 In December of 2016, he tweeted, ?Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion. At a rally in Florida this month, Trump claimed to have made serious headway on the issue, lowering the price of Air Force One by more than $1 billion: ?We've got that price down by over $1 billion and I probably haven't spoken for more than an hour on the project. The Pentagon document shows that Boeing has already been paid more than $1 billion for the airframes, and the Air Force expects to spend an additional $2.9 billion over the next five years to complete the planes.
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