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| Source:C-SPAN showing President Donald J. Trump's (MAGA, Florida) DCA press conference. And no, this is not an SNL parody. That's the real Donald J. Trump. |
From C-SPAN
"President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said investigators were looking at potential mistakes made by pilots of a military helicopter on a training mission when it crashed into an American Airlines jet over the Potomac River near Washington, DC." You had a confluence of bad decisions that were made," Trump said during his news conference. He also said diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) by the Biden administration had run the department "right into the ground." Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy also briefly spoke to reporters.Show."
From C-SPAN
From TIME Magazine:
"The collision quickly raised concerns about the state of air traffic control and oversight and sparked questions about recent leadership changes within the federal agencies charged with regulating air travel.
Just days before the crash, President Donald Trump enacted a sweeping shake-up of the federal agencies responsible for aviation oversight, removing the administrator of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), David Pekoske, and eliminating all the members of a key aviation security advisory group. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which regulates airlines and aircraft manufacturers and manages the nation’s airspace, was also without permanent leadership at the time of the crash, as its top official, Michael Whitaker, stepped down ahead of the new administration’s transition after clashing with Trump ally Elon Musk. Whitaker became the agency’s administrator in October 2023."
From TIME Magazine
From NBC News:
"In his first news conference since the aircraft collision over the Potomac River, President Donald Trump on Thursday implied that diversity, equity and inclusion programs could be the cause, although an investigation has only just begun into the fatal disaster.
“We have to have our smartest people” as air traffic controllers, Trump said Thursday morning. “It doesn’t matter what they look like, how they speak, who they are. ... They have to be talented, naturally talented. Geniuses. Can’t have regular people doing their job. We can’t have regular people doing this job. They won’t be able to do it, but we’ll restore faith in American air travel.”
Trump spent a considerable amount of time discussing the Federal Aviation Administration's DEI initiatives, particularly under Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama. He cited the FAA's acknowledgment of the underemployment of employees with disabilities.
A week before he took office, Trump said the FAA website said "people with severe disabilities are the most underrepresented segment of the workforce, that they want them" to be "air traffic controllers. I don’t think so."
Trump also railed against former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who served under Biden, calling him a “disaster.” But under questioning from reporters, Trump stopped short of outright blaming the programs for the midair...
From NBC News
Just to start this off with a couple points about President Trump and then I'll get into what I really want to say after that.
I would be the last person that you would think is some metrosexual hipster who's always thinking about my personal experience and always making sure I look as cool as possible and everything about my personal appearance is perfect. But as soon as the President starts his press conference, you can see that something is obviously not right with him physically. And then from the image that The New Democrat has of the President here, his right eye almost looks swollen, like he was just in a fist fight. And this is well before his Rambling Don character returns and he's essentially trying to give a lecture about transportation safety (a subject he's knows very little about) off the cuff, in front of a live national TV audience.
And then the President's hair and lips are sort of yellow, while his skin is orange. And he looks like he didn't go to bed at all last night as well. And this is how he presents himself to the American people as President of the United States, in front of a national TV audience.
And then my 2nd point here and this gets to even why Republicans and Independents who voted for this man, do not like him. 13-14 hours after this tragic airplane crash over the Potomac River in Washington, he's already looking for anyone else in the world, that he can blame for it, besides himself and anyone who is currently connected to him, for this horrible crash, before the Federal Aviation Administration can even start their investigation for why and how this happened.
Donald J. Trump is obviously not Harry S. Truman. (Also in the news: Roseanne Barr is not Michelle Obama) President Truman was famous for saying "The buck stops here". Meaning that the President of the United States is responsible for everything that happens in his administration. They get the credit when things go well in their administration, or generally do. And then they're responsible when things go badly in their administration.
With President Trump "The buck stops with anyone else when things go badly". And when things go well "The buck stops with me and only me".
According to the National Transportation Safety Board:
"The last fatal crash involving a U.S. commercial airline occurred in 2009 in New York, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. Everyone aboard the Bombardier DHC-8 propeller plane was killed, including 45 passengers, 2 pilots and 2 flight attendants."
I'm not a fan of what's called affirmative action or DEI either. I think the best jobs and education slots should go to the best available people possible, regardless of their ethnic or racial backgrounds, or their gender. And that we have the best civil rights law enforcement possible, as well as the best education possible, especially for people who come from lower education and low-income communities, regardless of their racial and ethnic backgrounds.
And you can talk about DEI all you want... we didn't have a major plane crash during the entire presidency of Joe Biden. We had 1 during the first year of Barack Obama's presidency, before DEI became a well-known political term and President Obama didn't have another 1 after that. During President Trump's 1st week back as President, he ends all DEI hiring. And the 2nd week, we have this horrible plane crash on his watch.
I think it's obvious why President Trump is jumping the gun and already looking to blame anyone else and anyone who isn't connected to his administration for last night's plane crash. He knows how bad this makes him and his administration look and how it could hurt him politically. Sean Duffy was sworn in as Secretary of Transportation literally yesterday and this plane crash happens just hours later. Which I guess is sort like buying a new house and you go to that place that night to spend your first night there, but there's just 1 problem: the house is already on fire.
Intelligent, competent, responsible, well-qualified people in power, wait for the investigation to at least get started and for real facts to come out, before they look for someone to blame for whatever the tragedy is. But I guess that's not what American voters were looking for in 2024 when they voted for President of the United States. They were looking for someone to "shake things up, who won't be boring". And that's what they're getting. They're getting what they voted for.
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