This Proves Trump Goons’ Catastrophic Incompetence: Author

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Author Michael Wolff said Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin did little to address Americans’ concerns about the first nationwide…

The incompetence of top Trump officials was on full display at a press conference held in the chaotic aftermath of the nationwide air travel meltdown, the president’s longtime biographer said.

Author Michael Wolff said Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin did little to address Americans’ concerns about the first nationwide ground stop since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

Air travel ground to a halt for four hours on Friday after the Federal Aviation Administration abruptly announced that it had issued a nationwide ground stop at all airports due to “extraordinary circumstances” and “reasons of safety.”

After the ground stop was lifted, Duffy and Mullin held a press conference to answer questions—but had little information to share. They blamed the crisis on old air traffic control technology and overloaded routers, while making clear that the ground stop was not linked to any threat to the U.S. or to this week’s widespread Microsoft outage.

“This is what the leadership team of Donald Trump looks like,” Inside Trump’s Head co-host Joanna Coles said Saturday. “There’s no planes, and you can’t use your computer.”

“These two guys, this is who we’re counting on,” Wolff said. “They seem to be essentially dismissing this problem or dismissing the crisis: ‘This is structural,’ ‘We need more money to fix this,’ blah. Instead of beginning with, ‘Not since 9/11 has there been a shutdown of American airspace as massive of as this. But pay no attention. It’s just a little circuit overload.’”

The Trump biographer speculated that the situation behind the scenes could be one of two scenarios.

“Either they don’t know what it is because they are that uninformed, that dopey, the American the structure of air travel has been so disrupted and underfunded and so many people have been fired and jobs not replaced that they are really kind of at a loss here,” he said.

“Or, they do have a sense of what happened and they don’t really want to ‘fess up to…

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