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Boeing Debacle

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A frustrated Trump wants Boeing to deliver his new Air Force One pronto

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President Trump is furious about delays in delivering two new Air Force One jets.

He has empowered Elon Musk to explore drastic options to prod Boeing to move faster, including relaxing security clearance standards for some who work on the presidential planes.

The two heavily modified Boeing 747s currently used interchangeably to fly the president are more than 30 years old .

Trump and Musk have expressed their frustrations in a series of phone calls with the jet maker’s CEO, Kelly Ortberg , dating back to November , soon after his election victory.

Musk and Boeing have privately advocated removing top-level security clearance requirements for at least some of the people involved in the project.

Boeing is retrofitting two planes it had already built for a Russian buyer that went out of business.

A custom build might have helped avoid some of the time associated with rewiring and reconfiguring the plane.

The Air Force One project is considered a debacle inside Boeing , a company already reeling from a cascade of other disasters.

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