Did you notice that the recent blackouts included cellular?
Unfortunately, the EAS may NOT be an avenue for the President to get a message out to the people.
Most people think that, if the President needed to speak to the people, he could just pick up a phone and be on the air within a couple minutes. That isn’t how it works. (I spent 9 years in broadcasting, and I studied the EAS/EBS systems.)
The FEMA National Radio System (FNARS) “Provides Primary Entry Point service to the Emergency Alert System”, and acts as an emergency presidential link into the EAS. The FNARS net control station is located at the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center. In order for the President to get something out, he’d have to go through the FNARS.
If there’s a message that needs to be sent (i.e; alert of inbound nukes), they can verify with the military people at Mount Weather and pass it along. But, IF the person (or persons) at the controls of the FNARS do not believe the message to be valid or necessary, they can stop it from being sent to the 77 PEP (Primary Entry Point) stations around the country, and the message wouldn’t even get out. The message may depend on if Patriots or people loyal to the chain of command were at the controls. If a Dem or Biden stooge were in the loop....
I’d like to think that the EAS was a possibility for getting a message out to Patriots, letting them know that it was time to take the country back, but given the current situation and possibility of traitors, I’m not 100% sure it’d work.