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POTUS: "All United State Defense Contractors, and the Defense Industry as a whole, BEWARE
Posted on 1/7/26 at 2:10 pm
Posted on 1/7/26 at 2:10 pm
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If tweet fails to load, click here. All United State Defense Contractors, and the Defense Industry as a whole, BEWARE: While we make the best Military Equipment in the World (No other Country is even close!), Defense Contractors are currently issuing massive Dividends to their Shareholders and massive Stock Buybacks, at the expense and detriment of investing in Plants and Equipment. This situation will no longer be allowed or tolerated!
Also, Executive Pay Packages in the Defense Industry are exorbitant and unjustifiable given how slowly these Companies are delivering vital Equipment to our Military, and our Allies. Salaries, Stock Options, and every other form of Compensation are far too high for these Executives. Defense Companies are not producing our Great Military Equipment rapidly enough and, once produced, not maintaining it properly or quickly. From this moment forward, these Executives must build NEW and MODERN Production Plants, both for delivering and maintaining this important Equipment, and for building the latest Models of future Military Equipment. Until they do so, no Executive should be allowed to make in excess of $5 Million Dollars which, as high as it sounds, is a mere fraction of what they are making now. Additionally, the maintenance and repair of Equipment, once sold, is far too slow, and must be immediately enhanced. As President, I am demanding that maintenance be “spot on, on time.”
Therefore, I will not permit Dividends or Stock Buybacks for Defense Companies until such time as these problems are rectified — Likewise, for Salaries and Executive Compensation. MILITARY EQUIPMENT IS NOT BEING MADE FAST ENOUGH! It must be built now with the Dividends, Stock Buybacks, and Over Compensation of Executives, rather than borrowing from Financial Institutions, or getting the money from your Government. Longer term, this is good for both Executives and Shareholders, because it will be GREAT for our Country! Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Posted on 1/7/26 at 2:13 pm to Ailsa
Over/under a week before there's another assassination attempt?
Posted on 1/7/26 at 2:15 pm to Ailsa
Big daddy trump putting the clamp down on his subs. He is a true builder.
Posted on 1/7/26 at 2:15 pm to Ailsa
Can’t wait for Decatur to show up with a pro Raytheon rant.
Posted on 1/7/26 at 2:16 pm to kingbob
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Over/under a week before there's another assassination attempt?
Over/under on how many years it takes Trump supporters to decide if they are for or against a free market?
Posted on 1/7/26 at 2:18 pm to SpecialK_88
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Over/under on how many years it takes Trump supporters to decide if they are for or against a free market?
There's no such thing as a "free market" in defense contracts
If your entire economic sector is nothing but providing products and services for the government, the government has a clear reason to have a say in how you spend the money it gives you for said products and services. Plus, providing for national defense is one of the few things the federal government is SUPPOSED to be doing. Ensuring the taxpayer isn't getting completely ripped off via graft and corruption is an essential responsibility of the federal government, or at least SHOULD be.
This post was edited on 1/7/26 at 2:23 pm
Posted on 1/7/26 at 2:18 pm to FIREAWAY
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Big daddy trump putting the clamp down on his subs. He is a true builder.
Well, he does have plenty of personal experience with projects being well over budget and past deadline.
Posted on 1/7/26 at 2:23 pm to SpecialK_88
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Until they do so, no Executive should be allowed to make in excess of $5 Million Dollars which, as high as it sounds, is a mere fraction of what they are making now.
Obama would be happy with this. He used to suggest CEO pay be capped.
That said, when it comes to defense contractors I am cool with it. Taxpayer money is what keeps them afloat.
Posted on 1/7/26 at 2:24 pm to kingbob
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There's no such thing as a "free market" in defense contracts If your entire economic sector is nothing but providing products and services for the government, the government has a clear reason to have a say in how you spend the money it gives you for said products and services.
Ya, that’s not how it works. The government bids out contracts and the winning contractor is owed that money. The government can’t just come out and say we no longer agree with what we agreed to pay you because of how you use the money.
Posted on 1/7/26 at 2:26 pm to kingbob
Posted on 1/7/26 at 2:30 pm to SpecialK_88
It seems like they absolutely were not delivering what was agreed upon on the given timescale, then claiming a lack of capacity while investing funds given into bonuses rather than investing to get them said capacity. Trump's actions are absolutely warranted in that case. These are defense contracts with qualified bidding. There's not much competition that can possibly deliver what is being purchased at any sort of scale. These companies were using the fact that there are often monopolies or duopolies on given armaments to bilk the taxpayer while also not fully delivering what was purchased on time. The federal government was letting them do so because of kickbacks and graft which Trump appears to be attempting to stop.
Posted on 1/7/26 at 2:35 pm to AUstar
His lashing out is somewhat understandable. See: F35, Zumwalt, every other major procurement program in the last 20 years. Pentagon Wars. Military procurement is a mess and that's why you see companies like Saronic on the moonshot right now.
It's also the government's fault that we are here, and this problem could be rectified by the government without taking any direct action like this. Fix your procurement process and this gets better. The companies either figure out how to win and deliver or cease to exist. When your RFQ's and specs are written in such a manner that nobody except the Lockheed's and Raytheons of the world could afford to pull them off, this is what you get. Monopoly on major procurement, and shite that costs 9x what it was supposed to cost, has half the capability it was supposed to have, and delivers 5 years after it was supposed to.
It's also the government's fault that we are here, and this problem could be rectified by the government without taking any direct action like this. Fix your procurement process and this gets better. The companies either figure out how to win and deliver or cease to exist. When your RFQ's and specs are written in such a manner that nobody except the Lockheed's and Raytheons of the world could afford to pull them off, this is what you get. Monopoly on major procurement, and shite that costs 9x what it was supposed to cost, has half the capability it was supposed to have, and delivers 5 years after it was supposed to.
Posted on 1/7/26 at 2:37 pm to Ailsa
DID TRUMP WAKE UP AND FINALLY LISTEN TO MY RANTS???????? 
Posted on 1/7/26 at 2:38 pm to Ailsa
The People’s POTUS!
Posted on 1/7/26 at 2:46 pm to 50_Tiger
But Ellison making a mint is OK? So Kathy Warden at Northrop becomes a de facto government employee?
Why not have Trump just dictate everyone's salaries at Northrop, Lockheed, Raytheon and Boeing?
Wow we do love our socialist policies.... so long as a guy who claims to be a capitalist is suggesting it.
Why not have Trump just dictate everyone's salaries at Northrop, Lockheed, Raytheon and Boeing?
Wow we do love our socialist policies.... so long as a guy who claims to be a capitalist is suggesting it.
Posted on 1/7/26 at 2:47 pm to SpecialK_88
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The government can’t just come out and say we no longer agree with what we agreed to pay you because of how you use the money.
Point to where Trump said they weren't going to pay currently agreed to contracts?
Posted on 1/7/26 at 2:49 pm to KiwiHead
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Wow we do love our socialist policies.... so long as a guy who claims to be a capitalist is suggesting it.
These companies are not being forced to produce for the US Military. There have always been criteria to meet for government contracts. Adding CEO pay limits is no different than requiring companies to have women or DEI hires if they want government contracts. The biggest difference is this new set of requirements is GOOD for Americans and is fiscally responsible.
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Posted on 1/7/26 at 2:51 pm to SpecialK_88
I don’t like this at all from a free market standpoint. Trump should not be able to tell a private company what they can be compensated.
Get new defense contractors. frick the ones that have been screwing us for decades. Stick it up their arse and take all future contracts off the table unless they show the change he wants, otherwise make deals elsewhere.
Get new defense contractors. frick the ones that have been screwing us for decades. Stick it up their arse and take all future contracts off the table unless they show the change he wants, otherwise make deals elsewhere.
Posted on 1/7/26 at 2:53 pm to Ailsa
Great stuff
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