We all have heard about the air tragedy in DC….two planes collided and fell into the Potomac and everyone has died. As usual the world is looking for reasons and answers…..and the most damn absurd reason has come from Trump and his idiot minions and supporters….
President scapegoats diversity and inclusion initiatives while addressing air traffic disaster that left 67 dead
Donald Trump used the plane crash in Washington DC to attack his political enemies, claiming Democrats were responsible for declining standards in air traffic control and that the disaster “could have been” caused by diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies at the Federal Aviation Administration.
Trump turned what might have been a sombre a press conference into a baseless rant against DEI, despite no evidence of a link with the crash at Ronald Reagan Washington National airport, which involved an American Airlines jet and a US military helicopter.
The president was backed by the transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, who said “we can only accept the best and the brightest” in positions affecting passenger safety, and the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, who said: “The era of DEI is gone at the defense department and we need the best and brightest.”
Then came the vice-president, JD Vance, who claimed, “we want to hire the best people … actually competent enough to do the job”, and said without offering evidence that hundreds had sued the US government because “they would like to be air traffic controllers, but they were turned away because of the color of their skin”.
Trump claimed that “very powerful tests” for competence in air traffic control were “terminated” by Joe Biden. He also claimed that when he was president between 2017 and 2021 the US “had a much higher standard [in air traffic control] than anybody else”.
Pressed on his citation of DEI as a cause of the crash, Trump said: “It just could have been.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/30/trump-washington-dc-plane-crash-dei
Dems fault? This is what morons do when they try to sound intelligent.
DEI? Seriously?
And this claim will fly around social media and idiots will regurgitate it over and over until it is believe by the mental midgets that support conservs and His Majesty…..
Just when you thought their stupidity was as low as it could go…..BAM! you have this.
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
Using scare tactics to promote their program.
That has been a GOP tactic for 40 years. chuq
Attacking the DEI programs in connection with disasters might be a way of softly warming people up to the idea that some people have less intellect than others are inferior to others, etc. This could, under the proper circumstances, become the groundwork for searching out all “Undesirables” — the mentally challenged, the physically sick, the aged, the infirm, the outcasts, the dregs of social orders, the incapacitated, the chronically unemployed, and adopting or inventing ways to remove their influences from the Newly Great America through one kind of purge or another or by simply removing them from the society in sundry and various ways.
This is a prescription for making idiots more stupid and continuing the line of morons we have now. chuq
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??? John what is this? chuq
well that comment didn’t work out did it? sorry about that.
okay chuq
I read on the BBC website that he was heard to complain about ‘The hiring of amputees and dwarfs’ as air traffic controllers, as if that made any difference in their ability to do the job. (One of the amputees he was complaining about is apparently someone who lost a leg in Afghanistan serving in the military). Also, when he was woken up to be told about the crash involving a military helicopter, he asked “Was the pilot flying the helicopter black?” This stuff is being leaked from the White House because the staff are appalled at his behaviour. And today, following more fatal aircraft accidents, he has gone to his Florida home to play golf. When will America wake up to this man?
Best wishes, Pete.
It is all so absurd but then that is what Trump is good at and his supporters are too damn stupid to see the damage he is doing. chuq