@POTUS · 13 Jan 2026 · 16:20
We built those planes. We sold them those planes. We maintain those planes — at OUR cost, on OUR computers, for THIRTY YEARS.
Now they want the planes without us. Doesn't work that way. Never did. They just never had to think about it before.
Two days earlier he had told reporters he knew nothing about it and to ask the Air Force.
THANK YOU. Thirty years of paying for their defence while they lecture us about our own elections.
If they want an air force they can build an air force.
I did two tours with Danes. Small army, no complaints, went where we went.
You can think Europe underpays and still think this was a filthy way to do it. Both of those fit in one head. Mine has been holding them all afternoon.
I teach 8th grade. Tomorrow morning a room full of thirteen year olds is going to ask me whether we just sabotaged our allies' planes, and I do not have a good answer.
Whatever this is, it is going to be in a textbook. Please think about which paragraph.
Genuine question and not a gotcha: who buys the next batch?
I have spent thirty-one years welding things that get sold overseas. If the customer finds out the switch is in Texas, the customer buys French next time. That is my pension you are negotiating with.
Availability across the allied F-35 force falls by more than half in seventy-two hours. The United Kingdom brings forensic logs to Brussels showing the severance was administrative…