Trump rails against DEI after DC plane crash, but it doesn’t apply to air traffic controllers
see above for the burn and flip
“I put safety first … Democrats put policy first,” Trump said.
Three passengers on a Delta Air Lines flight including a child were critically injured when the plane crash-landed and flipped upside-down at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday.
Flight records identify the craft as Delta Flight 4819, which took off from Minneapolis about 11:47 a.m. The crash happened just before 3 p.m. Images show the mangled airliner smoldering on the snowy runway as dazed passengers scrambled out.
The belly-up jet looked badly damaged in photos and video circulating on social media, with one wing severely crumpled and the tail section partially sheared off.
Of course Swollowell blamed Trump on the latest crash which occured in Canada.
Swalwell declares ‘all crashes are Trump’s fault’ as he doubles down on plane disaster blame game
2 people were killed in a single-engine plane crash in Covington, Georgia this weekend
Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., is facing backlash online after suggesting President Donald Trump is to blame for a small plane crash in Georgia this weekend.
Swalwell took to social media Monday morning to declare that Trump has had “more planes crash” in his first month in office than any other U.S. president. He then doubled down on the comment with a blunt statement to Fox News Digital.
“Trump is President. President Trump is in charge of air safety. All crashes are Trump’s fault,” he said.The lawmaker made his initial comment in reaction to a small private plane crash that took place this weekend in Covington, Georgia, which left two people dead.
White House communications director Steven Cheung tore apart Swalwell in a statement reacting to his claim.
“Swalwell must be taking his orders from Fang Fang or suffering from a severe debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome because there is no other reason anyone with a functioning brain would make that that type of false and disgusting claim. He is a complete disgrace not only as an elected official, but as a human being who has continued to beclown himself,” Cheung said.
Trump rails against DEI after DC plane crash, but it doesn’t apply to air traffic controllers
“I put safety first … Democrats put policy first,” Trump said.
Swalwell’s claim also appears to be false, according to data from the National Transportation Safety Board’s CAROL database. According to the catalog, there have been five fatal aviation incidents since Trump took office. The database shows 10 fatal incidents over the same period for President Biden’s term, however.
Trump blames deadly plane crash on diversity efforts President Donald Trump claimed, without citing evidence, that Democrats’ diversity programs are to blame for the American Airlines crash with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter that killed 67 people.
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President Donald Trump on Thursday claimed, without citing evidence, that diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives for air traffic controllers at the Federal Aviation Administration — under Democratic presidents — were partly to blame for the tragic plane and helicopter collision in Washington on Wednesday night.
The air disaster occurred as an American Airlines passenger jet approaching Reagan Washington National Airport collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on a routine training flight.
“I put safety first, Obama, Biden and the Democrats put policy first, and they put politics at a level that nobody’s ever seen,” Trump told reporters in the White House briefing room, referring to the policies, even as the investigation into what happened just getting underway.
This is the first major commercial airline crash in the United States since 2009, when 50 people died after a plane crashed while landing near Buffalo Niagara International Airport.
“I had to say that it’s terrible,” he said, citing what he called a story about a group within the FAA that had “determined that the [FAA] workforce was too white, that they had concerted efforts to get the administration to change that and to change it immediately. This was in the Obama administration, just prior to my getting there, and we took care of African Americans, Hispanic Americans.”