Donald Trump has long had a thing about Air Force One. He denigrated the presidential jet on the campaign trail, calling it "a step down...in every way" from his own plane, a gilded Boeing 757. He mocked Air Force One's fuel-guzzling engines and blasted President Obama for taking it to campaign rallies and on vacation. Then, one Tuesday in December, after Trump won the presidency but before he had a chance to ride on the aircraft, he picked up his Android phone and tweeted about a nascent project to replace the presidential jet with an even more powerful and capable craft. "Costs are out of control, more than $4 billion," he wrote at 8:52 a.m. "Cancel order!"
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