Trump meets plane crash tragedy with blame but admits cause remains unknown

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

39% : But most of all, he pointed the finger at diversity programs under the Obama and Biden administrations that Trump targeted on Inauguration Day with several executive orders.
37% : First responders were still recovering bodies from the Potomac River Thursday when President Trump told the nation that his predecessors, Democrats and diversity were to blame for Wednesday night's fatal collision of an Army helicopter and an American Airlines passenger plane landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport.
35% : "Trump made himself the face of the tragedy and the center of the story, as he did in his first term with daily briefings on the coronavirus pandemic, an impulse some advisers said did not always help him politically -- but that he could not always resist.
33% : Within five minutes after asking for a moment of silence for the victims, Trump pivoted to his political agenda, notably his hard-charging plan to reduce the federal bureaucracy and eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs from all agencies.
33% : Trump took special aim at an FAA program to recruit people with disabilities such as missing extremities, paralysis, hearing and vision loss, epilepsy and severe intellectual disability.
33% : I think it's just the opposite," Trump said.
21% : "Trump used a profanity to criticize the Biden administration's transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg.

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