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dOnald tRump has some how managed to negotiate the price of the new Air Force One up by over a billion dollars.
That's some masterful negotiation right there.
Art of the Bum Deal: Donald Trump has managed to increase the cost of Air Force One by $1 billion
However, the true cost of two new Air Force One planes, was budgeted at $2.87 billion. Though some estimates put the total at $3.73 billion by the time of completion in 2026, that still didn’t put it to the number Trump was throwing around. But Trump was okay with that. According to him, “Boeing is doing a little bit of a number” and trying to make too much money off the contract. But Trump would show them who was boss.
Even before he sat down in the Oval Office, Trump claimed that he had been on the phone with Boeing and chopped down that big number. It was a claim he repeated several times in his first few months in office—his go-to example of his negotiating skills.
However, within a few weeks, the White House website had chopped Trump savings from “over a billion” to “millions.” And now, Donald Trump has completed his negotiations, coming up with a new price of … $3.9 billion. That’s right. After two years of negotiation, Donald Trump’s price is a billion dollars higher than where he started. No wonder everyone loves to negotiate with Trump.
That's some masterful negotiation right there.
Art of the Bum Deal: Donald Trump has managed to increase the cost of Air Force One by $1 billion