Donald Trump presidency: Boeing and his chaos theory
Donald Trump presidency: Boeing and his chaos theory They were so fed up with the status quo that they took a gamble on someone who had never held elected office. It was a metaphorical "let's throw everything in the air and see how it lands - it can't be worse than it is". Mr Trump is already delivering on his promise to be a disrupter. In threatening to cancel a multi-billion-dollar contract (caveat - I've grown wary of using Mr Trump's tweeted figures, in this instance $4bn, until they are fact checked), Mr Trump hit at one of the historic symbols of US presidential power. Swooping in to a foreign country in Air Force One is what American presidents do, except maybe this one won't. Mr Trump is very happy with his own plane, which after all has his name emblazoned on the side, not that of some generic office. Boeing's shares slid 1% on the prospect of the deal being cancelled. But it was only 1%, not 5%. Maybe Mr Trump is ri...