Air Force Stumped by Trump's Claim of $1 Billion Savings on Jet

The Air Force can’t account for $1 billion in savings that President Trump said he’s negotiated for the program to develop, purchase and operate two new Boeing jets to serve as Air Force One. Trump has boasted that he’s personally intervened to cut costs of two military aircraft: the F-35, the fighter jet built by Lockheed Martin, and Boeing’s Air Force One.

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Trump is using "Alternative Accounting"* to come up with the amount.


* Alternative Accounting: Also known as pulling a figure straight out of your rear with no actual facts whatsoever to back it up.