Transcript of Americans Demand Resignations as Trump Prepares Major War!

They are calling it the most incompetent administration. Right now, Americans across the country continue to demand answers aren't getting any, and the Trump administration is putting college football ahead of funerals, weddings, and more—all while threatening to conduct another military invasion, this time of Cuba. Privately, the Trump administration is preparing for a possible military intervention in Cuba, all while it cannot even keep planes in the sky properly.

I'll first start off by extending my gratitude for what happened yesterday and the amazing performance of our air traffic controllers.

Wait a second here, what's going on with our audio?

Apologize for that.

Sure.

Okay, there we go. You can't even make this up. It's like a scene out of Veep. Like, truly, they're holding a press conference about fixing communications and radar and all this stuff, and their own AV system doesn't even work. But it gets marketably worse. Take a listen.

Yeah. So, yeah, I want to thank our air traffic controllers, our pilots who exhibited amazing professionalism yesterday, but also our flight attendants, our ground crews.

By the way, this is not me lowering his voice. This is their AV not working in real time.

No, you don't. This is not operational. Okay.

It's not operational. It doesn't work.

This is our kind of day.

Like, the silence is deafening. By the way, this is the press conference. It gets worse.

Nevertheless, this upgrade was made at 3 o'clock on a Friday afternoon. Why? Why not, say, at midnight on a Saturday when there are fewer planes lined up to take off?

Yeah, that's true.

If I could ask, are there any changes in these planned upgrades over the course of the next couple of weeks, particularly ahead of Thanksgiving?

So, I first want to—I'll answer that's a great question, thank you for asking it. Safety is paramount. And if we don't make these upgrades, we have a less safe system. We can't continue on technology of the '80s. I mean, we spend over $200 million a year in obsolescence fees. We have to pay to use these old copper wires. We have to get off of them. They're less reliable. So we have to make the transition.

The question that they're being asked in this moment is essentially, why do this during the height of travel season? It's a Friday afternoon. It's about a week and a half before Thanksgiving, the busiest time of year. Why do it now? And also, why are you asking for money when you have a Republican House and a Republican Senate, a full Republican Congress to this day, who can give you the money?

But because of the nature of what this switchover was, it was a remote location. We'll do those during the day. Now, if we're going to be at Newark, if we're going to be, you know, in one of our big facilities, those switchovers happen at night and they can have a bigger impact. But these smaller locations don't have that kind of impact, or they shouldn't have that kind of impact, which is what we saw yesterday. So there'll be a reevaluation of when we do this work.

We want to move teams. If I—I was saying this earlier to someone. If I heard them say that college football is important once again, like, for another time, I would scream. Because people are missing weddings. People are missing funerals. People are missing some of the most important parts of their lives. My daughter, I'm missing her. She's seven months old and across the country, and I can't see her. But college football is a priority.

Teams around the country, so we can have playoffs happen. As Brian mentioned, though, the key part of this is moving the general public and keeping them safe.

Just to ask you one more thing about the routers you have, and just a quick question on funding. You talk about $12.5 billion the Congress has already appropriated. How much of that has already been spent? And Secretary, you last week requested $30 billion. It was quite a detailed request. How do you get $30 billion of detail for last night, $50 billion? What more do you need? And are you prepared to itemize that for us today?

Yeah. So, again, the President and I have been in constant communication about this yesterday and today. So I did make a request for $30 billion. I've talked about $30 billion. And what I'm trying to do is get a number that I think the Congress will give me, that gets a massive portion of.

But how come they haven't given it to you? How come they haven't given it to you? You have a Republican House, Republican Senate, Republican White House. If you needed this money, what's taking so long? It's been two years.

Of the needs of the airspace completed. But if I want to do a full build, if I want to look at runways, I want to look at towers, many of our towers are 50, 75 years old. We have some of our airports. We have aging infrastructure throughout the airspace, not just on the new telecom that we need, our new architecture, not just the new software—by the way, the software that manages the airspace—basically built in the 1990s.

By the way, they had enough money to fund ICE and CBP and border agents to the tune of billions of dollars. They had enough money in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to do all of this, right? Mike Johnson this morning tried to put the blame on Democrats, saying Democrats didn't work with Republicans to pass legislation on FAA funding. That's not true. But even if it were true, let's assume for the sake of argument it's true Democrats didn't want to do it. Republicans could have done it.