If there’s anything Trump loves, it’s making his mark on things. He still has a firm belief — despite all of the people and places that have distanced themselves from him — that his name and likeness carry value outside just his circle of supporters.

I doubt he’ll ever believe otherwise.

But one thing he was never able to accomplish while president was to repaint the traditional transportation for the office of the presidency, Air Force One, in his own color scheme.

The light-blue-and-white paint job currently adorning the presidential plane has been in place (well, kept as a scheme, anyway) for more than 60 years. That’s since Kennedy was president.

The current colors were good enough for Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush Jr., and Obama. Trump wanted to change it to his signature red, white, and dark blue back in 2019, but never got there. Biden, of course, kept it the same as well.

But one insider, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Politico that Trump would make it happen this time.

The insider, a former senior official in the Trump administration who is still close with the former president, told the news outlet “Absolutely, 100 percent” when asked whether Trump would try to change the colors again.

It would be expensive and require not just a regular paint job, but expensive design changes as well. Even if (God forbid) Trump WAS elected this November, he might not see the day the new plane was ready before the end of what would be his final term.

Why would a color change require design changes to the plane itself? Well, Boeing, the maker of the planes, says that the dark blue undercarriage would increase the temperature of the belly of the plane and its engines. Modifications to cooling components would have to be first designed, then installed.

What strikes me as odd is that there’s no outcry from conservatives about government waste when it comes to this.

After all, it’s unnecessary. We’ve been just fine for a few generations with the same color palette. It would just be a vanity project for the most vain of all American presidents in history.

In typical form after Biden scrapped the plans Trump had laid out to change the plane before, his team focused on the symbolism of the colors, not the cost. “Sounds like Joe Biden hates the Red, White, and Blue,” said Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung.

Next he’ll want a green in the back half of the plane to practice his putts.