Donald Trump ranted about wiring allegedly installed by former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in an attempt to make Buttigieg sound dumb, but instead, everyone pointed out how ignorant Trumps accusations were. Theres 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. Related Lauren Boebert brags about giving birth in a truck in repulsive anti-gay rant about Pete Buttigieg They used copper wire going into glass wire. Any union electrician here or any non-union electrician would say you cant hook copper into glass. It doesnt work. They spent billions of dollars, they turned on the system, and it was stone cold blank.It seems that Trump was referring to how some buildings use both copper and fiber optic wiring to handle internet connections, a widespread practice that has been made trivial by converters. Insights for the LGBTQ+ community Subscribe to our briefing for insights into how politics impacts the LGBTQ+ community and more. Subscribe to our Newsletter today 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 wiringoften installed in the 1970s and 1980swith fiber optic 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. The issue is that the copper wiring is aging poorly and supports limited bandwidth.On X, people mocked Trump for his claim that copper and fiber optic lines cant interface. the key fact about Donald Trump is that in addition to being infinitely self-absorbed and having no morals whatsoever, he is an almost impossibly stupid man https://t.co/cqv1Sk1szk Will Stancil (@whstancil) October 21, 2025Union av tech here,You can absolutely convert a fiber optic (glass) wire and signal into a copper one using one of these handy converter boxes. https://t.co/h5OPug3t5g pic.twitter.com/GroXLciMcG Matt Kimball (@Matt_J_Kimball) October 21, 2025This is patently absurd. Every person with fiber optic internet switches from "glass" fibers to copper wiring https://t.co/I8oZJIVYyo MaxJones (@MaxPi314) October 22, 2025I almost did a spit take at how dumb this is. But it's also projection I'm sure for the lousy job they're gonna do on this ballroom https://t.co/wsK9xlmdYP Nick Hauselman (@CanYouHearMeSMH) October 21, 2025 He suggested a unique treatment for Covid all those years ago, too! https://t.co/LpGXE2u673 Grace and Favour (@GracenFavour) October 22, 2025Famously tech-illiterate 79 year old man attempts to explain fiberoptics to a patio full of mostly elderly Senators. And they'll all treat every word as genius. https://t.co/h6hx7eZ68y Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd on blu sky) (@rothschildmd) October 21, 2025Completely moronic statement.And every electrician would say the same thing. Coming from an electrician btw. https://t.co/fjw0v5OsE3 Corey Day (@CoreyDayHCA) October 21, 2025Imagine sitting around, not getting paid, working with people lives at stake. And this guy is up there telling the American people some BS about why your systems are terrible. Systems you have been complaining about for decades, long before Pete was even voting age. https://t.co/pXsI9Hdqjz Mike Pelletier (@mikepell33) October 22, 2025Our president is a complete fucking moron. https://t.co/fKCJ5oF1Ui Steven DeKnight (@stevendeknight) October 22, 2025As an electrical engineer, I am appalled at this nonsense, but not as appalled at knowing half of American voters thought Trump was some sort of genius. HiHoSteverino (@SteveJaf) October 21, 2025We literally do this EVERY DAY! It's called a Media Converter. Every Office has network cabling, these cables are made of COPPER. Many offices use FIBER Internet. These cables are made of GLASS. We connect the Fiber to a Media Converter / and extend to a network via COPPER. pic.twitter.com/KpvUeJ0Fug Eric Swain (@eswain) October 21, 2025Never a good move to summon Buttigieg to explain things to MAGA and refute Trump. I'm looking forward to his smackdown of Trump Fifteen Minutes Late (@15minslate) October 21, 2025Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.