'I have common sense': Trump baselessly blames D.C. plane crash that killed 67 on DEI, Biden

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : "Brilliant people have to be in those positions, and their lives are actually shortened, very substantially shortened because of the stress where you have many, many planes coming into one target and you need a very special talent and a very special genius to be able to do it," Trump said.
51% : In his first visit to the White House briefing room since returning to the presidency last week, Trump initially offered a moment of silence for the victims and praised the efforts of first responders after the crash, which took place just after 9:00 pm Eastern Time at Reagan National Airport outside Washington.
39% : Their policy was horrible, and their politics was even worse," he said. Trump also falsely claimed to have once again raised standards for Air Traffic Controllers by signing a memorandum upon taking office which shuttered a longstanding effort at the Federal Aviation Administration to recruit people with disabilities to serve in roles having nothing to do with Air Traffic Control.
37% : After the moment of silence ended, Trump called the crash "a moment of anguish" for the country and said there is now a "systematic and comprehensive investigation" underway led by the National Transportation Safety Board and announced he was appointing Christopher Rocheleau as the acting FAA administrator.
36% : Vice President JD Vance, who joined Trump at the briefing, also took time to blame diversity initiatives for the crash and suggested that the FAA had been lowering standards because the government has been attempting to hire non-white people for ATC positions.
26% : While the president would go on to further blame the Biden administration's transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, for the efforts to hire people with disabilities, in fact the policy had been in place since 2013 without interruption, including during the period Trump previously served as president from 2017 to 2021.
26% : At the same time he attacked the prior administration and diversification efforts for the crash, Trump also said he wasn't sure that the Air Traffic Control system workers involved did anything wrong with respect to the incident last night.

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