Trump takes aim at diversity initiatives in wake of DC crash
President Donald Trump overnight questioned the actions of the army helicopter pilot and air traffic controller ahead of a deadly midair collision in Washington and quickly veered into politics to speculate that Democrats and diversity initiatives shared blame for the deaths of 67 people.
Because I am a news geek, I watched Trump’s press conference live.
It started out fine.
He was sombre, doing all the noises you would expect from any President in their Consoler in Chief role.
And then he suddenly takes a sharp turn, starts rambling about Biden and some past safety rules and then starts claiming that Diversity Hires are the reason the plane crashed!
The sharp in take of breath you can hear from the journalists at such an insane comment just hangs in the air until he finally ends for questions.
The eruption of questions demanding how the fuck he could possibly link this tragedy to diversity hire at the press conference announcing the deaths roared out from the journalists and he doubled down each time.
Just as we saw with the LA Fires, you’ve had public services cut to the bone and my guess is that the new flight routes and cut backs had more to do with this tragedy than Diversity hires…
As authorities piece together the nation’s deadliest US airline crash since 2001, the tragedy has raised new concerns about the specific dangers at Reagan National, which has had a series of near-misses in recent years. Experts and some lawmakers said they were concerned that the airspace was about to get more congested in the wake of Congress’ decision last year to ease restrictions that had limited the airport to nonstop flights within 2012km of Washington, with few exceptions.
Lawmakers enabled airlines to launch new routes to destinations like Seattle and San Francisco. The plan fuelled intense debate about congestion versus convenience, with some legislators heralding new flights to their home states while others warned of potential tragedy.
The flight that crashed was not part of the expansion. It was added by American Airlines in January of last year amid a push by Kansas lawmakers for more service between Reagan National and Wichita.
…for Trump to voice these insane partisan views while families sobbed in grief is a new low, even for Trump.
He’s so vile.
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Donald Trump wants to send migrants to Guantanamo Bay
Xenophobe will debate you that Trumpo was right albeit Trumpo uses alternative facts.
Democrat Senator Tim Kaine has for some time now voiced his concerns about the increase in the number of flights and helicopters and the increased risk of an accident….it’s the Swiss cheese effect….however.. every time he got shouted down by the Republicans…
It’s all on record…that’s why Trump is throwing up this diatribe to head off any blame…
Hmmm..who else does this remind you of….hint…”Blame Labour”.1
Trump wants you to forget Jan 6th 2021 and like the gullible and easily persuaded, you have. You believe everything Fox News tells you.
This is why you are a loser.
Is Trumps nominee RFK jnr, to lead the Health and Human Services dept a diversity hire, since a solium pork tape worm ate part of his central nervous system causing mental fogginess and memory loss?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/08/robert-f-kennedy-jr-worm-brain
Temporarily.
Like a certain politician here, Rump knows everything and lets us know what he’s decided before any facts have been established. Fails to listen and fails to act on advice.
In anyone else, we’d say that’s unintelligent and indicates a personality disorder.
But nobody ever said it about Biden until the disastrous debate opened the floodgates of horror.
And yet Biden hasn’t really sounded like that since. Trump however has consistently sounded like a f’ing idiot
Let’s face it, the woke days are coming to an end.
The leftie sensitive snowflakes days are numbered as what trends in the USA eventually finds its way here. Countries are turning their backs on cultural Marxism and pride Month, #blm, DEI and 73 genders will be a thing of the past.
Can’t happen soon enough. Amen for sanity.
Righties believe in tooth fairies. The USA has a right wing maniac running the country and the mindless right wing followers will follow Trump to his grave.
Bg fails to grasp that Trump was shot at and that doesn’t indicate everyone is jumping on the Trump delusional bandwagon.
The insanity of the right is on full display with Bg’s post.
Whether something is coming to an end or not is irrelevant. It doesn’t change Trump being a complete moron. People like you support him out of some weird tribal allegiance rather than calling a spade a spade
Wokeness might become a thing of the past but so will your freedom. Cultural Marxism replaced with oppressive, corrupt fascism. The trend in the USA has already found it’s way here and you are one of its promoters.
Any failures of air traffic management that might have contributed to this accident can’t be put down to the “diversity”, or lack thereof, of the controllers, but to the simple fact that there weren’t enough of them. In 1981 the Reagan administration broke the strike of PATCO, the air traffic controllers union, and dis-established the union, opening up the way to the cutbacks and compromises on safety that, despite the best efforts to the controllers on the job, have led to the present situation.
Not a unique story of course. Against the resistance of the unions, rail bosses in the U.S have been pushing for engineer-only crews on long-distance freight lines, abolishing the role of conductors. Here in NZ the same profit-driven, cost-cutting capitalist mentality led to Pike River and other tragedies.
Bg spot on the world has had enough of ridiculous wing politics.Time to move forward.
Ridiculous wing politics? If you mean it’s f’ing ridiculous to support a complete moron because you are right wing you are right Bob. Surely you can be right wing or conservative and acknowledge he’s an enormous orange turd of a “man”
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