Taxpayers charged $34 million to make Trump's backup jets more 'presidential'

[highplainsdem]

Source: Raw Story

With the announcement of a new Boeing contract to “update” Air Force Two, the Pentagon is slated to spend $34 million taxpayer dollars to make Donald Trump’s presidential jets fancier.

Defense One reported that over the past 14 months, the Defense Department has spent tens of millions of dollars contracting aircraft monolith Boeing to “refurbish” the interiors of two backup Air Force One planes that are frequently used by the vice president and cabinet officials.

The most recent contract, as first reported by the Washington Examiner, is for more than $16 million to create an “appearance more commensurate with [the] presidential section” of Air Force One on the twin-engine 757. According to the Pentagon, the latest Boeing contract will include “upgraded interior elements,” “refurbished interior elements” and “painting and cleaning.”

This isn’t the first of such contracts the DOD has taken out with Boeing. Defense One noted that on June 30, 2017, the Pentagon awarded the corporation nearly $18 million for “engineering support services for refurbishment of the interior” of the other backup Air Force One.

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Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/taxpayers-charged-34-million-make-trumps-backup-jets-presidential/

[Turbineguy]

1. The interior was deemed

insufficiently grotesque and more fake gold leaf had to be applied.

[xxqqqzme]

4. My first thought as well.

n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Watch. It will look like the inside of Traitor tot's gold toilet.

When he is removed, we will have to spend more money to remove the tacky.

[relayerbob]

8. The Clorox alone will eat up a large percentage of the national budget

[catrose]

3. And when I think of the Roosevelts

who served tuna fish at the inauguration (probably Eleanor's idea) and left the White House in its shabby state rather than redecorate during the Depression...such a contrast

[KY_EnviroGuy]

5. This is what tRump would call "winning".

......... ........

[SunSeeker]

6. No amount of money can make Trump more presidential. nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. How many mirrors can they possibly fit in there?

[YOHABLO]

9. People of Trump's ilk are all about facade, nothing of substance. He's not the f..ing CEO of the U.S

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

10. For the last time, THERE'S ONLY ONE AIR FORCE ONE, and it's not the plane

sitting on the ramp. It's the one carrying the President of the United States, whether it's the modified 747 -- designated a VC-25 by the Air Force -- or a twin-engine Cessna. The call sign is attached to the person, not the hardware.

The "Air Force One" call sign was created after a 1953 incident during which a Lockheed Constellation named Columbine II, carrying President Dwight D. Eisenhower, entered the same airspace as a commercial airline flight using the same flight number.

Plans for the renovated VC-25 have been released:







I like the mirror over the bed. Of course, Melania has her own bedroom:

[Spartacus101]

13. It IS Him...

.. Marcus Crassus IS back!

OK, Mr. Crassus, no more paying off the Silesian pirates at Mentapontum this time...

[keithbvadu2]

11. Maybe Donald thought it was a "dump" like he called the White House?

[tclambert]

12. "I want a tiger skin rug, and elephant tusks forming arches over every door . . .

and top quality paintings of me on every wall, and gold-colored paint on everything."

"And KFC and two scoops of ice cream whenever I want them."