DEI Delusion: Donald Trump Really Found A Way To Blame The Washington D.C. Air Collision On Obama, Biden & Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : "I changed the Obama standards from very mediocre at best to extraordinary," Trump said during his first press conference following the collision.
49% : "But on the other hand, it puts stresses on the people who are already there and I think that is a core part of what President Trump is going to bring and has already brought to Washington DC.
48% : Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) -- who, last week, proposed a constitutional amendment to allow Trump to serve a third term in office -- also wondered out loud whether DEI "played a role" in the crash.
42% : CNBC noted the language Trump quoted "has been on the website since at least 2013 -- a time period that includes Trump's entire first White House term."
40% : In fact, Trump, a sitting president speaking in the wake of a tragedy that left no survivors, took the opportunity while making his first in-person public statement on the crash to politicize what happened by blaming both his predecessors, Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama, as well as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which he claimed, without evidence as usual, contributed to the incident by practicing -- yep, you guessed it -- DEI.
40% : Of course, none of that should be surprising since Trump and the MAGA-fied GOP's entire anti-DEI warpath has been presented without a shred of unambiguous evidence whatsoever that any entity's DEI efforts have resulted in a lowering of standards in any industry.
31% : " Trump didn't just start pointing wayward fingers at random ex-presidents and DEI, he stood there, on stage, during a press conference regarding a deadly tragedy, and he read from right-wing articles critical of diversity efforts at the FAA.
30% : (Not that Trump is going to let a little thing like verifiable facts get in the way of a good MAGA lie.)
21% : These people never cite evidence, they just repeat these lies as frequently as possible until they're normalized enough to be accepted as plausible "truth.") Trump isn't the only one pulling "DEI" nonsense out of his white nationalist hind parts.
18% : (The same goes for the white-and-eternally-fragile war on Critical Race Theory and Trump's election fraud propaganda.
9% : Again, Trump presented zero evidence that the standards at the FAA were lowered under Obama or that they were re-lowered under Biden.

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