Trump blames DEI after tragic plane crash. This is our president. | Opinion

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Trump pushed that convenient incongruity from the White House even as first responders were still pulling bodies from the frigid waters of the Potomac River after a U.S. Army helicopter collided Wednesday night with an American Airlines jet.
46% : If Trump wanted answers, he'd be asking those guys.
46% : And today's circumstances are DEI because Trump had plenty of success on the campaign trail last year railing about the dangers of encouraging workplaces to hire people who don't look exactly like him and his supporters.
43% : That's what Trump calls "common sense.
38% : In the four years from 2021 until last week, Trump campaigned for reelection strenuously on the suggestion that things were always better when he held office and that only he could fix problems he blamed on the presidents who preceded and replaced him - Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
38% : This echoes back to how Trump treated the unfolding crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic during the final year of his first term.
33% : This is as close to the truth - as Trump sees it in his distorted vision of our world - as he gets.
30% : Trump doesn't know.
28% : Trump responded with typical hostility and disdain to questions about how he could reach that conclusion when so many of the facts from this tragic incident were still unknown.
27% : And Trump always needs someone else to blame when he's in charge in a time of crisis.
26% : Trump didn't want answers.
25% : Trump on Thursday, in the immediate aftermath of a deadly air traffic collision in Washington, D.C., returned to first-term form when he reflexively rejected any possible accountability for anything awful that happened on his watch.
24% : Our president was on social media, making things worse Over on Truth Social, the president's social media website, Trump was asking questions in a 12:19 a.m. post Thursday, wondering why the helicopter pilots didn't avoid the crash and questioning whether air traffic controllers made the right moves.
22% : Trump's not just another troll on social media.
17% : This is President Trump in times of tragedy As we often heard during Trump's first term, this "is a feature, not a bug" in how he approaches challenges and culpability.
17% : Trump also had trouble dealing with time as a linear concept: The FAA's DEI policy was in place since 2013, when Obama was president, and was not rescinded during Trump's first four years in office.
16% : President Trump rushes to add confusion to a DC plane crash With no survivors expected, 67 people likely lost their lives in that crash.
12% : Opinion:Trump didn't wait to be sworn in to start breaking his campaign promises to you "No, I don't take responsibility at all," Trump replied then as he attempted (and failed) to shift blame to "a set of circumstances" in which the virus developed and spread.
10% : But Trump has already arrived at a self-serving conclusion - Obama and Biden are to blame, along with policies that push for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in workplaces, such as the Army, airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration.
10% : Here, Trump tried to tap dance around liability but tripped up at his White House podium, blaming Obama and Biden for encouraging diversity in hiring at the FAA while insisting he wasn't blaming the air traffic controllers on duty during Wednesday's tragedy.

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