Donald Trump’s $100 million private Boeing 757 collided with another corporate jet while taxiing at West Palm Beach International Airport in Florida on Sunday, a source familiar with the incident said.
The former president held a rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on Saturday and was returning to Florida just before his trip to New York to continue his hush money trial.
The incident occurred after the plane landed at the West Palm Beach airport around 1:20 a.m. Sunday.
The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that a privately owned 757 contacted a corporate plane parked and unoccupied at the South Florida airport. The FAA statement did not identify the plane as belonging to Trump.
The incident occurred in an area of the airport where the FAA does not direct planes, the agency said, adding that it is investigating.
Donald Trump’s private Boeing 757 collided with another corporate jet while taxiing at West Palm Beach International Airport in Florida on Sunday, a source familiar with the incident said.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump’s 757 is a staple of presidential campaign rallies at airports, and at a rally in Ohio in March a voice announced: “Trump Force One, you are cleared to land.”
Trump purchased his $100 million Boeing 757 in 2010 and the highly customized plane includes gold-plated details, two private bedrooms, three bathrooms, dining and conference areas and an extensive entertainment system. The plane was built in 1991.
In January, Trump urged Boeing to resume construction of the 757, which it discontinued in 2004.
“Boeing should bring back the 757, the most beautiful and best-handling airplane (from the pilots’ point of view!) that Boeing has ever made,” he said on social media.
Trump held a huge Jersey Shore rally Saturday night in Wildwood, where he talked about eating hot dogs and mocked the state’s former governor, Chris Christie.
The former president’s campaign claimed that 80,000 supporters demonstrated in favor of the oceanfront issue.
Trump opened the rally by saying he planned to compete not only in New Jersey – a traditionally Democratic state – but also in Minnesota and Virginia.
“I don’t know if it could be all of them,” Trump predicted of the states he would win in the November elections. “This guy is so bad it could be all of them.”
The former president held a rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on Saturday and was returning to Florida just before his trip to New York to continue his hush money trial.
Trump then returned north on Monday for the last of his hush money trial, which featured long-awaited testimony from former fixer Michael Cohen on Tuesday.
The presumptive Republican nominee peppered his speech with references to the Jersey Shore, while speaking in front of a large Ferris wheel and other amusement park attractions.
Trump then returned north on Monday for the last of his hush money trial, which featured long-awaited testimony from former fixer Michael Cohen on Tuesday.
There was profanity, name-calling (‘Cheeto-dusted villain’ is one of them) and questions about Cohen’s shift from Trump loyalist to resistance crusader, and whether it was a wokeness or a selfish plan.
It was another extraordinary day in the extraordinary criminal trial of a former president, who could return to power in November. The nation’s politics crashed into a courtroom drama complete with Cohen’s morality tale.
With Trump stuck in court defending himself against 34 counts of falsifying business documents and prohibited from attacking witnesses or judicial officials, he took the campaign to the 15th floor of the deteriorating court building.