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After a weekend of nationwide protests, Trump on Monday deflected blame for the widespread confusion and anger sparked by his executive order barring US entry for refugees and citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries.

President Trump on Monday falsely said Delta Air Lines and protesters were to blame for the the mass outrage and confusion at airports nationwide this weekend, which was actually sparked by his executive order temporarily banning citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries to the US and suspending the refugee program for 120 days.

Andrew Kelly / Reuters

Let’s unpack this. There was a Delta system outage that caused delays and led to 280 total cancelations — on Sunday evening into Monday, the airline said.

In a statement, Delta said that its IT systems, which went down at around 6:30 p.m. Sunday, were restored a few hours later and all systems were back to normal shortly after midnight on Monday.

There were residual delays on Monday as well.

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