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Trump Stopped Air Traffic Rather Than Tune Down His Birthday UFC Bash
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Trump Stopped Air Traffic Rather Than Tune Down His Birthday UFC Bash

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President Donald Trump’s giant birthday party at the White House appears to have grounded flights at a local airport in Washington, D.C.All flights at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) were “paused” Sunday evening due to the president’s birthday celebration, according to Clara-Sophia Daly, an immigration reporter for Mission Local in San Francisco. “The air traffic controllers were not warned, nor were the airport staff or travelers,” Daly wrote on X Sunday night, after her own flight was severely delayed. The pilot said the delay was “one of the most frustrating things I’ve experienced in 20 years of aviation,” according to Daly. “The pilot says the reason given for the shutdown is that there is going to be some kind of military jet air show above the White House,” she wrote in another post. In the skies above Trump’s UFC fight, the U.S. military mounted an extravagant air show for the president, including a formation of the Navy’s Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbirds, as well as an appearance from a B1-B Lancer, a heavy long-range bomber. Aaron Parnas had a different theory, however. MeidasTouch previously reported that a commercial airline pilot filed aviation safety reports after being exposed to the powerful lighting used during the construction of the UFC octagon on the White House grounds upon their descent into DCA.“This confirms my reporting with @MeidasTouch—pilots were being blinded by the UFC octagon, and now, based on this tweet, all flights have been paused because of it,” Parnas wrote on X in response to Daly’s thread.These reports raise serious concerns about the coordination between the White House and aviation authorities, and unscored just how little Trump cares about the American people as he threw himself a $60 million party at the taxpayer’s expense.

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