The President has lots of jobs, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, head of the executive branch of the government.

When he was President, Barack Obama joked about another job.

I'm expecting a gold watch from Boeing at the end of my presidency because I know that

I'm on the list of top salesman at Boeing.

Boeing is a huge part of the American economy.

It claims to be the country's biggest exporter. And then there are its suppliers, as Obama alluded

to at the same meeting of his Export Council where he made that salesman crack.

The small businesses are up and down the supply chain and are when we sell a bunch of airplanes,

a lot of small businesses and medium-sized businesses are benefiting from that as well.

And so American presidents have for years been cheerleaders for Boeing.

Here's Donald Trump at a Boeing plant in South Carolina in 2017.

May God bless the United States of America

and God bless Boeing.

The special relationship between the US government and Boeing came under scrutiny after two

crashes involving the 737 Max plane back in 2018 and 2019.

We must re-examine the current system that allowed

for a much too cozy relationship

between regulators and companies including Bowie.

That is then Senator Tom Udall, a Democrat from New Mexico at a hearing in 2020.

He's talking about the system that delegated some of the Federal Aviation Administration's

oversight responsibilities over Boeing to Boeing employees.

This continues to be a case study of the complete and total failure of self-regulation and I think

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