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Donald Trump: “They hooked copper into fiber into steel into all. They had…”

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Donald Trump Discusses Texas Flood Response, Tariffs, and Military Operations

Published | Video Starts at 1:17:36

Oh, our system is so bad. And I knew that we were all set to start and Buddha edge came in. And what they did was so crazy because They hooked copper into fiber into steel into all. They had all different systems. They had hundreds and hundreds of contractors, different contractors for different airports. They spent billions of dollars and they made. Made the system worse because you can't hook copper into fiber. It doesn't work that way. You just can't do it. It's not doable. But they tried to do it, didn't work out too well. And in the end it was just a complete disaster. (1:17:36–1:17:55)

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Asserts that the previous administration's air traffic control system upgrade was poorly executed and costly.

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