# What Should Be Done About Air Safety? Trump: Reduce the Number Air Traffic Controllers **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [February 1, 2025, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-about-air-safety-trump-reduce-the-number-air-traffic-controllers/1013726 "2025-02-01T18:47:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-about-air-safety-trump-reduce-the-number-air-traffic-controllers/1013726/21 "2025-02-03T02:46:42Z")
Traffic _controllers_ – aren’t we sick of all this government regulation? The only thing that should be controlling planes is god. A prayer at the beginning of the flight, and as it makes its emergency descent, is all any true American flight should have. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-about-air-safety-trump-reduce-the-number-air-traffic-controllers/1013726/22 "2025-02-03T08:00:46Z")
It gets worse when you realise this speech was the address to the nation, just 12 hours after the incident. ALL the president ever needs to say in that context is: - We are shocked and saddened - We have the right people investigating what happened and we will find answers - Our hearts go out to the friends and families of the victims But what would I know? I don’t have helicopters. Vance stepped in to try to take control of Trump’s rambling drivel, but only managed to say something about race, then let Trump take the wheel again. ---
**Author:** ![FluffyBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@FluffyBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FluffyBob)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-about-air-safety-trump-reduce-the-number-air-traffic-controllers/1013726/23 "2025-02-03T17:10:20Z")
He stands up in front of the mic and just wings off unprepared bullshit on stuff he has not even reviewed. Its like a twelve year old doing a book report presentation on a book they never opened. There is no way anyone could actually hear this and not see it for what it is. I have to assume Trump voters never actually hear this stuff and just hear the right wing talking point stand up routine. I just don’t fuck8ng get it ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-about-air-safety-trump-reduce-the-number-air-traffic-controllers/1013726/24 "2025-02-03T18:32:01Z")
It makes us angry. That’s all a lot of MAGAs care about. Anything to piss of the libs, even if they have to cut their own throats to get their fix. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-about-air-safety-trump-reduce-the-number-air-traffic-controllers/1013726/25 "2025-02-03T19:00:48Z")
It’s crazy too that online, and in phone ins lots of people saying the president has access to information we don’t know about. As if this is a man that in any way deserves the benefit of the doubt. We’re at Graham’s number, shame on me territory. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-about-air-safety-trump-reduce-the-number-air-traffic-controllers/1013726/26 "2025-02-04T01:34:00Z")
> [@FluffyBob](#): > > There is no way anyone could actually hear this and not see it for what it is. I have to assume Trump voters never actually hear this stuff and just hear the right wing talking point stand up routine. They get cherry-picked sound bites that make him look good. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-about-air-safety-trump-reduce-the-number-air-traffic-controllers/1013726/27 "2025-02-04T13:02:06Z")
You really can’t appreciate “The Weave” until his utterances are transcribed. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-about-air-safety-trump-reduce-the-number-air-traffic-controllers/1013726/28 "2025-02-04T13:12:01Z")
He starts sentences in the middle then works his way to both ends, in piecemeal. So instead of 1-2-3-4-5-6, it’s more like 3-4-2-3-2-3-5-2-1-5-6 This could be an ADHD trait. Is Trump a _DEI hire?_ ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-about-air-safety-trump-reduce-the-number-air-traffic-controllers/1013726/29 "2025-02-04T15:02:38Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > 3-4-2-3-2-3-5-2-1-5-6 And that is assuming that 3-4-2-3-2-3-5-2-1-5-6 are all part of the same sentence…or even thought. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-about-air-safety-trump-reduce-the-number-air-traffic-controllers/1013726/30 "2025-02-04T15:30:22Z")
He is absolutely correct about one thing: if they had been flying at two different heights, the crash would have never happened. That’s wisdom they don’t teach you at your “schools”, it’s wisdom you learn from the mean streets of NYC. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-about-air-safety-trump-reduce-the-number-air-traffic-controllers/1013726/31 "2025-02-04T18:19:36Z")
I thought Sully landed in the river, not the streets. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-about-air-safety-trump-reduce-the-number-air-traffic-controllers/1013726/32 "2025-02-04T18:39:51Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > _Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines_, Just the fact you know of this movie makes me delighted. I have a bootleg copy on the laptop. Tell me you also know “Oh, What a Lovely War” ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-about-air-safety-trump-reduce-the-number-air-traffic-controllers/1013726/33 "2025-02-04T23:17:34Z")
It may be the first time in human history that anyone has determined that if two things are in different places, they are not in the same place. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-about-air-safety-trump-reduce-the-number-air-traffic-controllers/1013726/34 "2025-02-05T03:15:52Z")
Nah, you just need the right [business cards](https://i.etsystatic.com/26286127/r/il/f36458/3119686278/il_fullxfull.3119686278_ajhe.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-about-air-safety-trump-reduce-the-number-air-traffic-controllers/1013726/35 "2025-02-05T16:06:49Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > Just the fact you know of this movie makes me delighted. I have a bootleg copy on the laptop. > > Tell me you also know “Oh, What a Lovely War” Both are great movies! ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-about-air-safety-trump-reduce-the-number-air-traffic-controllers/1013726/36 "2025-02-08T01:33:59Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > So instead of 1-2-3-4-5-6, it’s more like 3-4-2-3-2-3-5-2-1-5-6 And like everything Trump does, it just ends in disappointment. [Monica got it right](https://youtu.be/RpQJanLw53M), but it’s not like he’d listen to a woman! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-about-air-safety-trump-reduce-the-number-air-traffic-controllers/1013726/37 "2025-02-15T05:08:05Z")
Did any Air Traffic people get the axe in the Mass Text Firing today? ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-about-air-safety-trump-reduce-the-number-air-traffic-controllers/1013726/38 "2025-02-17T14:49:37Z")
> **[Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal...](https://apnews.com/article/doge-faa-air-traffic-firings-safety-67981aec33b6ee72cbad8dcee31f3437)** > > The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision in Washington. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-about-air-safety-trump-reduce-the-number-air-traffic-controllers/1013726/39 "2025-02-18T05:51:10Z")
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