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bathroommonkey76

(3,827 posts)
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 07:13 PM Jan 2018

Trump's refrigerator upgrade for Air Force One set to cost $24m

What hums, flies above 30,000ft, and costs about as much as Donald Trump’s upstate New York manor?

Trump’s new airplane refrigerators.

The Trump administration has signed a $24m contract with Boeing to replace two food chilling systems aboard Air Force One, the president’s 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.

That’s enough to feed the president and 50 of his closest friends three meals a day for three weeks. And that’s 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

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Trump's refrigerator upgrade for Air Force One set to cost $24m (Original Post) bathroommonkey76 Jan 2018 OP
Like we all agree , if Obama had done this the country would have come to a halt Eliot Rosewater Jan 2018 #1
Deplorable! Sophia4 Jan 2018 #2
Bet you never hear a word about this here in US media lunasun Jan 2018 #3
make them all eat MRE's. good enough for the "troops" good enough for those elites nt msongs Jan 2018 #4
Gee whiz, Trump really has a lot of problems with fridges... Frustratedlady Jan 2018 #5
Is that with or without an ice cube maker? Scurrilous Jan 2018 #6
SICK! smirkymonkey Jan 2018 #7
Can't wrap my mind around it, either. Igel Jan 2018 #8
They better dispense water and ice for that price Generic Brad Jan 2018 #9
I'm not defending the price (I think it's outrageous) grumpyduck Jan 2018 #10
Are these the new AF 1's mercuryblues Jan 2018 #11
Didn't that asshole cancel the replacement plane for AF1? GoCubsGo Jan 2018 #12

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
1. Like we all agree , if Obama had done this the country would have come to a halt
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 07:16 PM
Jan 2018

He would be impeached or hunted down by deplorables

Chief traitor does it and i bet not one fucking WORD will be uttered

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
5. Gee whiz, Trump really has a lot of problems with fridges...
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 07:43 PM
Jan 2018

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.

Igel

(35,320 posts)
8. Can't wrap my mind around it, either.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 08:53 PM
Jan 2018

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.

grumpyduck

(6,240 posts)
10. I'm not defending the price (I think it's outrageous)
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 09:44 PM
Jan 2018

but since there are two "identical" 747s used as AF1, I'm guessing the contract price is for both of them.

Still sucks.

GoCubsGo

(32,086 posts)
12. Didn't that asshole cancel the replacement plane for AF1?
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 10:26 PM
Jan 2018

Now, he wants to spend that kind of money for a goddamned refrigerator???

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