Two emergency fire trucks at LaGuardia airport sprayed water haphazardly in the air today over the President-elect Donald Trump’s plane. It’s called a “water cannon salute.” And I can’t think of a more fitting picture of waste for a man whose entire life can be summed up by decadence and empty gestures.



Water cannon salutes are typically used for important occasions to honor the people inside, or even the planes themselves—especially when they’re decommissioned. But it’s somewhat ironic that Trump would get a water cannon salute at an airport that he believes is one of the worst in the world.


“Our airports are like from a Third World country,” Trump said during the first presidential debate back in September. “You land at LaGuardia, you land at Kennedy, you land at LAX, you land at Newark and you come in from Dubai and Qatar and you see these incredible — you come in from China — you see these incredible airports and you land... we become a Third World country.”

Below you see a photo from July 2012 of a plane carrying the British Olympic swimming team being welcomed back to London.


(Photo by Scott Heavey/Getty Images)

Water cannon salutes usually look like two majestic streams of water flowing over an airplane, but as you can see from the ABC News video, one of the fire trucks seemed to be having some trouble getting its stream going. Either Trump was right about our airports being subpar, or the workers at LaGuardia were giving him the half-hearted send-off that he deserved.

