""There's Pete Buttigieg, he spent billions of dollars on fixing the air traffic control," Trump said during comments to Republican senators at the newly paved-over White House Rose Garden yesterday. "They used copper wire going into glass wire. Any union electrician here or any non-union electrician would say you can't hook copper into glass. It doesn't work. They spent billions of dollars, they turned on the system, and it was stone cold blank.""
"Copper wiring has caused problems for air traffic controllers recently. A piece of burnt-out copper wire caused a blackout at the Newark Airport earlier this year, for example, which is why plans to modernize the equipment that controllers use involve replacing that wiring-often installed in the 1970s and 1980s-with fiberglass lines. However, the copper wiring was installed well before Buttigieg was at the Department of Transportation, and the issue is not that it has to interface with fiber optic lines."
Donald Trump asserted that Pete Buttigieg spent billions on air traffic control upgrades and that copper wiring was hooked to 'glass' wire, which he said would not work. Some buildings use both copper and fiberglass (fiber) wiring for network connections, and converters routinely enable interoperability. Aging copper installed in the 1970s–1980s supports limited bandwidth and has caused failures, including a burnt copper wire that helped trigger a Newark Airport blackout. The copper wiring predated Buttigieg's tenure, and modernization plans call for replacing old copper with fiber lines. Engineers and electricians criticized the technical claim as incorrect.
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