Did Boeing Get Out Of Line?

[deminks]

So, Boeing is critical of the Orange One, so the Orange One Tweets 'Cancel the Order for AF1'

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/did-boeing-get-out-of-line

This morning Donald Trump lashed out at Boeing claiming its budget for the successor to the current Air Force One is wildly overpriced.

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What prompted this?

It certainly seems that the number is off. But why did this have Trump's attention this morning? This seems like a relatively obscure issue given the range of things Trump is now working on. TPM Reader TC notes that The Chicago Tribune published this article about 20 minutes (at least according to the 7:30 AM central time timestamp; Trump tweeted at 8:52 AM eastern) before Trump tweeted.

The Tribune articles by Robert Reed starts like this ...

The brain trust at Boeing, among the city's largest companies and a global aerospace and defense powerhouse, must cringe every time President-elect Donald Trump riffs on foreign policy, especially when it comes to dealing with China.

Boeing has a high percentage of its manufacturing in the US. But it is highly dependent on exports, especially to China.

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[spanone]

1. his twitter account will be used to silence his critics...

agree with the donald-elect or face his twitter rants...

their stock dropped one-percent on his tweet....he's a dangerous POS

[liberalmuse]

2. God help us.

I live in WA, a huge Boeing employer. This is just fucking reckless to tweet shit like this. This guy is going to tank our economy. Anyone who owns stocks has to be wary of Trumps idiotic and ill-thought out tweets.

[kimbutgar]

6. Is this his revenge for Washington state not voting for him?

[liberalmuse]

8. My first thought.

There's also a Boeing plant in NC, so it could also be revenge for McCrory's loss.

[KT2000]

3. didn't he also get Congress

to cancel a 20 Boeing jet order for Iran.

[erpowers]

4. Part of Trump's Plan

He tweeted out that the cost of the plan would be $4 billion. Later, he will claim credit for reducing the price of two planes to $1.65 billion. He will use that as proof of his great negotiating skills. Even when people in the media and the left try to explain that the cost for two planes was always $1.65 billion, Trump supporters will say that is a lie. They will claim the liberal media and liberals do not want to give Trump credit for reducing spending by billion of dollars. They will also claim that the liberal media is trying to hide President Obama's incompetence and how much taxpayer money he was wasting and how Trump put a stop to all of that waste.

[COLGATE4]

5. Absolutely spot on

And the worst part is that all the euphemistically-titled 'low information voters' will lap it up and scream for more. Aided and abetted by the sloppy, lazy, $-driven media.

[liberalmuse]

9. This.

He's a scam artist and pathological liar.

[TubbersUK]

10. Anything is possible it would seem

He certainly has the contacts to facilitate a stunt:

Trump creates business advisory council stacked with CEOs

President-elect Donald Trump announced the formation of a council to advise him on job creation, a group comprised of the leaders of a variety of major U.S. corporations including GE, GM, Boeing, Disney and IBM.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-ceos-idUSKBN13R2D4

[Skittles]

7. he is a child

a spoiled, rich child

[Glassunion]

11. Boeing should cut costs, use inferior materials, and skip out on safety testing.

This will get the price down.

[marybourg]

12. The Chicago Times printing:

"The brain trust at Boeing, . . . must cringe every time . . ." doesn't really reflect on Boeing. Only on the writer and the Chicago Times.

He needs a lesson in reading for content, in addition to everything else he lacks.

[BSdetect]

13. It takes very little to rile the orange-utan

[sarcasmo]

14. Follow the money. Boeing stock price took a hit.