President Donald Trump is taking his first presidential flight aboard a newly retrofitted Boeing 747 serving as Air Force One on Wednesday, traveling to Medora, North Dakota, to mark the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library and promote a conservation push tied to America’s 250th birthday."This will be the first flight of what I think is maybe the greatest commercial plane ever built.I said to Boeing, what's the best one? He said, 'this is the best plane ever built, and you're going to have the privilege of flying it,'" Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews.Trump is traveling aboard a $400 million Boeing 747-8i donated by the government of Qatar and refurbished for presidential use.
Trump is also set to meet with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and other officials in Medora, where he will mark the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library and promote Roosevelt’s conservation legacy.NEW AIR FORCE ONE TAKES FLIGHT AS TRUMP UNVEILS REVAMPED PRESIDENTIAL AIRCRAFTThe VC-25B Bridge aircraft has officially arrived at Joint Base Andrews "I'm excited about the first flight.It's something nobody's ever seen anything like it.
Even you people, with all your experience and all of your talents, you will never see anything like it.They just completed it.
They made it appropriate for a president," Trump added."That means the security and all of the different bells and whistles they put on very complex stuff."He said the previous plane was around 36 years old and Americans should be proud of the new plane."It would be parked next to the new ones like this.
It really didn't look appropriate for our country… you can do two things.You can low-key it or you can show it," added Trump.NEW AIR FORCE ONE TAKES FLIGHT AS TRUMP UNVEILS REVAMPED PRESIDENTIAL AIRCRAFTTheodore Roosevelt became America’s 26th and youngest president at age 42.
Trump and Burgum will arrive to the museum with a ceremonial Rough Riders horseback escort before touring the...