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Kanye West Pitches Stolen Idea For Air Force 1 to Donald Trump

Kanye West was in the White House some hours ago, for a meet and eat with the President of the United States, Donald Trump. Surprisingly, the roof of the House didn’t blow from both their over-inflated egos, but we still have plenty to talk about.
Kanye West shows Donald Trump "his" idea for the new Presidential plane, the Apple-built iPlane 1 5 photos
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Like how Kanye (or Ye, as he likes to be called these days) pitched an idea to The Donald about a possible replacement for Air Force 1, a hydrogen-fueled plane that he claimed he was working with Apple on. Moreover, he even showed the President photos of the plane in question.

You can see that part of the conversation in the tweet below. A clearly pleased Ye tells Trump that he’s brought a “gift” and he proceeds to unlock his iPhone with what must be one of the worst passwords of all times: 000000.

He then scrolls through pictures and shows Trump and Jared Kushner one of a modernized plane, which he names iPlane 1. He says it’s hydrogen-fueled and calls it his idea. He wants Apple to built it for him, and in his generosity, he suggests Trump could use it to fly around the world on his Presidential business.

“We’re going to have Apple, an American company, work on this plane,” Ye boasts. (As a side note, Boeing, which is currently building planes for the President, is also an American company.) “If he don’t look good, we don’t look good,” Kanye adds of the need to have Trump in a visually stunning new plane. “[He] has to be the freshest, the flyest... the flyest planes, the best factories.”

As it so happens, iPlane 1 is not Kanye’s idea and, you guessed it, neither is it a secret Apple project. The rapper actually stole someone else’s idea and photos and passed them for his own: The Verge identifies the creator of the concept plane as industrial design student Shabtai Hirshberg, who included it in his 2012 master’s thesis on the future of transportation in 2030.

Hirshberg says his photos have been online since 2015, so he imagines Kanye must have stumbled across them while Googling. For the record, he’s not holding any grudge against the rapper, even if he did try to pass his idea for his own.

“He didn’t say that it was me... but it’s nice to be recognized by the reporters at least,” Hirshberg says. “
I’d be more than happy to collaborate with Kanye West and Apple if they decide to actually take this forward.”

The actual purpose behind Kanye’s White House visit was to talk prison reform, violence in his hometown Chicago and the Music Modernization Act.



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About the author: Elena Gorgan
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Elena has been writing for a living since 2006 and, as a journalist, she has put her double major in English and Spanish to good use. She covers automotive and mobility topics like cars and bicycles, and she always knows the shows worth watching on Netflix and friends.
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