President Trump Believes The F-35 Should Make Everything In The U.S.

F-35A performs high speed pass

Breaking Defense: Trump On F-35: ‘We Should Make Everything’ In US

"All because President [Barack] Obama and others — I’m not just blaming him — thought it was a wonderful thing,” President Trump said. “The problem is, if we have a problem with a country, you can’t make the jet. We get parts from all over the place. It’s so crazy."

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump delivered a garbled and misleading critique of the F-35’s supply chain today, casting the flexible and redundant international supply chain among allies as a program weakness he planned to fix. The president offered his summary of the F-35 supply chain in an interview with Fox News primarily focused on the global supply chain and China’s role in it.

“I’m very disappointed in China,” the president said in an interview broadcast today on Fox Business Network.

“They should have never let this happen. So I make a great trade deal and now I say this doesn’t feel the same to me. The ink was barely dry and the plague came over. And it doesn’t feel the same to me,” Trump said.

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WNU Editor: The original intention was good. The countries that build the parts will also buy the fighter jet. Unfortunately. Turkey has proven to be a major flaw in that calculation.