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President Donald Trump suggested Friday that aging equipment, or “old broken stuff,” may be behind a massive air traffic control outage that grounded flights across the U.S., as Democrats demand answers over the airport chaos.
Trump has yet to post about the meltdown on Truth Social or make public remarks. Amid Friday’s nationwide ground stop, he instead posted about reviving the entertainment industry.
Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy said he spoke with Trump as the disruption unfolded, and shared the president’s remarks during a live appearance on “The Ingraham Angle” from the White House.
“I did just talk to President Trump on the phone, and this is going to be the first information that we have directly from the president that you’re about to hear,” Doocy said.
“He says it does not seem like this is a cyberattack or AI or anything like that. I asked him a couple different ways, and he said it doesn’t seem like that, and that that is the first thing that they always look for,” he continued.
“He said there’s nobody taking credit, which would be common if somebody did execute a huge cyber attack like this on critical infrastructure, but that he…
