Donald Trump, with dozens of bodies still in the water literally a mile away, callously used the collision of a military helicopter and a commercial airliner that killed 67 people to spew racist, homophobic and misogynistic lies about DEI, and stopped just short of calling former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg a nancy boy.
“You know how badly everything’s run since he’s run the Department of Transportation?” said Trump, who, in his senility, appeared in his Thursday presser on the air tragedy that Buttigieg is no longer the top guy at the Department of Transportation.
“He’s a disaster. He was a disaster as a mayor, he ran his city into the ground, and he’s a disaster now. He’s just got a good line of bullshit,” Trump said. “The Department of Transportation is government agency charged with regulating civil aviation while he runs it, 45,000 people, and he’s run it right into the ground with his diversity.”
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Again, Buttigieg doesn’t run the DOT – that would be a random DE-White guy named Sean Duffy, literally picked by Trump for a spot in his Cabinet because he was once a contestant on “The Real World.”
That best-and-brightest appointment led to us getting this gem from Duffy at a late-night presser on the DC disaster, which, again, killed 67 people:
“Obviously, it is not standard to have aircraft collide. I want to be clear on that.”
Trump, after giving a similarly dense dissertation on how the helicopter could have just flown over the plane, clumsily read text from an FAA policy put into effect in 2013 that he seems to think is the smoking gun as to how the military helicopter and the plane ended up colliding.
“Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring,” Trump monotoned from the text. “They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism.”
The text is real, but as I noted, it’s been in effect since 2013, meaning, Trump had four years to get it off the books, and didn’t.
The good reason behind that: the FAA, according to a statement on the 12-year-old policy, noted that it “employs tens of thousands of people for a wide range of positions, from administrative roles to oversight and execution of critical safety functions.”
“Like many large employers, the agency proactively seeks qualified candidates from as many sources as possible, all of whom must meet rigorous qualifications that of course will vary by position,” the FAA said in the statement.
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The Moron-in-Chief seems to think the FAA, at Buttigieg’s directive, had a partially paralyzed non-binary dwarf with several intellectual and psychiatric disabilities and without a left foot and missing several fingertips in the tower at Reagan last night, and that’s why the chopper and the plane collided.
I left out the part about the controller not being White.
Trump lobbed the claim that there was a “group within the FAA” that had “determined the workforce was too White.”
“They actually came out with a directive saying it’s too White,” Trump said.
Um, actually, no, “they” didn’t – what he’s citing there is a lawsuit filed by a crackpot former air traffic controller in 2018 who was invited to talk about his nonsense without pushback by former Fox News blowhole Tucker Carlson.
That guy claimed in the interview that the FAA was “too White.”
It doesn’t seem his lawsuit got too far; the Google machine doesn’t seem to even be aware that it got beyond the filing stage.
Whoever put this in front of Trump assumes that the people who will hear the soundbites from his Orwellian rant won’t bother to do their own research to make sure they’re not being lied to, since it doesn’t involve Joe Rogan, RFK Jr. or Aaron Rodgers bloviating about Fauci needing to go to jail because of vaccines and mask mandates.
Maybe Buttigieg, who isn’t afraid to go on Fox News to engage the other side on its own playing field, can get in front of them with what he had to say on Twitter after the Trump presser.
“President Trump now oversees the military and the FAA. One of his first acts was to fire and suspend some of the key personnel who helped keep our skies safe. Time for the President to show actual leadership and explain what he will do to prevent this from happening again,” Buttigieg wrote.
Wait, so you mean, a Trump executive order might have had something to do with how this collision happened?
The hell, you say.
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