-million-on-private-jets-for-kristi-noems-use/

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webdox@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 315d (3 replies)
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altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 315d

Most hated people choose to not travel by land.

thelivefive@startrek.website · 3 pts · 314d

Didnt she just piss off airport employees by trying to make them air propaganda demonizing the Democrats and insulting themselves? Maybe she's not having a fun time flying right now...

SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 2 pts · 314d

They started with a dog sled but that didn’t last long.

who@feddit.org · 45 pts · 315d

Trump administration forces taxpayers to buy 2 new private jets for Kristi Noem.

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io · 44 pts · 315d

Waste, fraud, and abuse…

aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 315d
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demizerone@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 315d

That witch should use a wicker broom.

distantsounds@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 315d

Getting ready to fuck off to Argentina

nosuchanon@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 315d (2 replies)

Why not use that piece of shit plane Qatar gave Trump?

aramis87@fedia.io · 8 pts · 314d (1 reply)

A) Qatar had been trying to offload that plane for several years, so it needs maintenance work.

B) The plane sat under foreign control for a while after the transfer was announced, so every vital part of the plane needs to be checked for potential sabotage.

C) Qatar (and possibly other countries) have undoubtedly bugged every inch of that plane, so everything needs to be gone over with a comb, to find bugs.

D) It doesn't have enough gold.

All of which means they have to disassemble and then reassemble the plane before they allow it into service, which is going to take quite a while and a lot of money.

But it was a great deal for Qatar! They got to offload a plane they'd been trying to get rid of, they avoided the sanctions list, and they get training on US fighter jets and a base in the US.

nosuchanon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 314d

All the better to fly all of Trumps cronies.

heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 315d

I hope they crash into each other

tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 315d (1 reply)

How many eggs can you get for 2 jets?

BlueBaggy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 315d

last time I checked 12

Arancello@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 315d

Sounds really cool. She can have a foot on each jet and ride them like Dr Strangelove and the missile.

chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 315d

Wasn't she the one that got jealous when Trump got gifted his Saudi jet?

venusaur@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 315d

✊🏻💦

gorkur@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 315d

One for her, one for her face?

redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 314d

The irony is this makes her less safe. Flying without any civilian shields in a small probably single engine jet. No one has to do anything, she'll hire the most racist air force drum out as a pilot, talk shit on the maintenance staff and listen to freebird.

Shamber@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 314d

She's blowing all the right people, or so it seems

Grass@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 315d

gravel pit was it?