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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Fri Aug 9, 2019, 02:21 AM Aug 2019

Master-negotiator Trump whittled price for next Air Force One from 4 billion down to 5.2 billion.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/8/1877431/-Surprise-After-Trump-s-bragged-about-deal-new-Air-Force-One-bill-soars-to-5-2-billion

Donald Trump has put in a great deal of effort in bragging that he was able, through his Unparalleled Business Guy Powers, to slash the price of the newly planned Air Force One planes by over a billion dollars. (He did this by asking Boeing to lower the price, something that no past leader had ever considered. Truly, a master of the art form.)

Surprise! The cost of the new planes, which was once said to be $3.2 billion after Trump said he had negotiated it down from about $4 billion, but which his staff claimed was actually going to be $5 billion in order to support Trump's claim that he was saving $1.4 billon, actually turns out to be $5.2 billion.
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Master-negotiator Trump whittled price for next Air Force One from 4 billion down to 5.2 billion. (Original Post) DetlefK Aug 2019 OP
The title of this OP... LuckyCharms Aug 2019 #1
lol. a negative discount Demovictory9 Aug 2019 #2
More (not) Winning! B Stieg Aug 2019 #3
Gold fixtures jack up the price pretty quickly. Midnight Writer Aug 2019 #4
Right up there with his promise safeinOhio Aug 2019 #5
And they thought no one could bankrupt the Air Force . . . Vinca Aug 2019 #6
Glad drumpf won't ever have the opportunity to fly in it! democratisphere Aug 2019 #7
Sit them down, give them a cup of covfefe, and they are putty in your hands DFW Aug 2019 #8
The article at the link is nearly unreadable. former9thward Aug 2019 #9
Whelp.... installing a fully functional McDonalds Takket Aug 2019 #10
He actually did negotiate the price down to $3 billion NewJeffCT Aug 2019 #11

DFW

(53,932 posts)
8. Sit them down, give them a cup of covfefe, and they are putty in your hands
Fri Aug 9, 2019, 08:44 AM
Aug 2019

Trump had those greedy Boeing execs right where he wanted them, so he gave them everything they wanted.

Now THERE is a businessman if ever I saw one! I heard he came close to selling Mississippi to the Chinese for $10. The deal didn't go through because China wouldn't go that extra dollar, but they were CLOSE!

former9thward

(31,684 posts)
9. The article at the link is nearly unreadable.
Fri Aug 9, 2019, 08:46 AM
Aug 2019

But aside from that it contains no link whatsoever to any of the figures used in the article. Where are they getting it from?

NewJeffCT

(56,827 posts)
11. He actually did negotiate the price down to $3 billion
Fri Aug 9, 2019, 08:53 AM
Aug 2019

the $2.2 billion extra is for kickbacks to his family and to help pay down his loans to Russian mobsters and Saudi princes.

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