The tragic air collision revealed Trump's rancid, irredeemable character once again | Sidney Blumenthal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

81% : Mounting the pulpit at New York's Marble Collegiate church to deliver the main eulogy, Trump began: "I was having the greatest year of my business career, and I was sitting having breakfast thinking of how well things were going for me."
64% : Trump loves to swagger in the ceremonial pomp of his office, preferably surrounded by military guards, full-dress Fredonia.
63% : They have been hired under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, a signature achievement of President George HW Bush.
58% : The morning after the crash, Trump warmed to his blaming exercise, expanding his targets as he went on.
58% : Trump snipped: "Because I have common sense, OK?
56% : Somehow, he claimed, the presence of non-white people was the reason for the crash.
52% : President Trump now oversees the military and the FAA.
42% : "Why should we give him medical coverage?" said Trump.
37% : Trump is more mafia kingpin than king, certainly not a constitutional monarch.
36% : While police and firefighters were still recovering bodies from the Potomac River, before any report from the National Transportation Safety Board and evidence was fully gathered, Trump went on TV to spew blame against enemies within and to deflect responsibility.
34% : When, in 1995, a far-right extremist bombed the Alfred P Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people in the worst domestic terrorist incident in the country's history, Bill Clinton went there, comforted the families of the victims "to share your grief", and, citing scripture, said: "One thing we owe those who have sacrificed is the duty to purge ourselves of the dark forces which gave rise to this evil.
32% : As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying.
30% : Buttigieg was "bullshit", while Trump said, self-referentially: "We want brilliant people doing this."
30% : Trump views Musk partly as the muscle in his protection racket.
30% : The portrait of Trump in the film The Apprentice mistakenly depicts him in the beginning as a naive, impressionable young man, who fell into Roy Cohn's hands and was molded by the mafia lawyer into a monster.
29% : If the senators don't pay the protection money in the form of obedient votes, Trump will get Musk to break their windows.
23% : On the contrary, Trump was a monster in the making.
22% : But Trump crashed through a new boundary after an army helicopter collided with an airliner about to land at Washington's Reagan National airport on 29 January with the loss of 67 lives.
22% : "Trump next turned to the "great replacement theory" as his overarching explanation.
21% : "He's just got a good line of bullshit," said Trump, "and he's run it right into the ground with his diversity.
20% : Trump demeaned in his attempt to enlarge himself.
16% : Trump jumped to attack the former transport secretary Pete Buttigieg as "a disaster", throwing in an obscenity.
8% : Trump replied: "It just could have been."He blamed Biden again.
6% : And then Trump blamed Biden.

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