President Donald Trump shared his excitement for the inaugural flight of the new Air Force One, a luxury jet donated by the government of Qatar, saying the US “couldn’t build a plane like this.”
“I’m excited about the first flight,” he told reporters ahead of his flight to North Dakota for an America 250 celebration.
“They just completed it. They made it appropriate for a president, that means the security and all of the different bells and whistles they put on. Very complex now, but it’s really quite something,” he added.
Trump, who is expected to use the plane until a new US-built plane is finished in about two years, said there has “never been a plane like it.”
“Frankly, we couldn’t build a plane like this because we wouldn’t be willing to spend the kind of money necessary. They spent top dollars,” he said of the Qataris.
