Trump blames Biden for US flight disruptions

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a "Steel Across America" event ahead of the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks on the Ellipse near the White House on September 08, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Finn Gomez / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

US President Donald Trump blamed on Sunday the administration of his predecessor Joe Biden for the nationwide ground stop that disrupted domestic and international travel.

In his first comments on the issue since US authorities grounded all planes for several hours on Friday due to a technical upgrade gone wrong, Trump called the Biden administration’s aviation management a “disaster.”

“Everything they touched turned bad,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Big money spent unwisely, making an old and broken system worse than when they began.”

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