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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's refrigerator upgrade for Air Force One set to cost $24m
What hums, flies above 30,000ft, and costs about as much as Donald Trumps upstate New York manor?
Trumps new airplane refrigerators.
The Trump administration has signed a $24m contract with Boeing to replace two food chilling systems aboard Air Force One, the presidents plane, according to reports.
The systems are two of five such chillers aboard Air Force One, which must be equipped with a refrigeration capacity to handle 3,000 meals, according to military specifications.
Thats enough to feed the president and 50 of his closest friends three meals a day for three weeks. And thats assuming the president never indulged in his favorite plane fare: fast food.
The $24m price tag, upon which Boeing declined to comment, amounts to enough taxpayer money to fund an estimated eight weekends for the president at Mar-a-Lago, which Trump visited 11 times in his first year as president.
Or the cash could be used to provide security at Trump Tower in New York City, where the president no longer lives, for about two months.
Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/26/donald-trump-refrigerator-air-force-one
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)He would be impeached or hunted down by deplorables
Chief traitor does it and i bet not one fucking WORD will be uttered
Sophia4
(3,515 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)msongs
(67,417 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Didn't I just see his coolers at Mar a Lago were not keeping meat at the right temps? I think that was one of 15 violations. That same violation was called out last summer or fall, as well. That probably means he didn't get it fixed the first time.
How do these compare to commercial fridges? I know, I'm just so damned suspicious of everything anymore.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)How on earth can 2 refrigerators cost $24 million dollars. I can't even get my mind around that.
Igel
(35,320 posts)But then again, to preserve food for 3000 meals, on a plane, according to military specifications?
No idea what that would cost. Don't know military specifications. And I have to assume that there's redundant systems in there.
Also don't know how old the current systems are. I'm guessing these are fabricated to order, which means there's no economy of scale.
What's surprising is that it's for just 2 out of 5.
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)And be self defrosting too.
grumpyduck
(6,240 posts)but since there are two "identical" 747s used as AF1, I'm guessing the contract price is for both of them.
Still sucks.
mercuryblues
(14,532 posts)or for the AF1's about to be replaced?
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)Now, he wants to spend that kind of money for a goddamned refrigerator???