US President Trump blamed AT&T for technical issues during a conference call with US religious leaders on Monday, but the wireless operator said its analysis showed that the outage was not caused by its network. Trump urged the wireless operator's boss to deal with the situation, and also said his administration might use the services of another operator in other conference calls. On Monday afternoon local time, Trump wrote on social media: “I'm having an important conference call with faith leaders from all over the country, and AT&T is completely unable to get their devices to work.” This is the second time this has happened. It would be great if the owner of AT&T, whoever he was, could get involved. There are tens of thousands of people online!” Trump did not elaborate on the exact details of the issue. AT&T said on X that its initial analysis “showed that the outage was caused by a problem with the teleconferencing platform, not our network.” The company also said it is working to better understand the issue to help avoid such outages in the future. After Trump's post, AT&T's stock price closed down for a short time, then rebounded.

US President Trump blamed AT&T for technical issues during a conference call with US religious leaders on Monday, but the wireless operator said its analysis showed that the outage was not caused by its network. Trump urged the wireless operator's boss to deal with the situation, and also said his administration might use the services of another operator in other conference calls. On Monday afternoon local time, Trump wrote on social media: “I'm having an important conference call with faith leaders from all over the country, and AT&T is completely unable to get their devices to work.” This is the second time this has happened. It would be great if the owner of AT&T, whoever he was, could get involved. There are tens of thousands of people online!” Trump did not elaborate on the exact details of the issue. AT&T said on X that its initial analysis “showed that the outage was caused by a problem with the teleconferencing platform, not our network.” The company also said it is working to better understand the issue to help avoid such outages in the future. After Trump's post, AT&T shares closed down for a short time and then picked up.