Trump Kept Out of Sight as F.A.A. Issued Flight Ground Stop
The New York Times reports that President Trump stayed out of sight during the nearly five-hour nationwide ground stop that disrupted some 10,000 flights, leaving homeland security secretary Markwayne Mullin and transportation secretary Sean Duffy to address the public — at times contradicting each other over whether old equipment or new technology caused the meltdown. Trump stayed silent on the crisis until Saturday, when he posted a quote from Senator John Kennedy on F.A.A. funding, and by then had attacked Gov. Gavin Newsom and posted about movie industry tax incentives instead.
