Two oil tankers have been attacked in the Gulf of Oman, presumably with the aid of Iran. The United States and China are going through a disagreement that is about far more than change. The southern border stays anarchic and uncontrolled.
And Congress is calling: “Can I get the icon in cornflower blue?”
Here is the situation: The president of the United States travels from region to region in one of two Boeing jets specified as “Air Force One” when the president is aboard. Jets wear out, and the U.S. Government is commissioning a couple of recent ones to now not come into use until President Ocasio-Cortez takes over in 2025. The Washington Post is on the case and reviews that the brand new look will turn out to be “offering hues remarkably just like his” — Trump’s — “private jet.” This is genuine. Trump’s jet, seen often throughout the 2016 campaign, is, going from pinnacle to bottom, blue, red, and white. The paint scheme will change from its Sixties two-tone blue to an extra conservative and current appearance, that is, see if these colors sound familiar — pink, white, and blue. The new Air Force One can be white, pink, and blue. In each case, the purple makes up a slim stripe, keeping apart the two large shade fields.
Congressional Democrats are, of course, outraged: How dare this aspiring caudillo order an automobile belonging to the authorities to be painted crimson, white, and blue! That’s . . . Un-American!
Aesthetically, we dodged a countrywide bullet here. The new designs (there are a few mild variations underneath attention) are perfectly normal. They are absolutely respectable and unremarkable. Given President Trump’s very own Nero-by-way-of-Liberace private tastes — the gilding, the faux Louis XIV furnishings, the golden bathroom — things might have been loads worse.
