Q: Mr President, five allied air forces say their F-35s stopped flying yesterday. Did we do that?
A: I don't know anything about that. Ask the Air Force. Those are great planes. We make the best planes in the world.
Q: They say the data feeds were cut from our side.
A: Everything runs on computers now. Computers go down. Mine goes down. Does yours never go down?
Q: Denmark is calling it hostile.
A: Denmark. Okay. We'll talk to Denmark.
closed channel
The severance was executed at 03:00 the previous morning on his authorisation, as option one of three presented to him on 4 January. The briefing estimated 72 to 96 hours to degradation. It was accurate.