Elon Musk backs Trump's FAA changes, calls Biden-era hiring "insane"

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

38% : Upon his return to office, Trump pushed to remove all diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives from federal programs, and during a news conference on Thursday, he suggested diversity hiring programs were to blame for the collision.
38% : In Thursday's press conference, Trump read from a January 2024 Fox News article, which he mistakenly said was from this month, about an FAA program to recruit people with "severe" disabilities.
21% : Trump said his standards were the "complete opposite" of what President Joe Biden's administration had in place and pointed to DEI efforts as a potential reason for the crash.
8% : In a White House memo issued on Thursday, Trump again blamed the previous Democratic administrations for the crash, writing: "This shocking event follows problematic and likely illegal decisions during the Obama and Biden Administrations that minimized merit and competence in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

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