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Showing Original Post only (View all)Trump unleashes a befuddling rant about using the "children's stairs" to get up into Air Force One [View all]
trump is having problems with stairs on Air Force One and other places
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BREAKING: Donald Trump unleashes a befuddling rant about using the "children's stairs" to get up into Air Force One and says that he wants to use the "long ones" instead.
Dementia Don wants to be treated like a big boy...
"Our country is respected again like never They were laughing at our country. We had a guy who couldn't walk up a flight of stairs. He kept falling. It's very embarrassing," Trump said during a speech at the America Business Forum in Miami.
"You know at Air Force One I go... 'Sir would you like the short stairs or the long.' I said give me the long every single time please. The short ones They call them the children's stairs," he rambled on. "I don't want the children's stairs. Doesn't look so good coming out of the children's stairs. Now if the weather's bad it's okay, right? If you don't mind."
The so-called "children's stairs" are an alternative entrance into Air Force One that extends directly into the belly of the aircraft. The "long" stairs are an 18-foot staircase that attaches to the upper exterior of the plane, allowing presidents to make more dramatic entrances and exits from the plane.
The suggestion here is that Trump's staff are constantly pressuring him to use the safer, smaller stairs but his ego won't permit him. He has been caught on camera stumbling on the "long" steps and is at obvious risk of taking a painful fall. This is a 79-year-old man who doesn't believe in exercise. His body is falling apart almost as quickly as his mind is and we still don't know why he underwent a nonstandard MRI scan last month. If he does indeed have dementia, as seems increasingly likely, his chances of falling are even higher.
Dementia Don wants to be treated like a big boy...
"Our country is respected again like never They were laughing at our country. We had a guy who couldn't walk up a flight of stairs. He kept falling. It's very embarrassing," Trump said during a speech at the America Business Forum in Miami.
"You know at Air Force One I go... 'Sir would you like the short stairs or the long.' I said give me the long every single time please. The short ones They call them the children's stairs," he rambled on. "I don't want the children's stairs. Doesn't look so good coming out of the children's stairs. Now if the weather's bad it's okay, right? If you don't mind."
The so-called "children's stairs" are an alternative entrance into Air Force One that extends directly into the belly of the aircraft. The "long" stairs are an 18-foot staircase that attaches to the upper exterior of the plane, allowing presidents to make more dramatic entrances and exits from the plane.
The suggestion here is that Trump's staff are constantly pressuring him to use the safer, smaller stairs but his ego won't permit him. He has been caught on camera stumbling on the "long" steps and is at obvious risk of taking a painful fall. This is a 79-year-old man who doesn't believe in exercise. His body is falling apart almost as quickly as his mind is and we still don't know why he underwent a nonstandard MRI scan last month. If he does indeed have dementia, as seems increasingly likely, his chances of falling are even higher.
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Trump unleashes a befuddling rant about using the "children's stairs" to get up into Air Force One [View all]
LetMyPeopleVote
Nov 5
OP
What happened to the investigation Trump ordered into the dastardly UN escalator incident?
muriel_volestrangler
Nov 5
#15