Trump Touts Job Creation at Roll-Out of New Boeing Dreamliner
President Donald Trump landed in Charleston, South Carolina, Friday to tour a Boeing aircraft facility and help unveil the company's new 787 jet.
"That is one beautiful airplane," said the president. "Congratulations to the men and women here who build it."
The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner is 350-passenger jet that's 18 feet longer than the 787. The president has been critical of Boeing in the past, particularly the cost of the Air Force One program. The main purpose of this trip was to talk about job creation.
"We want products made in America, made with American hands," Trump declared. He added that "our goal as a nation is to rely less on imports and more on products made here in the USA."
The Boeing visit comes one day after his 77-minute press conference where he talked about Russia, investigating leaked information and chastised the "fake media."
This weekend, the president heads to a rally in Melbourne, Florida. Next week, he is set to unveil a new immigration order. That order is supposed to be tailored to be in compliance with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal. The president says he is also taking a special look at DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival) children to make sure they are dealt with carefully.
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Amber Strong joined the CBN News team in Washington, D.C., in 2014 as a producer and field producer, later transitioning into roles as a correspondent, producer, and backup anchor.
In 2019, she became a political reporter for the cable channel Newsy, and in 2021, she began work as a national correspondent and documentary host for Scripps News in Washington. Her work as a documentary correspondent—particularly her coverage of environmental issues, as well as social and healthcare inequities—has earned several national news nominations, including recognition from the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and a National Emmy.
She returned to CBN News in 2025 and now proudly serves as the Senior Managing News Producer for the Washington News Bureau, where she also occasionally contributes on-air reporting.
While she loves her current home base in Washington, D.C., Amber is a Hoosier at heart. A proud graduate of Harding University’s School of Journalism, she lives and breathes politics but has made it her mission to tell the stories of the unseen, give a voice to the unheard, and highlight the ways Christ is at work in the world around us.
