Thursday, January 30, 2025

Trump Denied Responsibility Quick. Isn't It Obvious Why?

 

Trump got himself in front of cameras quick today after last night's tragic collision between the American Airlines flight and a Blackhawk helicopter. We all heard who he blamed with zero evidence (or even logic) -- he blamed Democrats for instituting DEI (his new favorite whipping post) -- but bizarrely Trump added a few new grace notes, mentioning people with "physical and psychiatric conditions" including "dwarves, amputees, and epileptics" who just might have been the air traffic controllers on duty last night who caused the collision. "Who knows," sez Jethro, "but many people say."

His main mission for getting out front and blaming other, nameless people is the obvious evidence that he himself and his goddamn autocratic need to make everyone bend the knee is very possibly the real culprit:

1. Notably, when the Trump administration came in on 20 January, it started swiftly firing federal employees, meaning the Federal Aviation Administration’s leadership is now dotted with vacancies. There is currently no Senate-confirmed administrator leading the agency.

2. Elon Musk, Trump's new butt buddy, had a vendetta against Michael Whitaker, the Federal Aviation Administrator under Biden, who left the agency on inauguration day after Musk demanded his firing.

3. The Washington DC airspace is incredibly, dangerously crowded, especially after the 2024 FAA reauthorization bill added five incoming and five outgoing flights to Washington national airport each day because some members of Congress demanded more direct routes to their home states. Democratic senators from Maryland and Virginia warned that those added flights would be a safety risk:

“The very title of the ‘Direct Access to the Capital Act’ gives the game away that this bill is written to maximize the personal convenience of a comparatively small number of powerful, well-connected individuals at the expense of safety and efficiency of flights – which should be our top priority,” Congressman Don Beyer of Virginia told the Washington Post at the time.

4. Another of Trump's ExecOrders instituted a "blanket hiring freeze," and it's already been reported that the tower at Washington national airport was understaffed with controllers. (Guess they couldn't get any of the dwarves, amputees, or epileptics to come to work last night.) Congressman Rick Larsen, ranking member of the House committee on transportation and infrastructure, said, “Hiring air traffic controllers is the No 1 safety issue according to the entire aviation industry. Instead of working to improve aviation safety and lower costs for hardworking American families, the administration is choosing to spread bogus DEI claims to justify this decision.”

5. Within hours of starting his goddamn tyranny on Jan. 20th, Trump also forced out the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) administrator, David Pekoske, and gutted an aviation security advisory committee.

It's his super-power -- or at least it has been -- for Trump to deny all responsibillity. Because he's a lying turd.


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