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Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Air Force One: Red White And Blue!

Air Force One is getting a redo with Trump's seal of approval.
Our dear imbecile Donald J. Trump wants to spend your taxpayer money to repaint Air Force One.

Trump confirmed in an interview that he wants the president's airplane painted red, white and blue.

In an interview with CBS News host Jeff Glor, Trump said that he wants a patriotic model for the presidential aircraft.

"I said, 'I wonder if we should use the same baby blue colors.' And we're not," Trump told Glor from his golf course in Scotland.

Trump's demands to repaint Air Force One is similar to the controversial military parade. He wants the U.S. military to organize a parade to come down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Air Force One saw a lot of international travel last week as the president attended a NATO summit in Belgium before proceeding to the United Kingdom.
Air Force One is my plane. 
According to Axios, the president met with Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg earlier this year to discuss using 747s as Air Force One. The deal would reportedly cost $4 billion and likely wouldn't lead to new planes being rolled out around 2021.

"Air Force One is going to be incredible," said Trump. "It's going to be top of the line, the top in the world, and it's going to be red, white and blue, which I think is appropriate."

Separately, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Wednesday that the Air Force has awarded a "firm fixed-price" contract to Boeing to design, modify, test, certify and deliver two presidential "mission-ready" aircraft by 2024. They'll replace the current Boeing 747 versions used by the president, which are 31 years old.

Sanders said the contract sets the total price for the two completed aircraft at $3.9 billion. She said that represents a savings of more than $1.4 billion from the $5.3 billion initially proposed.

Trump tweeted in December 2016, after he was elected, that costs for the program were "out of control, more than $4 billion." He added, "Cancel order!"

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