[pissant]

If you Google search 'Air FOrce One Trump' this article does not appear. Google is trying to hide it. If you Google 'air force one, "trump is right"' then it appears - without the "trump is right" part of the title. The little commie pricks working at Google need a knuckle sammich.

[ColdOne]

why does af1 need 700 passengers seating abilty?

[Rennes Templar]

Two billion for an airplane is ridiculous, unless it can fly to the moon.

[Paladin2]

Trump wins another one against the mob of ankle biters.

[Pinkbell]

Will the liberal who mocked him apologize?

Don’t hold your breath, folks.

[PGR88]

America is not an empire. Our President doesn’t need a flying castle

This is just one of a million examples how government and everyone connected with it sucks a nation dry.

[Enlightened1]

Plus Boeing was in the process of moving to China.

This is because they could not move to South Carolina? Remember that?

[buffaloguy]

The contract is for aircraft, 2 for Trump 2 for Pence.

Af1 only looks like a 747. Internally it is beefed up to withstand close nuclear blast.

1. It is the command and control center for our country in time of war.
2. It must be able to communicate with our armed forces when under duress.

It is an amazing aircraft and worth every penny.

Nesides. A billion just isn’t what it used to be

[butlerweave]

How about a small very fast Air Force One

[txrefugee]

If there is a nuclear blast, most of our mostly-worthless members of the House & Senate want to be on that survival flight with the President. The rest of us are expendable.

[dfwddr]

The current Air Force One planes will reach the end of their expected useful lives in 2017.

So what does POTUS ride until these are ready in 2021 ??

[JoeProBono]

[bgill]

replace the pair of aging 'Air Force One' planes

Poor planning for both to be old.

[SkyPilot]

The follow on maintenance contracts are big money as well. BIG MONEY. Boeing has a similar deal for the C-17. I know folks who work for Boeing. They want to ring the neck of their clueless CEO. He did an interview with the Chicago Tribune, and criticized Trump, telling him to “back off” from his Asian trade rhetoric. 20 minutes minutes later, Trump issued his Tweet.

[AndyJackson]

Here is the cost breakdown:

• 'Research, Development, Test & Evaluation' costs amounting to $2.872 billion
• 'Other' line-items described as 'facilities' costs add $330 million to the project
• A final $1.062 billion is found in a 2015 procurement request, meant to pay for the actual construction of a pair of Air Force One jets on Boeing 747 frames

  What is amusing is that folks have challenged Trumps assertions and question how he could possibly know. It's intended to be a replacement for his airplane as President. If he says it's not worth it, well who is to argue. "No dear, that evening dress that you really want is not too expensive."

  It's just that we have never had anyone express the outrage that should be expressed at the cost of this stuff. They keep talking about supporting the warfighter. The closest warfighter to the Pentagon is in Quantico, and I am astonished that a brigade of marines don't march north, invest the Pentagon, throw the bums [the marines might use family inappropriate language here] out on their bums and try to get the stuff the "war-fighter" really needs at a reasonable price and on a reasonable schedule without the 100% - 200% skim off the top by the DC kleptocracy.

[Revolutionary]

They should not cost more than $1B apiece.

[Seattle Conservative]

I won’t use google and never have (they used to have major privacy issues per various governments).

I did a search on bing for Air Force One Trump and a lot of articles came up:
http://www.bing.com/search?q=air+force+one+trump&src=IE-TopResult&FORM=IETR02&conversationid=

[rhoda_penmark]

Everyone realizes, don’t they, that this aircraft was custom ordered for Hilary Clinton?

[central_va]

A CVN (air craft carrier) costs $6Billion. How can just two aircraft possibly cost over half of what a CVN costs?