President Donald Trump toured a new Boeing plane on Saturday to inspect its hardware and technology, a familiar source told Breitbart News.
The short tour will take place in the morning, with sources emphasizing to Breitbart News that the company was unable to produce a new air force a few years after the contract was finalized in 2018. He said that.
“President Trump is expected to easily tour the new Boeing Plane to check out new hardware/technology, which delivers new Air Force 1 on time as promised. Emphasizing that it can't be done, familiar sources write Breitbart News. Washington Director Matthew Boyle in an X post shortly before Trump checked out the plane.
Speaking to reporters in the oval office on Wednesday, Trump spoke about his complaints about Boeing's failure to produce two alternative presidential aircraft in his 2018 contract.
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“You know, Boeing, we're not happy with the services we get from the perspective of those planes. They want to make more money. We're not happy about all of that,” Trump said. said.
“We have signed a very strong contract. I have signed a guaranteed maximum contract they haven't seen in a long time, and they say they're hurt by it, but they We have to produce our products,” he added.
Trump noted that in his first term he negotiated that the price of the new Air Force, which is not yet completed, would fall from $5.7 billion to about $4 billion.
“They agreed to build planes at a certain price. They're not used to it. They're used to getting time and material contracts,” Trump said, and time and material. Adding a contract will result in a cost of “more than five times”.
According to the Associated Press, the plane is Finished We recorded three years behind in 2027 and 2028. They were originally scheduled to be completed in 2024 and 2025. The two Air Force I planes currently in use are over 30 years old according to the outlet.
Trump on Wednesday also cited the ability to cut $1.7 billion from the $1.7 billion negotiations as an example of how the US government can cut waste on a massive scale.
“If people care, they can do that with every deal placed before them and we won't have a deficit,” Trump said. “We're going to have only great countries with very low taxes, but they have to care.”
