Turbulence Often Strikes the Trump
Gov. Mike Pence’s rocky landing on Thursday night at La Guardia Airport the campaign plane skidded off the runway, and emergency crews scrambled to the scene in a driving rain certainly lends itself as an apt metaphor for Donald J. Trump’s entire canada canada goose uk black friday goose outlet reviews presidential run: chaotic, turbulent and skittering just on canada goose outlet black friday the edge of disaster.
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The reporters who cover canada goose outlet jackets the Republican ticket are all canada goose store too familiar with the choppy times aboard what we call Hair canada goose outlet canada Force One (and Hair Force Two, in the case of the Indiana governor).
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On Saturday, while preparing to take off for a rally in Phoenix, passengers were given a buy canada goose jacket cryptic warning: Something was amiss in the flight deck that they “wouldn’t like.” (After sitting idle for nearly 40 minutes, the Canada Goose Outlet plane took off and reached its destination.)
And there was the day we hit the runway so forcefully that a canada goose factory outlet flight attendant seemed to canada goose outlet store uk channel our collective mentality when she murmured softly, “That is not how you land cheap canada goose uk the Canada Goose Parka bird.”
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Of course, commercial air travel is no picnic these days, either, and the canada goose factory sale crews on our private charter have always done the most important job: getting everyone to the ground in one piece. No one was hurt on Thursday, and preliminary data indicates that the devices that slow a plane upon landing had deployed a little too late on Mr. canada goose outlet online uk Pence’s flight.
There is also something egalitarian about traveling on a campaign plane. Sure, there are literal and figurative barriers and walls, and a clear hierarchy the candidate sits in the front canada goose outlet store with Canada Goose Online his or her staff, followed by the Secret Service, then the press, sprawled out in the back.
Would Mr. Trump have done the same? No one will ever know. Breaking with tradition, as he has done so many times during the campaign, Mr. Trump refuses to fly with his press corps and instead favors cheap Canada Goose his canada goose outlet shop private jet, complete with golden seatbelts. His canada goose black friday sale reporters go on their own charter.
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