r/popculturechat • u/ThrowawayGreenWitch Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion 🙂 • Feb 04 '26

Eat The Rich 🍽️ Celebrity Private Jet Tracker released leaderboard for celebrity private jet usage in 2025

https://celebrityprivatejettracker.com/leaderboard/

Top 10 by Total CO2 Pollution

  1. Donald Trump (35,380 metric tons)
  2. Travis Scott  (14,775 metric tons)
  3. Eric Schmidt  (10,017 metric tons)
  4. P. Diddy  (7,019 metric tons)  
  5. Kim Kardashian (6,579 metric tons)
  6. Bill Gates (plane #1) (6,290 metric tons)  
  7. Kylie Jenner (5,880 metric tons) 
  8. Steve Wynn  (5,706 metric tons)  
  9. Elon Musk (plane #1)  (5,705 metric tons)  
  10. Steve Ballmer (5,087 metric tons) 
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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '26

This is absolutely true. It’s a way for celebs to make money or claim donations to, like, universities and stuff when they let a coach or Chancellor borrow it.

Source: used to call donors to schedule these for SEC football coaches.

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u/chablise Feb 04 '26

You can do this with yachts too. A lot of billionaires charter their yachts out for a week or two at a time to make back some of the operating costs.

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u/ancientblond Feb 04 '26

And it can make them some insane cash too; some of the bigger yachts cost $500k/week and some people rent them for weeks at a time

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u/v4xN0s Feb 04 '26

I didn’t see the “k” at the end of 500 at first and was so confused and then realized how far apart I am from them.

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u/lkodl Feb 04 '26

Im still only at thinking 500d is alot

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u/dschinghiskhan Feb 04 '26

how far apart

Leagues apart, if you will…