Grandpa Pudding Brains tells grieving parents they can ride on his cool plane

Boing Boing, in a pointedly critical commentary, recounts an exchange in which President Trump offered the grieving family of a fallen service member a ride aboard Air Force One. As the outlet tells it, Trump described the family's reaction by saying, "They said wow." The piece frames the anecdote as an example of the president turning a moment of mourning toward praise for himself and his aircraft.

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