He don’t ”figure” he will wind up with the plane, he knows will wind up with the plane, it leaves DC with him, and if he passed in the meantime it will “belong” to his library, meaning Junior will fly around in itThe new Airforce One is scheduled for delivery in 2027. It is being built. The retrofitting of the Trump/Qatari plane would take longer than that and cost a billion or more. Taking the plane is stupid. But then Trump is stupid, so it makes sense. Trump figures he will wind up with the plane. He will probably not live long enough for that to happen.
And the cost to retrofitting will exceed estimates, Trump knows it is his, and if the American taxpayer is footing the bill, he’s going first class on steroids in retrofitting and upgrades