Senile Florida Man Blames DEI, Minorities, for Fatal Plane Tragedy

In the wake of the worst air-based accident in DC since 2001, President Trump took it upon himself to comfort and reassure grieving American people.

JK, he made up a racist, sexist, ableist lie and blamed this accident on DEI.

Yeah, Trump blamed a non-existent “diversity push” at the FAA without evidence for the midair collision in the Washington, DC area.

“I do want to point out that various articles that appeared prior to my entering office. And here’s one, the FAA’s diversity push includes focus on hiring people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities. That is amazing. And then it says FAA says people with severe disabilities are most underrepresented segment of the workforce said ‘they want them in, and they want them, they can be air traffic controllers. I don’t think so. This was January 14, so that was a week before I entered office. They put a big push to put diversity into the FAA’s program. Brilliant people have to be in those positions, and their lives are actually shortened, very substantially shortened because of the stress where you have many, many planes coming into one target, and you need a very special talent and a very special genius to be able to do it." - Donald Trump

The polarization of the Trump administration has also left several key roles empty at the FAA.

Mike Whitaker, who was head of the Federal Aviation Administration during the Biden administration, stepped down ahead of the new administration and his position has yet to be filled, leaving the aviation agency without a key leader during one of the deadliest aviation crashes in American history.

Whitaker had notably clashed with Elon Musk over the agency’s oversight of rocket launches.

Deputy administrator Katie Thomson left on January 10, as well. Musk called on Whitaker to resign in September, after Whitaker had testified before Congress and faced tough questions about the agency’s oversight of SpaceX.

According to the FAA website, the agency doesn't have an associate administrator of airports, an associate administrator for security and hazardous materials safety, chief counsel, assistant administrator of communications, assistant administrator of government and industry affairs and assistant administrator for policy, international affairs and environment as the new administration ramps up its leadership.

Donald Trump also fired Transportation Security Administration chief David Pekoske on Inauguration Day.

The agency still has not filled Pekoske’s role or the deputy administrator role either.