The plane that Donald Trump used during the campaign, nicknamed Trump Force One, is a Boeing 757-200 jet. (Trump Organization via YouTube)

The Boeing Co. donated its traditional $1 million to support President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration celebration, days before Trump dinged the jetmaker over the projected multibillion-dollar cost of the future Air Force One planes.

“We are pleased to continue our tradition of supporting presidential inaugurations,” Boeing spokesman Gordon Johndroe told GeekWire in an emailed statement.

That traditional level is $1 million, the same amount that Boeing contributed for President Barack Obama’s inaugural ceremonies in 2013.

The Trump inaugural committee sent out its package for underwriting next month’s festivities a little more than a week ago, and Boeing quickly got on board.

The donation was firmed up by Monday – a day before Trump tweeted his displeasure about the Air Force One cost estimates, complained that Boeing “is doing a little bit of a number,” and called for a cancellation of the order.

Since then, Boeing executives and Trump have been smoothing over the dispute.

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg contacted the president-elect later on Tuesday. The next day, Trump told NBC’s “Today” show that he “spoke to a very good man yesterday, the head of Boeing, terrific guy, and we’re going to work it out.”

Trump signaled that he expected the $4 billion price tag he quoted in his tweet to be reduced. (That number is toward the top end of previously discussed cost estimates.)

“I’m going to negotiate prices,” Trump said. “Planes are too expensive, and we’re going to get the prices down, and if we don’t get the prices down, we’re not going to order them. We’re going to stay with what we have.”

It probably helped as well that Trump got some extra perspective on Thursday from Alan Mulally, the former head of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Mulally is reportedly among the prospects being considered for secretary of state.

Boeing’s million-dollar contribution will be folded into what’s likely to amount to as much as $75 million in private underwriting. That will be in addition to the public outlay for the inauguration.

Based on the price schedule laid out in the fundraising brochure, a million dollars will bring the contributor a host of perks, including four tickets to an exclusive “leadership luncheon” with Cabinet picks and congressional leaders, four tickets to a dinner with Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, and eight tickets to a “ladies luncheon” featuring First Lady Melania Trump.

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