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Trump Takes Aim at Defense Contractors as He Looks to Speed Arms Production
Trump criticized slow U.S. weapons production, urging faster delivery to meet military and allied needs, citing waits of up to five years for aircraft and helicopters.
- On Tuesday, President Donald Trump at the Kennedy Center GOP retreat announced the U.S. will produce weapons much faster and told defense contractors `You're going to start building faster`.
- Citing long lead times, President Donald Trump noted four years for a plane and five years for a helicopter, saying `The problem is we don't produce them fast enough`.
- Trump invoked his Boeing salesmanship, calling himself `salesman of the year` and claiming to have sold over 1,000 planes.
- His remarks came amid the U.S. invasion of Venezuela, where nearly 200 U.S. forces entered Caracas in an operation commentators linked to oil interests involving U.S. oil companies.
- That stance follows President Donald Trump calling NATO members `decaying` and `weak`, while a coalition of seven NATO allies issued a joint statement supporting Denmark and Greenland Tuesday.
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