Trump attends Boeing’s rollout of new 787 Dreamliner today

President Donald Trump is scheduled to drop in at Boeing’s North Charleston complex in South Carolina Friday, as the plane maker rolls out the first jet of its largest 787 model.

Unlike the smaller -8 and -9 models, which are assembled in both Charleston and Everett, the 787-10 will be built only in South Carolina.

Although Trump began his relationship with Boeing before his inauguration by tweeting a complaint about the price of Air Force One, he has since warmed to the company. Indeed, on Thursday news emerged that he had let Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg listen in unannounced while he called the Pentagon general in charge of the F-35 fighter program – which Trump had suggested should be replaced with a Boeing fighter jet.

Friday morning, Trump made clear his newfound enthusiasm for Boeing:

Going to Charleston, South Carolina, in order to spend time with Boeing and talk jobs! Look forward to it.

– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 17, 2017

A festering issue for Boeing is the lack of a quorum of board members for the Export-Import Bank, limiting the size of loan guarantees it can issue and effectively cutting the plane maker off from a crucial source of financing for foreign jet sales.

Some conservatives have derided the bank as “The Bank of Boeing” because it is by far the largest user of those loan guarantees, but Muilenburg reportedly has been lobbying Trump to consider the job-creating effect of aircraft sales and restore the bank’s financing capability.

Trump also holds the key to another key question for Boeing: Can it go ahead with its $8 billion sale jets to Iran?