NY Times: “Trump, without citing evidence, blames DEI and Democrats for plane crash. President Trump’s remarks, suggesting that diversity requirements and other policies somehow caused the collision of a passenger jet and an Army helicopter near Washington…”
There are no words.
Oh, wait, here’s some: FUCKING ASSHOLE. Not a SINGLE IOTA of compassion. How about “My heart goes out to the victims’ families”? GODDAMNED FUCKING SHITWAD.
(Okay, I’m calm now…more or less…)
I’ve read a lot of callous and unfeeling things in my 77 years and maybe even said a few, but this really drops the bottom out of things.
But… but… I thought the White House announced that Trump fixed this a week ago?
The Fact Sheet’s banner explicitly says safety has been restored!
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Ends DEI Madness and Restores Excellence and Safety within the Federal Aviation Administration
January 22, 2025
And isn’t Hegseth in charge of the army helicopter now?
Please have a link to a transcript of this part! Seriously, I cannot force myself to listen to even one syllable he utters. Listening to the whole thing would be torture.
Oh, there were plenty of fake words of sympathy and faux religious sentiments. I’m not sure which is more nauseating.
OK, but it is long and ignorant.
…
Mr. President.
Speaker 12 (43:59):
I want to ask you about the ice skaters in a moment because the U.S. Ice Skating committee was affected, but first, if I can, the cited FAA tax that you read is real, but the implications that this policy is new or that it stems from efforts that began under President Biden nor the transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg is demonstrably false. It’s been on the FAA’s website-
Trump (44:16):
Who said that, you?
Speaker 12 (44:17):
No, it’s on the website, the FAA’s website. It was there in 2013. It was there for the entirety-
Trump (44:21):
Take a look. What I read-
Speaker 12 (44:22):
It was there for the entirety of your administration too.
Trump (44:24):
Nice and easy.
Speaker 12 (44:24):
So my question is why didn’t you change the policy during your first administration?
Trump (44:28):
I did change it. I changed the Obama policy and we had a very good policy and then Biden came in and he changed it and then when I came in two days, three days ago, I signed a new order bringing it to the highest level of intelligence. Okay.
Speaker 12 (44:41):
It was on the website.
crowd (44:42):
Mr. President.
Trump (44:42):
Please.
Speaker 12 (44:42):
Respectfully, it was on the website.
Got it. Did he mention “two corinthians”?
Monty, someone video captured it, but I can only access it via Reddit.
I’m not sure if that will work by you…
Many thanks.
I just watched the NTSB briefing (mind you it’s only now 5:30 a.m. where I am (vacationing in Seoul) now. The chairwoman responded to a question I didn’t hear. Her response was that she and her team would not speculate. A follow-on question to her response was about Trump’s comment about the cause of the crash. Chairwoman Homendy responded, without mentioning Trump, that, again, she and her team would not speculate, but would base their findings on evidence after examining “the people, the machines, and the environment”. The most important part of her reply was that it is irresponsible to speculate.
You know full well that Trump will start chucking ketchup bottles left and right now that an independent agency’s chairwoman called him irresponsible and implied he’s ignorant of facts.
BBC News had a republican strategist named Mark Terrill on right now. That flack was justifying Trump’s comments, all of them, and just now stated Trump is "very honest, very transparent*.
Another person on, I think his name is Kurt Vaidel (didn’t see the spelling, and just heard the name at the end) lit into the flack. The following quote is to the best of my recollection.
The family members of those who died in this accident deserve factual, accurate determination of what happened and not the free riffing opinions of the leader of the free world, opions because he does not like diversity.
I bet he doesn’t want to talk about them because he doesn’t like Poles.
No, and the Emoluments Clauses don’t address it.
But we’d ‘wet the sponges’. Promise.
If by transparent, he means we can see right straight through the bastard, then I agree. 
The thing that has Donald dancing so hard to the ‘this happened because of FAA employing amputees and dwarfs’ tune (really!) is that the Jan 22 action you link to RESULTED IN FEWER AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS the night of the crash.
Not to mention Elon pushing out the FAA administrator:
The extent to which the FAA and all associated services were short-staffed due to Donald being all obsessed with white-male-only staffing, is yet to be nailed down.
But Donald has to be dreading having that information come out.
I expected someone to say something about mmy pun, but I have no idea wha this means.
I was wondering, too. “Wet the sponges” to me conveys a reference to The Green Mile (in which a sadistic guard basically tortured a man being executed by electrocution, by neglecting to wet the sponge that normally goes on the prisoner’s head.) But I could be wrong about that.
(“Poles” in that context would be something to do with the electricity going through the condemned person’s body, maybe.)
I’m not sadistic though. I’d wet the sponges.
We are in serious danger here of veering into something involving electric boats and sharks.
Electric boats powered by windmills.
Bring back windjammers!