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usonian

(18,123 posts)
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 11:51 AM 4 hrs ago

Can the Air Force One ramp be replaced with a lift? Asking for a fiend.

It can be done!


IndiGo Airlines
https://www.reducedmobility.eu/20140614461/The-News/indigo-airlines-introduce-stair-lifts-for-disabled-passengers.html

A we all know.
Donald Trump “Joe Biden can’t even walk up a flight of stairs on Air Force One…We have somebody that doesn't have a clue representing us”

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Can the Air Force One ramp be replaced with a lift? Asking for a fiend. (Original Post) usonian 4 hrs ago OP
Wouldn't a bucket truck be better? He wouldn't have to walk at all. Ocelot II 3 hrs ago #1
LOL. Let a couple of Guardsmen assist him up the steps if ramps/lifts aren't available. Silent Type 3 hrs ago #2
Ha MoseShrute 3 hrs ago #5
I am thinking hoist. Sneederbunk 3 hrs ago #3
I can't say what I'm thinking. usonian 3 hrs ago #6
Trebuchet? Maru Kitteh 3 hrs ago #10
No. That's all. usonian 2 hrs ago #12
Trebuchet would be more expeditious. n/t flvegan 3 hrs ago #4
The splat would be satisfying. Ocelot II 3 hrs ago #7
Granted, it would take some dialing in. flvegan 3 hrs ago #9
Great idea. usonian 3 hrs ago #8
"All the pilots come up to me, tears flvegan 2 hrs ago #13
We had the same thought. Punkin chunkin. Maru Kitteh 2 hrs ago #11
LOL flvegan 1 hr ago #17
Put him on one of those conveyor belt ramps they use to load luggage. sop 2 hrs ago #14
A lift for the narcissist who wears lifts? tinrobot 2 hrs ago #15
Physical mobility has nothing to do with whether or not he has a clue. Ms. Toad 1 hr ago #16
Well...maybe... jmowreader 1 hr ago #18
This? Kingofalldems 1 hr ago #19
He's still recovering from the immense scratch to his ear lobe while defensing the country. Ping Tung 1 hr ago #20

flvegan

(65,049 posts)
9. Granted, it would take some dialing in.
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 12:54 PM
3 hrs ago

Each airport, accounting for wind and weather, how much McDonald's Bloaty McBloatface had devoured in the last half day, might mean it takes a couple launches. They'd get it eventually. I'm sure of it.

flvegan

(65,049 posts)
13. "All the pilots come up to me, tears
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 01:05 PM
2 hrs ago

in their eyes, and say 'sir, you're the most magnificent flying jumbo, each time, and I wish I could fly as quickly and majestically as you do', and I say I know air better than anyone, and you have to know air, some say you have to have air, but I know air and sometimes, most times I have it."

sop

(14,580 posts)
14. Put him on one of those conveyor belt ramps they use to load luggage.
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 01:45 PM
2 hrs ago

Hopefully, baggage handlers would lose him and he'd sit unclaimed in a hangar for several years.

Ms. Toad

(37,051 posts)
16. Physical mobility has nothing to do with whether or not he has a clue.
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 01:58 PM
1 hr ago

He doesn't. Full stop.

But stop suggesting people (Trump or anyone else) with physical disabilities are stupid.

I fell yesterday - flat on my face with multiple bruises to prove it. Not unusual - the only thing that is unusual is that I have bruises from it. I fall so often that I have learned to completely relax when I fall so that I don't injure myself - yesterday I was holding something I couldn't spill so relaxing wasn't an option. It has been years since I have been able to answer "no" to the medical visit question, "Have you fallen in the last X months?" - no matter how small X is. I have three degrees, and was top in my class in two of those. I am currently working on a 4th, and about 1/3 of the way in with a 4.0 average. Obviously "having a clue" isn't an issue for me.

FDR, responsible for many of the social net programs we are fighting so hard to save, used a wheelchair.

Ridicule Trump for his ego, his narcissism, his cruelty, his politics, etc. But please stop suggesting physical mobility makes someone better or more capable than those who are less mobile.

jmowreader

(52,379 posts)
18. Well...maybe...
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 02:03 PM
1 hr ago

How about using a 40-ton crane and a safety harness, and just kinda swinging him through the plane door?

Ping Tung

(2,565 posts)
20. He's still recovering from the immense scratch to his ear lobe while defensing the country.
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 02:07 PM
1 hr ago
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