White House Wanted to Update Its File Photo of Air Force One Buzzing the Statue of Liberty: Update it. As in, they already have several. But those were from the nasty Bush Administration (or, more likely, before; I doubt Bush got the chance before 9/11).

So the NOTUS (Narcissist of the United States) decided it was about time he buzzed NYC, so he could have his pretty picture.

I'm still waiting to hear what this purported DoD photo shoot was for. And where was the camera crew, anyway?

Obviously, this was a secret training exercise, or a psyop routine.

Apparently the plane, which was the Air Force One back-up wiht two fighter jets tailing it, was on a city-approved photo-op. Unfortunately, neither the NYPD chiefs nor the FAA told anyone, resulting in this:"Unaware of the planned exercise, scores of office workers flooded out of buildings, worried about the prospect of terrorism. 'People came pouring out of the buildings, the American ExpressBuilding, all the buildings in the financial district by the water,'said Edward Acker, a photographer who was at the building, 3 WorldFinancial Center. 'And even the construction guys over by 100 North EndAvenue area, they all got out of their buildings. Nobody knew about it.Finally some guy showed up with a little megaphone to tell everyone itwas a test, but the people were not happy. The people who were here9/11 were not happy.' Mr. Acker added: 'New York City police were standing right there andthey had no knowledge of it. The evacuations were spontaneous. Guysfrom the floor came out, and one guy I talked to was just shaking.'” Video, AFTER THE JUMP...(image twitter via gawker)