http://www.boeing.com/company/about-bca/
747-8 pricetag: $378.5M
Two aircraft for Air Force 1 usage at the base price: $757M
Price inflation for luxury accommodations, actual communications needs, and traditional military cost overruns: 4.2B - 0.7B = $3.5B
If Donald Trump says that a plane has too much useless luxury at too high a price, perhaps we should listen. He knows luxury and knows what it costs. We could go with a little less chrome and mahogany.
In terms of the bigger picture, it does not seem like anyone on the left listens to what President Trump says (even less than they listen to other republicans). They listen long enough to attack on his topic and don’t bother checking whether he has a point. This will be an interesting eight years.
... and that is LIST price what do you think is the chances are that any buyer actual pays list price?