Trump struck a deal with Boeing for not one, but two new Air Force Ones

What the White House is Talking About:
President Trump today meets with Republicans on trade and renewable fuel, both are closed to the press. At 4 p.m. we're scheduled to see the President when he makes an announcement regarding additional leadership in the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. 

What the White House Press Corps is Talking About:
Drudge's big red siren post about Trump being set to announce that he's running for re-election in 2020 -- but he already did that on the day he was inaugurated, so. 
Sarah Sanders is scheduled to do the briefing at 2 p.m.

The 2020 Trump "News":
The Drudge announcement really only had one interesting news nugget, which CNN's Dana Bash quickly confirmed, that Brad Parscale will be the campaign manager. Parscale was Trump's 2016 campaign digital media director.

If It's the Morning, It's Executive Time: 
The President was clearly watching the television this morning, specifically Fox News. He tweeted a few choice thoughts. 

The Plane! The Plane!: 
Trump has struck a deal with Boeing for two new Air Force One planes for $3.9 billion. The one caveat is that he wants them ready by 2021, three years ahead of schedule, so that he can fly in them if he wins re-election. The current AF1s have been in service since George H.W. Bush was president. Here's a rendering from Boeing of what the new ones will look like -- which is essentially the exact same?

No Drama for Obama:  In a private speech to a sports policy industry crowd last week in Boston, Barack Obama touted his administration's lack of drama: "We didn't have a scandal that embarrassed us... Generally speaking, you didn't hear about a lot of drama inside our White House." Yeah, it was pretty boring tbh. Our Daily Melania: Melania Trump has severed ties with the senior adviser who pocketed $1.62 million from helping Trump inauguration festivities, and whose firm, in total, was paid $26 million. Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former events planner who worked for several years with Vogue magazine, was a good friend of Melania's in New York City, and when Trump won the election, Wolkoff was tapped as a FLOTUS senior adviser. However, Wolkoff's work on the inauguration was not overseen by the first lady, and she had nothing to do with how funds were distributed, according to her spokeswoman. Dress Like the First Lady: Today's DLTFL file is interesting. Yesterday, for her first public remarks in months, Melania Trump wore a pale pink dress by designer Gabriela Hearst. Trump has worn Hearst several times before, but I think it's interesting because as Hearst's two-year-old label has gained popularity, the designer has become more and more outspoken about her feminist ideals, and her disapproval of Donald Trump. Her Twitter feed is peppered with political posts and support for Democratic leaders. When asked in an interview with the Wall Street Journal last year if she would ever dress Melania Trump, Hearst said: "If they want to wear the clothes, they can buy the clothes." Anyway, I'm not saying Melania was necessarily making some sort of statement by wearing Hearst -- she probably just liked the dress, as simple as that -- but I do think it's worth pointing out. The pastel pink, cap-sleeve dress is available here for $1,995.

Merp:  Vanity Fair's Jennifer Lawrence cover for its March issue looks a lot like last December's Hollywood Reporter Jennifer Lawrence cover, at least that's the buzz going around media world -- and it's not great for VF, since its February cover had that goof with Oprah's three hands and Reese Witherspoon's three legs. Also, the story is ok, but can we be done with Jennifer Lawrence?