Did Trump's War On Competence Cause DC Plane Crash, Or Was It The Gay?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Trump returned again and again to the idea that people with severe intellectual disabilities are in air traffic control towers, reading the list of disabilities several times and exclaiming at one point, "All qualify for the position of a controller of airplanes pouring into our country, pouring into a little spot, a little dot on the map, a little runway."
52% : Same for the freeze/not freeze on federal spending.
46% : "Trump claimed repeatedly that the FAA under Barack and Joe had long discriminated against white controllers, and crowed that instead,"I changed the Obama standards from very mediocre at best to extraordinary, you remember that.
45% : Trump readily admitted yesterday that the direct cause of the collision isn't yet known, but that lack of evidence didn't keep him from wildly speculating that DEI just obviously was connected somehow.Democrats should play a similar game, noting that Trump has hollowed out the FAA and aviation safety and pointing out the actions he's taken, which are far more relevant to safety in the air than any of the nonsense he's spouted about DEI.
40% : Trump didn't bother to appoint an acting head of the FAA until yesterday, formally choosing deputy administrator Chris Rocheleau to be the acting administrator.
38% : Trump skipped that nuance and lied in the news conference that the FAA routinely hires people with intellectual disabilities and psychiatric disorders to work as air traffic controllers, because that's a much scarier story than the boring reality that the majority of FAA workers aren't in the control tower anyway; they're doing data entry or filing or all the other jobs necessary to run a federal agency.
34% : It was all bullshit, but that's how Trump does things, at least after he finished reciting the "differences between Americans fade to nothing compared to the bonds of affection and loyalty that unite us all" crap that his speechwriters made him say.
32% : Oh, yes, here's the kicker: That policy continued uninterrupted under Trump.
31% : All Lies, All The TimeOnce he had that kumbaya garbage out of the way, Trump got to what was clearly the thing that mattered most for him: explaining that even though the cause of the crash is undetermined, it was obviously diversity, because that was just "common sense.
29% : Trump did at least hold back from saying the FAA hired R-words for the job.
26% : But that didn't stop Trump from insisting that it had to be because hiring women, minorities, and people with disabilities had led to dangerously lax standards in the nation's airlines and air traffic control system.
16% : For months before Trump took office, co-president Elon Musk, angry about the FAA fining him for shoddy operations at his rocket company, constantly harassed FAA administrator Michael Whitaker on Twitter, demanding he resign, and on January 20, Whitaker quit the agency.
13% : Trump referred to one of his stupid executive orders ending diversity programs in government and repeatedly lied about a FAA diversity program aimed at hiring people with disabilities.
3% : Donald Trump wasted no time Thursday in blaming Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, and diversity for Wednesday night's fatal collision between an airliner and an Army helicopter, the US's first fatal commercial airliner crash since 2009.

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