AT&T breaks silence with three-word comment after Trump hits out at telecomms giant
telecommunications service provider AT&T
has officially responded to
Donald Trump
, who lambasted the company for preventing him from joining the Faith Leaders Conference call.
The company posted a status on their X account saying they had to "assess the situation" after White House Press Secretary
Karoline Leavitt
posted a photo from Trump's Truth Social platform on her social media profile on X.
"We've reached out to the White House and are working to quickly understand and assess the situation," the company said in response to Leavitt's tweet. The post comes minutes after Trump attacked AT&T over the alleged bad service.
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The company posted a status on X saying they had to "assess the situation" after White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt posted a photo from Trump's Truth Social platform.
(Image: AP)
"I apologize for the long wait on the Faith Leaders Conference Call. AT&T ought to get its act together," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "We may have to reschedule the call, but we'll use another carrier the next time."
"AT&T obviously doesn't know what they're doing," he concluded. Trump also slammed the head of the telecoms company prior to complaining about not having the equipment work properly.
According to the company, they were trying to "assess the situation."
(Image: Getty Images)
"I'm doing a major Conference Call with Faith Leaders from all over the Country, and AT&T is totally unable to make their equipment work properly," the president said. "This is the second time it's happened."
"If the Boss of AT&T, whoever that may be, could get involved — It would be good," he added. "There are tens of thousands of people on the line!"
Trump also slammed the head of the telecoms company prior to complaining about not having the equipment work properly.
(Image: AFP via Getty Images)
Leavitt's passive-aggressive tweet comes after she shared a bizarre memo Trump sent to Fed Chair Jerome Powell during her weekly press briefing. "Jerome, you are, as usual, 'too late'; you have cost the USA a fortune and continue to so," Trump wrote in his sweeping scrawl. "You should lower the rate by a lot!"
"Hundreds of Billions of dollars are being lost," he finished. "No inflation."
The statement from Trump was part of a post on Truth Social. "Jerome 'Too Late' Powell, and his entire Board, should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this to happen to the United States," he wrote.
"They have one of the easiest, yet most prestigious, jobs in America, and they have FAILED — And continue to do so," he added. "If they were doing their job properly, our Country would be saving Trillions of Dollars in Interest Cost."
"The Board just sits there and watches, so they are equally to blame," he finished. "We should be paying 1% Interest, or better!"
This is the latest of Trump bashing Powell. Previously, Trump urged Powell to lower the interest rate. "ADP NUMBER OUT!!! 'Too Late'
Powell must now LOWER THE RATE
," he wrote.
"
He is unbelievable
," Trump added. The president had also called Powell "stupid." He said, "We have a stupid person, frankly, at the FED. He probably won't cut today. Europe had ten cuts and we had none."
"I guess he's a political guy, i don't know, he's a political guy who's not a smart person," Trump added. " But discussing the country of fortune. But what I'm gonna do is, you know, he gets out in nine months, he has to."
It comes after First Lady Melania Trump looked like she'd made an embarrassing blunder.
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