Donald Trump's Anti-Woke Wrecking Ball

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

75% : At Thursday's press conference, after musing about the "high standard" he'd maintained when hiring air-traffic controllers in his first term, Trump said, "There are things where you have to go by brainpower, you have to go by psychological quality, and psychological quality is a very important element of it."
68% : It is essential, Trump said, that air-traffic controllers be hired for their "intellect, talent -- the word 'talent,' " but, instead, the Democrats "came out with a directive: too white."
64% : The next day, President Trump called a press conference.
58% : " That statement could be a motto for this Administration, but what Trump meant in this case was that diversity initiatives at the Federal Aviation Administration had somehow caused the calamity.
58% : (Helicopters have "the ability to go up or down," Trump noted.)
53% : (Congressional Republicans, of course, remain highly invested in Trump; they held a retreat last week at his golf club in Doral, Florida, where the President's name had been scorched onto the hamburger buns.)
48% : Trump's new press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, was asked whether the seventy-two million Americans who rely on Medicaid were guaranteed their health insurance.
42% : " The new Administration has been moving fast and operating almost exclusively by executive order -- Trump seems largely uninterested in Congress, and his Inaugural Address offered barely any legislative agenda.
39% : An agenda that casts doubt even momentarily on a basic social program like Medicaid can't honestly be said to be either populist or "America First"; and Trump's vows to install a government based on merit were undermined by his roster of clearly unqualified nominees.
30% : Was Trump just "weaving" when he used a press conference following a horrific plane crash to rant about diversity initiatives, or was he getting his Administration back on an anti-woke message, after overreaching in withholding federal funds?
21% : " Trump offered no evidence that diversity had anything to do with the crash and, at other points, seemed to place the blame for it on the pilot of the Black Hawk.

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