Trump: Helicopter, Plane Crash a ‘Confluence of Bad Decisions That Were Made’
I couldn’t watch the press conference in full due to the two Senate confirmation hearings.
The clips, though, show President Donald Trump’s anger towards the Army helicopter and American Airlines midair collision.
No one survived.
Trump placed a lot of blame on DEI.
I wonder if Trump knows something we don’t because his anger could be felt through the screen. He likely does since he’s the president.
Blaming DEI led to some stupid questions by the press:
ABC’s @MaryKBruce: “Mr. President, on DEI — on DEI and the claims that you’ve made, are you saying this crash was somehow caused and the result of diversity hiring and what evidence have you seen to support these claims?”President Trump: “It just could have been. We have a high standard. We’ve had a much higher standard than anybody else and there things where you have to go by brainpower. You have to go by psychological quality and psychological quality is a very important element of it. These are various, very powerful that we put to use and they were terminated by Biden and Biden went by a standard that’s the exact opposite, so we don’t know, but we do know that you had two planes at the same level. You had a helicopter and a plane. That shouldn’t have happened and we’ll we’re going to look into that and we’re going to see, but certainly for an air traffic controller, we want the brightest, the smartest, the we want somebody that’s psychologically superior and that’s what we’re going to have.”
I mean, I agree that the blaming of DEI and other factors shouldn’t be aired right now. But still, it’s not a secret that former President Joe Biden watered down the government in the name of diversity instead of talent.
Another exchange:
NYT’s David Sanger: “Mr. President, you have today blamed the diversity elements, but then told us that you weren’t sure that the controllers made any mistake and then said perhaps the helicopter pilots were —”Trump: “Yeah.”Sanger: “— the ones who made the mistake.”Trump: “It’s all under investigation.”Sanger: “I understand that. That’s why I’m trying to figure out how you can come to the conclusion now that diversity had something to do with this crash.”Trump: “Because I have common sense, okay? And unfortunately, lot of people don’t. We want brilliant people doing this. This is a major chess game at the highest level. When you have 60 planes coming in during a short period of time and they’re all coming in different directions and you’re dealing with very high level computer — computer work and very complex computers and one of the other things I will tell you is that the systems that built I was going to rebuild the entire system and. Then we had an election that didn’t turn out the way it should have, but they didn’t build the systems properly. They spent a lot of money renovating the system, spending much more money than they would have spent if they bought a new for air traffic controllers, meaning the computerized systems.”Sanger: [Inaudible]Trump: “There are certain kinds of companies that do a very good job. They didn’t use those companies.Sanger: “They use companies that should not have been doing it. No. I think — I think this — I think it’s very important to understand that for some and not only this, but air traffic controllers, they have to be at the highest level of genius.”
This was funny:
KAITLAN COLLINS: We don’t even know the names of the pilots, and you are blaming Democrats/DEI. Don’t you think you’re getting ahead of the investigations?TRUMP: No. That’s not a very smart question. I’m SURPRISED, coming from you.
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