When Trump won the election, Boeing was set to make the new Air Force One for the president-elect. However, the company asked for a whopping $4 billion to replace the current presidential aircraft. Trump wouldn’t stand for this and promptly told Boeing that he was canceling the order, saving taxpayers millions. As if this wasn’t impressive enough, the company’s CEO came crawling back and promised to make the plane for well under the sum they previously demanded:
“Dennis Muilenburg, the Boeing CEO, praised Trump for his “business head” and said the two had a very productive meeting where they discussed how the country could build two new Air Force One planes for less than the $4 billion, which Trump criticized on Twitter this month.
“We’re going to get it done for less than that,” Muilenburg said. “I was able to give the president-elect my personal commitment on behalf of the Boeing Company. This is a business that’s important to us. We work on Air Force One because it’s important to our country and we’re going to make sure that he gets the best capability and that it’s done affordably.”
When asked about the timeline, Muilenburg said “that’s what we’re going to work on together.”
“We have an active 747 production line and we’re eager to get started on the program. We haven’t actually started the build of the airplane yet, but once we finalize the requirements and make sure that it’s affordable we’ll launch on building the aircraft. We’ve got a hot production line and we’re ready to go.”
The meeting comes weeks after Trump tweeted that the costs of the F-35 from Lockheed Martin are “out of control” and threatened to cancel the order with Boeing for the new Air Force One over costs.”
Source: Washington Examiner
Leonard Eacker, why would you or any working class person support a political candidate that believes American workers are making too much money and thinks that cutting taxes on the millionaire class is more important than raising the minimum wage, having access to health care that we can actually afford, making education more affordable or expanding Social Security and Veterans benefits?
Even the airlines retire jets at 20 years, the pressurization cycles causes metal fatigue. The current planes are 20 and will be going on 30 by the time they are replaced.
https://www.wired.com/2016/12/mr-trump-heres-really-want-spend-4-billion-air-force-one/
Same as f%#$&:; Democrat’s.
Yup
U r a SPECIAL KIND OF STUPID EVIL
Yeah, same on the F 35. Cost down sharply… millions.
WHERE IS THE BOEING PLANT LOCATED…..I KNOW FACTORIES THAT MAKE PARTS WERE IN THE MIDDLE EAST….I KNOW HOW RELIABLE IS THAT..?
Why have they released one of them already ? Same thing in the Paris attacks and here, they always report more than one attacker , but then only one is arrested .