Trump speaks out about nationwide flight shutdown after CNN's Dana Bash loses her cool demanding why president was 'missing'

President Donald Trump finally gave a public comment on the nationwide flight shutdown after CNN's Dana Bash lost her cool while asking Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy why he was 'missing' during the chaos.Following Friday's panic, the president made a public statement on Sunday slamming the US Air Traffic Control system and blaming former president Joe Biden and the current outdated system for the outage.'If Congress approves the desperately needed money for Air Traffic Control, we can get it built quickly and efficiently,' he wrote on Sunday morning. 'It will be the BEST SYSTEM anywhere in the world. Much of our current air control system is 50 years old - RIDICULOUS! 'We have already started the work, but it should be done all at once, not in drips and drabs. Congress must approve. The Biden Administration set it back years!'The Federal Aviation Administration grounded all flights in the US at around 4pm on Friday due to a communications failure at air traffic control centers. A nationwide grounding hasn't occurred in the country since the September 11, 2001, attacks in NYC. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blamed Congress for failing to fund a new system that could prevent such disruptions, calling for around $50 billion in funding. 'What we have is an incredibly old air traffic control system,' he said earlier on Friday. 'Give us the money to fix it.' Following Friday's panic, the president finally made a public statement on Sunday slamming the US Air Traffic Control system and blaming former president Joe Biden and the current outdated system for the outage The Federal Aviation Administration grounded all flights in the US at around 4pm on Friday due to a communications failure at air traffic control centers. A nationwide grounding hasn't occurred in the country since the September 11, 2001, attacks in NYCTrump's message came around a day and a half since the chaotic scenes saw every US flight grounded and thousands of flights subsequently delayed. Before he made a public comment, however, the president came under fire by CNN's Bash while she interrogated Duffy on why Trump was 'missing' amid the panic.'No information for a bit about what was happening. People were scared, they didn't know if it was a cyber attack or rogue AI or what,' Bash said. 'The president just made his first real public comment about this on social media this morning. Didn't Americans deserve to hear from him while this was going on?'Duffy responded by explaining that he and Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin had been flying when the disaster struck, but they landed and 'went right to the White House.''I was in the Oval Office with Markwayne, we were talking to the president. The president told Stephen Miller, this is a whole of government approach. So, we were on a call with DNI, NSA, CISA, FBI,' Duffy continues before Bash chimes in.'Why didn't we hear from the president publicly....he was posting on social media,' she begins before becoming more frustrated. 'But that's what's so stunning about it! Because he was posting on social media about the [Motion Picture, Television, and Entertainment Revitalization Act], many posts about revitalizing a golf course and that's why its so noteworthy that we didn't hear from him for almost a day and a half.' The president came under fire by CNN's Dana Bash while she interrogated Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on why Trump was 'missing' amid the panicDuffy insisted that he was 'in constant contact' with the president, who he claimed was 'fully engaged' and noted that Trump informed him, 'as we move forward,' he was willing to offer the transportation secretary 'whatever resource, in any other department that you need'Duffy, however, insisted that he was 'in constant contact' with the president, who he claimed was 'fully engaged.''Because this is important to him and it's important to America. So Markwayne and I were fully engaged with the president, we were in the Oval [Office]. I talked to him before we did the press conference I talked to him after the press conference,' he continued.'So, his engagement has been remarkable and his insight into how we have to come together as Americans - [Republicans] and [Democrats]- to get this done, is I think a sign of great leadership. So no, the president is fully supportive, fully engaged and was fully tracking what's happening.'Duffy noted that Trump informed him that, 'as we move forward,' the president was willing to offer the transportation secretary 'whatever resource, in any other department that you need.''"You can pull them. I want everybody to work on this," the safety of the traveling public is number one for him like it is for me,' he said. Duffy was embarking on what is known in media strategy as a 'Full Ginsburg,' appearing on all five major Sunday public affairs TV programs in one morning.The tactic is usually deployed in an attempt to maximize exposure and deliver the same messaging to audiences across media ecosystems. On Sunday, Duffy announced that Congress handed over $12.5 billion in funding which he intends to put towards new radios, new radars, electronic flight strips and modern telecommunication linesAt around 8.15pm ET on Friday evening, Duffy announced that US airspace had reopened but warned of severe delays. Earlier in the day, Duffy said the trouble began just before 4pm as radar and communications systems experienced instability. 'Our switches, our routers actually got overloaded with data and they started to give us inconsistencies in the data from those routers and because of that we shut the system ​down,' he said. By 11.30pm, around 10,000 flights had been cancelled, and experts warned that flights may be affected for days following the incident. Tens of thousands of passengers were stranded at airports around the country, according to the transportation secretary.On Sunday, Duffy announced that Congress handed over $12.5 billion in funding which he intends to put towards new radios, new radars, electronic flight strips and modern telecommunication lines. 'Every cent is accounted for, and every piece of equipment will be in placed by the end of 2028,' he wrote on X. 'HERE’S THE CATCH: Congress locked that money into physical hardware, leaving us without the funds to build the core software that makes the system run. Congress will be a vital partner in funding the rest of this build so we can modernize our airspace and make sure Friday never happens again.'The Daily Mail reached out to the White House for comment.