Who would have known that by simply using the bully pulpit to negotiate better prices for the American people, an American President could squeeze those greedy bastards into submission.
In what is clearly becoming a trend, President-elect Trump took to Twitter today to threaten the hawks at $LMT and their absurd F-35 project, which is $100s of billions behind budget, by saying he was in talks with $BA to discuss replacing it entirely with the F-18.
Based on the tremendous cost and cost overruns of the Lockheed Martin F-35, I have asked Boeing to price-out a comparable F-18 Super Hornet!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 22, 2016
Share are down sharply in the after-hours, as a result.
Trump recently clashed with the clowns at Boeing over their Airforce 1 boondoggle, which was on schedule to cost in excess of $4b. Every since he tweeted the cost and threatened to cancel the order, Boeing reached out to Trump and issued a statement saying costs would come way down.
“We’re going to get it done for less than that, and we’re committed to working together to make sure that happens,” said Dennis Muilenburg, after the meeting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
Clearly, Trump is trying to get better deals for the American people for its largest line item expense, defense spending. America has wars to fight and numerous countries to bomb. Defense spending, including the wars, nears $1 trillion per annum. Fucking ridiculous.
I met some really great Air Force GENERALS and Navy ADMIRALS today, talking about airplane capability and pricing. Very impressive people!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 22, 2016
Compare that to Russia’s $66b per annum in defense spending, and anyone can clearly see that something is off when taking into consideration the democrats’ and the media’s agenda to demonize Russia — as if they actually posed a threat to our hegemony.
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The art of the deal.
No years long bullshit negotiations needed when a good public shaming can accomplish more in 140 words or less.
Lol.
Krek, Kok, Kook or whatever that frog is …gitten r dun
Notice that meanwhile our “Golfer In Chief” was conveniently asleep at the wheel! All this while we get ass rape with global warming shit and ACA crap!
Have you seen Russia’s one clunky old aircraft carrier? It looks like it runs on coal… They have a shit load of nukes though.
You see, WWIII will start off conventional and quickly accelerate to Nuclear.
lol
One crash about every 15 landings. They will have to go back to Russia to fetch more planes. But the Aircraft carrier may not have enough fuel to make it back to home port. Russia still doesn’t have a blue water navy, but their subs are stealthy.
Vodka will soon be flying off the shelf. Tequila not so much. Trade accordingly.
America indeed has wars to fight and countries to bomb, but let’s not forget, most importantly, elections to meddle into. There have only been 81 such foreign meddlings between 1946 and 2000. https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2016/12/22/the-u-s-interfered-in-foreign-presidential-elections-81-times-from-1946-2000/