The shocking plane crash on the Potomac River at Reagan National Airport in Washington DC is a massive tragedy, the first such event since 2009.
Overall, America has an outstanding record regarding air traffic control, although there have been a number of “close shaves”, near accidents, that thankfully did not occur.
But for Donald Trump to make the tragedy political and claim that Democrats, and specifically Joe Biden and Barack Obama, are responsible due to “DEI”, is unconscionable.
Trump claims that having some air traffic controllers who are women or non white men lower the standards of excellence is an outrage, pure racism and sexism! And to bring up the concept of intellectual or mental disabilities is ridiculous, as no one is engaged in this kind of work who has intellectual or mental disabilities.
It is making people who have such disabilities a new target for Donald Trump, who, however, has made fun of disabled reporters in past years, and has no heart or common decency!
Of course, his loyal supporters, including Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and new Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy just mouth his prejudices.
And Trump attacked reporters who challenged his purposefully biases, with no shame, although he does not have a clue as to what caused the tragedy!
And he also attacked a great public servant, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who was outstanding in that position under Joe Biden, and also served well as Mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
By making Buttigieg an easy target directly, Trump is also speaking out the fact that Buttigieg is a gay male with a husband and two sons, but at the same time, Trump has a Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, who is also a gay male with a husband and children, so a clear double standard!
Some of the collision victims:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/us/dc-plane-crash-victims/index.html
Elon Musk was responsible for the head of the FAA resigning.
https://digbysblog.net/2025/01/30/elon-wanted-him-out/
Trump On If He’ll Visit Site Of Deadly Aviation Collision: ‘You Want Me To Go Swimming?’
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-site-aviation-crash-you-want-me-to-go-swimming_n_679bf21fe4b0e1faebeef7e9
If President Biden had forced out the FAA chief under pressure from his top adviser and his corrupt motives, and then the next week there was a plane crash that killed more than 60 people, Republicans would be howling that it was an impeachable offense.
The investigation into the crash will be led by the independent National Transportation Safety Board, which is chaired by Jennifer Homendy. She has also clashed with Musk, over the safety of self-driving software in his Tesla cars.
She’ll be labeled as DEI and Musk and Trump will try to get rid of her.
Trump is pure scum.
Trump’s FAA used the same language about hiring people with disabilities he’s now blasting.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/politics/faa-disability-hiring-trump-fact-check/index.html
Now they are going after holidays.
The Pentagon intelligence agency won’t be celebrating MLK Day, Black History Month, Juneteenth, etc.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pentagon-intelligence-agency-pauses-events-activities-related-mlk/story?id=118244237
Hours after his display in the briefing room, Trump signed an executive memorandum in the Oval Office, which claimed the crash “follows problematic and likely illegal decisions during the Obama and Biden Administrations that minimized merit and competence in the Federal Aviation Administration.”
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-latest-executive-action-made-post-crash-blame-game-even-worse-rcna190135
Another plane has crashed. This time in Philadelphia. It’s near a mall and a residential neighborhood.
First the DC air tragedy, now Philly less than 48 hours later? WTF?
It was a medical transport Learjet. FAA says there were 2 people on the plane. Sean Duffy tweeted that there were 6 people on it. That’s possible if it was crew+medical crew+ patient+maybe a family member of the patient.
Appears to have only climbed to about 1600 feet before rapid descent.
NBC confirms that there were 6 people on the plane.
A pediatric patient was on the plane.
In the plane crash in Philadelphia, 6 died on the plane and one person died on the ground.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/us/philadelphia-jet-crash-fire/index.html
F.A.A.’s Main Warning System for Pilots Is Down, U.S. Official Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/us/notam-outage-faa-alerts.html
WTF???
NTSB forces reporters to get plane crash updates on X .
“The agency says it will no longer notify reporters about plane crash press briefings via email.”
https://thedesk.net/2025/02/ntsb-moves-plane-crash-press-updates-x-twitter/
Critical FAA warning system restored after outage.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/travel/notam-system-outage-flight-delays/index.html