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Originally Posted by Johny Joe Hold
Personally, I am confident that if Donald Trump would have been alive at the time of Lindberg, he, rather than Lindberg, would have been the first pilot to have crossed the Atlantic.
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Not only would he have gotten there first, but
his plane would have a tasteful marble interior:
He took out a $400 million loan, personally guaranteeing $100 million of that, to buy the Eastern Air Shuttle for $365 million—even though the company itself had just valued the shuttle at $300 million. Talking to reporters, he compared this, too, to the Mona Lisa. He wanted to decorate the insides of the planes with marble before being told that would make them too heavy to fly.