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@maya_teaches · 13 Jan 2026 · 17:02

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The President of the United States @POTUS · 13 Jan 2026 · 16:20 post

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.

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Two days earlier he had told reporters he knew nothing about it and to ask the Air Force.

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Maya @maya_teaches · 13 Jan 2026 · 17:02
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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.

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