This ought to rattle the WA state libs today.
Trump’s jet is a 757...Not a 747.
Too much winning! Can’t stand it. Need a safe space.
He should also offer the use of his personal airplane to the Obama family after his inauguration. Leave that big 747 sitting in its hangar at Andrews.
The President should fly around on something small and agile (relatively speaking). Something like a Gulfstream G650. With the miniaturization of electronics, you don’t need a 747 to haul around communications gear.
If the Air Force needs a flying command post, that is a separate mission.
And the Press Corps can fly commercial.
Negotiation.
We’ll be seeing a lot of it in the next 8 years.
Bombastic? Raucous? No editorial slant there /s
Look for the current plane to have “engine problems” and require an emergency landing.
If the President really wanted to make a statement, he could fly the most advanced American airliner, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
We are selling Dreamliners all over the World. Nobody will ever buy another new 747 for passenger travel. The design is obsolete.
Jonah Goldberg is on Fox right now, babbling incoherently about this story.
What a waste of oxygen!
Trump can afford the trappings of the Presidency. All the bozos that came before him couldn’t.
The AP writer doesn’t understand how executive level office terms work. I’m shocked.
“The contract for the planes was to be about $3 billion, but costs have been reported to be rising.”
Finally after 35 years putting in that escape pod?
The author uses the article to criticize the lack of experience of Trump’s cabinet picks.
Let’s look at the experience level of Obama and his cabinet picks.
Obama - Community rabble rouser and no-show Senator elected via a series of fixed political contests.
Sell the two buses Zero bought and never used while your at it!
Ummm, guys. Lets not get overly excited.
A tweet, even if from the President elect, does NOT cancel a contract. There are REAMS of laws on government contracts and what it takes to cancel a contract and who gets paid what when that happens.
Ruh-roh! Now, Boeing will be out to get him.
MAGA!
Over 8 YEARS to build a plane? That’s a lot of overhead and indirect costs that get added on. Why does it take longer than 2 years if using off the shelf commercial electronics?