Trump Calls Out Buttigieg's 'Bullsh*t',' Biden-Era DEI After Horrific Crash

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : "I changed the Obama standards from very mediocre at best to extraordinary," Trump said, adding: You remember that.
66% : On his second day in office, Trump took executive action directing Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and now-acting FAA Commissioner Christopher Rocheleau -- whose appointment he announced at the briefing -- to return to "merit-based hiring" for all positions, including air traffic controllers.
52% : " Trump said Buttigieg ran the Department of Transportation "right into the ground with his diversity.
46% : " Trump highlighted a January 14 Fox News article titled "FAA's diversity push includes focus on hiring people with 'severe intellectual' and 'psychiatric' disabilities," detailing the FAA's DEI push in the final days of the Biden administration.
39% : Trump addressed members of the media in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room on Thursday, hours after the crash that left no survivors, killing 64 aboard American Airlines flight 5342 and 3 servicemembers aboard the Black Hawk.
35% : Trump hammered Buttigieg, who oversaw the FAA as transportation secretary before Trump was sworn in as president just ten days ago. "Do you know how badly everything's run since he's run the Department of Transportation?
30% : Trump then paraphrased the subheading, "FAA says people with severe disabilities are most underrepresented segment of the workforce," contending that the Biden administration wanted to put DEI hires in the roles of "air traffic controllers.
17% : He's a disaster," Trump said.
9% : Trump then blasted Biden for bringing standards to what he says is a record low.
3% : " Trump also had heavy criticism for Biden and former President Barack Obama, saying Obama's standards for the FAA were "very mediocre" before he assumed office in 2017.

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