Remember when Trump cancelled the new Air Force One planes?

[procon]

He said the Boeing price to build the next generation of presidential aircraft was too high at $3.2 billio and hinted that they padded the bill, decrying the deal as too expensive. Then he boasted he got Boeing to cut $1 billion off the cost. What a deal, right?

It goes without saying that Trump lied.

The cost of Trump's new Air Force One has skyrocketed nearly $2 billion from the original estimate

The new Air Force One will cost the Pentagon $5.2 billion, according to the Defence Department’s first formal acquisition report for the aircraft.
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While Trump has said his new designs for Air Force One were for the benefit of future presidents, there’s been little discussion about what the upgrades actually are, besides a new paint job. The new paint job looks quite a bit like the one on Trump’s personal jet, a Boeing 757.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/air-force-one-pentagon-52-billion-2019-8

[CentralMass]

1. Boeing probably has some good deals on the 737 Max

[ret5hd]

7. Maybe a BOGO???

[CentralMass]

8. :-)

[FiveGoodMen]

18. I see that a bunch of us had that same thought!

[dalton99a]

2. So the new Air Force One will cost $5.2 billion

Best negotiator ever

[KY_EnviroGuy]

10. The latest design has an on-board McDonald's.

............

[NewJeffCT]

13. It's really $1.2 billion

with $4 billion in kickbacks to the Trump families and paydowns on debt owed to Russian mobsters.

[Snake Plissken]

3. Everything Trump touches turns to shit

He's never negotiated anything in his life without getting his ass handed to him

[SCantiGOP]

4. What a dealmaker

This is why he has achieved such a great trade deal with China, and de-nuked North Korea, and overthrown the governments of Venezuela and Iran, and built a huge beautiful wall, and and and and......

[barbtries]

5. follow them money

because i swear trump is getting kickbacks from all this profligate spending.

how many families could be lifted out of poverty for 5.2 billion dollars. that's too much.

[Scarsdale]

16. Time is overdue for an

audit of the Pentagon budget. Seems they have all sorts of extra money, for AF1, plus the Wall. Do they cry "poverty" every year during budget negotiations? Paying hundreds of $$$$ over price of tools and equipment than normal dealerships. More taxpayer money is spent on them than any other department. Boeing? Didn't they do a crappy job on their latest plane?

[chowder66]

19. a few trillion will go missing once the audit is underway. nt

[Celerity]

22. Related

MSU SCHOLARS FIND $21 TRILLION IN UNAUTHORIZED GOVERNMENT SPENDING; DEFENSE DEPARTMENT TO CONDUCT FIRST-EVER AUDIT

https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2017/msu-scholars-find-21-trillion-in-unauthorized-government-spending-defense-department-to-conduct/

[stillcool]

6. I think those "improvements"

are heading to an off-shore account.

[Hekate]

9. All those gold fixtures cost a bunch, you know. You have to pay for wretched excess. nt

[0rganism]

11. "...by grabthar's hammer... what a savings"

[Historic NY]

12. The great negotiator strikes again

demands it be done sooner.

[SunSeeker]

14. K & R for exposure.

[slumcamper]

15. HEY--we need to lighten up on him!

After all, we are all WINNING, so bigly, you know?!

(better add this, as it's difficult to discern any humor in orangestain's antics: )

[tinrobot]

17. They're now padding the bill to pay him off.

Mark my words.

[Grasswire2]

20. He will never use them anyway.

This is like the obsessive thing he has always had about fabric swatches and decor. Books of fabric swatches....

[Grasswire2]

21. this

[link:https://theweek.com/speedreads/840555/trump-perused-fabric-swatches-empire-burned-1990-ghostwriter-says|

[Celerity]

23. Congress has to approve all this. I doubt it happens. Fuck Trump.

[NCLefty]

24. Golf Force One.