Buttigieg fires back at Trump after remarks on midair collision: 'Despicable'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : He's just got a good line of bulls‑‑‑," Trump said.
47% : " Buttigieg's comments came minutes after Trump concluded a press conference on the Wednesday night crash between a Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines flight near Reagan Washington National Airport.
47% : Vice President Vance claimed that recent years have seen "many hundreds of people suing the government because they would like to be air traffic controllers but they were turned away because of the color of their skin." Asked how he could know diversity played a role in the crash when he acknowledged that air traffic controllers may not have done anything wrong, Trump told reporters it was because he has "common sense."
40% : We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch," Buttigieg said in a post on X. "President Trump now oversees the military and the FAA.
39% : Appearing before reporters in the White House briefing room, Trump knocked his Democratic predecessors over aviation standards, suggesting that the Democrats didn't put safety first -- and he suggested that diversity initiatives have weakened the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
35% : Earlier in the briefing, Trump had emphasized a cause of the crash hadn't been pinned down.
32% : As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying.
25% : Their policy was horrible, and their politics was even worse," Trump told reporters from the White House briefing room.
8% : Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg hit back after President Trump criticized the Biden administration and diversity initiatives in the aftermath of a deadly midair collision outside Washington, D.C. "Despicable.

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