Oh? you wanted to be embarrassed? Fine.
Trump was not aware. The public was not aware. There was no option to shoot them down.
They may have been classified as UFOs, or unidentified anomalous phenomenon, at the time, reports say.
www.bbc.com
Those balloons also went nowhere near the secret facilities like the Balloon during Biden's term when he could have shot it down at any time with a F15 that can go nearly 100,000 feet. To wait for it to pass multiple military and secret facilities loaded with electronics and then give it a salt bath destroying any information recovery with an F22 was the height of Chinese payoff. Fuck Biden and the Democrats that suck Chinese dick.