Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, President Trump defended getting an airplane from Qatar.
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00:00The money being much less important, because I made that money.
00:03I went to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and UAE, and we brought back $5.1 trillion.
00:12So I made that money in about two hours, the money that we're talking about.
00:15But it's still three, think of it, $300 billion we've spent.
00:20With no checks, no balances, they just send cash.
00:24You can imagine what's happened to that money.
00:27I never saw anything like it in my life.
00:28But I'm more interested, because I picked up $5.1 trillion.
00:34And by the way, got a beautiful, big, magnificent, free airplane for the United States Air Force.
00:40Okay?
00:41Very proud of that, too.
00:42They tried to say, oh, it's Trump's airplane.
00:44Oh, yeah.
00:45Sure.
00:46It's too big.
00:47Frankly, it's too big.
00:48Much too big.
00:49When can we expect that to be the Air Force One?
00:51Well, it's here already.
00:53It's in the country.
00:54It's being refitted for military standard.
00:57How much will it cost to refit it?
00:59Oh, I don't know.
01:00Whatever it is, a hell of a lot less than building a new one.
01:02We're waiting too long from Boeing.
01:04Boeing has got to get its act together.
01:05We're waiting too long from Boeing.
01:06Boeing has got to get its act together.